A ministry leader friend of mine (thanks Darrell! @ www.aimright.org) recently gave me Gordon MacDonald’s four-week devotional study entitled, generosity: moving toward life that is truly life (check it out here). As I’ve been reading and reflecting, I am more convinced than ever before that Jesus was the most generous person who ever lived.
To the question at the end of Day 3: What are some examples of how Jesus modeled generosity to His followers? I wrote the following:
“Jesus was ge...
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Jonathan Roe, in his blog post on February 4th, talked about a change coming to the MIF teaching model which began last month. Well, let me tell you that what we hoped would happen in these calls, indeed has!
MIF has moved from its bimonthly lab format to a personal coaching call format, in order to help each ministry apply the teaching material in its own unique way to its own unique organization. And the ministries are loving it!
One of the first things I noticed, is that other staff are p...
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I was reading a book recently written by Andy Senovitz titled “Word of Mouth Marketing.” In the book Sernovitz explains and illustrates how the world’s most respected and profitable companies get their best customers for free through the power of word of mouth.
He defines word of mouth marketing as: 1. Giving people a reason to talk about your stuff, 2. Making it easier for that conversation to take place. Sernovitz says even simpler: it’s everything you can do to get people talking.
H...
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Mission Increase’s upcoming March workshop, ‘Grant Writing: It’s a Partnership’ suggests that traditional granting activity is not unlike a game of Twister whereby we twist and contort our non-profit programs and priorities in the hope of convincing the foundation board to give us money.
The March workshop digs into a wholly different type of grant writing centered on transformational partnerships which glorify the Lord, reveal His purpose and provision, and deepen the impact on the shared ...
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Jonathan Martin, pastor of Global Outreach Ministry at Good Shepherd Community Church in Oregon, wrote a remarkable book called Giving Wisely. Tucked away on page 176 is the radical story of a young woman who worked in Alaska for twelve months in harsh conditions to raise money to support a missionary who was called to serve in a Russian orphanage. You may contend there’s nothing radical about that story. What if I told you that she was the missionary who received the support? Then it might soun...
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