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Photos
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- A large, wide photo that gives a sense of your context, city, location, or mission.
- An outdoor shot of your city skyline or campus buildings works great here. You might have other creative ideas.
- Wide, horizontal landscape photos work best. Use large, high-resolution photos. Minimum width is 2000pixels wide. (newer iPhone photos are 4000 pixels wide).
- We recommend using the same photo as your printed Missionary Profile Card to give a matching feel to donors.
Where Else Your Photos Can Appear
Your photos appear primarily on your missionary profile.
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Descriptions
Missional Title or Role
- Appears below your photo
- Very short: 2-8 words on your title, role
- Use the most "MTD friendly" description, not necessarily an official job title (not "Staff Level 2")
- For most cases you'll capitalize each word as if it's a title.
- e.g. "Campus Missionary" "Pastor" "Associate Pastor in Missional Church" "Church Planting Pastor with Evangelism Focus" "Missionary to the Japanese People" "Minister, Gospel-Teller, Apostle, Bible-Believer"
- Couples can be creative with this space. Some may choose to list collectively e.g. "Campus Missionaries, "Missionary Family" or specifically separately "Campus Minister & Women's Minister" like a caption.
About My Ministry
2-3 short paragraphs about your ministry: the need, the answer to the need, your role and heart.
- Describe your vision and ministry role for financial & prayer partners.
- Two paragraphs is ideal because it looks nice. Aim for 2-4 sentences each, or 4 to 8 sentences total.
- Did you have a profile on the GCM website? This is nearly double the space, so feel free to use it.
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- Give a summary of what you do.
- Include key titles (e.g. “Director of Worship & Outreach.”). Add concrete responsibilities or specialties (“small group coaching” or “evangelism specialist”).
- Mention the mission field or need and include the gospel (“40,000 student mission field who need to hear the good news of Christ”).
- Describe your heart or vision "Jason desires that every person in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago would know the love of Jesus Christ"
- Spouse in ministry can include another paragraph to describe what the other does.
- Write in the third person. (Jason does... he likes to... not "I do, I like to...)
- Avoid:
- Local church jargon that might be hard to understand for a wider Christian audience (e.g. “canvas group”)
- Listing everything you do; choose key responsibilities.
- Uncommon abbreviations.
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Missional Location
| Missional Location | 1-5 words | University of Michigan | The default comes from your local church or ministry in our database. It can be overridden for individual missionaries as needed. | Flexible description of mission field as described for financial and prayer partners. This is often university, community, urban center, institution, people group. It is not your church or ministry name—this should appear as a partner card lower on your profile. Examples:
Tip: While this works well for campus ministers and metro areas, not everyone has a clear separate Missional Location. Leave it blank to make it disappear. |
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Tip: this is different than your Missional Address, which is a City, ST or Country that comes from your linked church or ministry.
Links to Social Media and Websites
You can add links to many popular sites that you use to keep financial and prayer partners updated.
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See Also Online and Social Media Policy for helpful set of guidelines on living our ministry life and identity on social media.
More Tips and Questions
Match Your Web Profile and Missionary Profile Card
The missionary profile card (ordered on the CopyCat website) is designed to point new financial partners to your web profile. We think using the same (or similar) photos in both places will help financial partners instantly recognize you.
What You Can't Change
Fund Number
The fund number for the ministry account appears on your profile. It can't be changed. Except for rare circumstances, families share a ministry fund number even if they work distinct roles.
Question or problem? Contact Missionary Resources.
Missional Address
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| Missional Address | City, ST | Ann Arbor, MI | Your local church or ministry address in our database. | This uses the address of the church or ministry you work with. It does not use a personal address. |
Local Church or Ministry Cards—Logo and Description
Every missionary or ministry web profile shows the churches or ministries that you are affiliated with. Reliant now calls these "church partners" or "ministry partners."
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During the website preview, your church or ministry description may not be filled in or may need to be corrected. Contact the leader who is responsible for that at your location and send them these instructions. |
Other Frequently Asked Questions
What size photos should I use?
Use the largest or highest quality photo you have for each one. Our web software will automatically size it correctly for a large screen or a phone.
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Current iPhones take photos that are 4000+ pixels wide.
How do I get the printed Missionary Profile Card?
You order them separately on our new CopyCat print-to-order site. You'll have to upload your photos separately there (sorry)—it's a completely different system.
We suggest uploading the same photos in both places to make your printed profile card resemble your web profile.
Help!
Having trouble with a photo or profile?
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