Make it Transformational: A Blog for Champion Discipleship

Christian Leadership Alliance is a great organization serving the needs of Christians and the ministries they have been called to throughout the nation.  I was fortunate enough to not only attend, but to teach a workshop, at the San Diego conference this past week.  So many great people from wonderful Kingdom building organizations, together learning and growing in order to enhance their respective missions for the Lord.

It was awesome!

Since coming from the Christian non-profit development world to MIF more than 2 years ago, I have been so excited about Transformational Giving and what it means for the donors, volunteers and staff of Christian organizations who are engaging in its principles.  It truly is a breadth of fresh air to be teaching scriptural methods of raising funds to Christians wanting to follow God’s lead and disciple His people in the process.

What I found while attending other workshops at the conference was that the traditional/transactional teaching was no longer exciting to me, as it had been for nearly 30 years of my career.  Viewing it through my lens, it seemed so contrived, so formulaic and so focused on getting a check.  I kept wondering how God would bless those efforts and what He might think of the techniques. 

I was honored to be able to teach a workshop entitled “Coaching Your Champions.”  It was the first time most of the attendees had heard any of the transformational giving teaching that MIF is known for.  Many were excited to be hearing something different than the traditional/transactional process to fundraising.  Teaching they knew to be God inspired.  I was thrilled to be bringing this “new approach” to them and humbled by their realization of its impact.

Where is God in your fundraising?  Is He there as an active partner and teacher?  Are you following His principles?  Or have you put Him on the shelf of your boardroom to be acknowledged and thanked each month?

I want to encourage you to learn more about Transformational Giving from a scriptural perspective.  Attend our workshops and webinars in your area at no cost to you or your organization.  I hope you will be inspired by this “new approach.”

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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