Wanting to be the best parent that I possibly can be, I know that I need to play a vital role in my child’s development. I can’t sit idly by expecting them to become something great if I am not active in their lives and providing opportunities for them to grow and develop.
It’s true that raising children can be difficult at times, but it’s not an option for me to say it is too difficult and to not even try. And it’s also not an option to take a sabbatical and let someone else assume my resp
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I had an interesting experience today. It left me feeling raw. As I was looking for something on the internet, I got sidetracked with news updates on Haiti. I watched this video followed by this video. Tears were streaming down my face as the human and emotional toll of the disaster struck me – deeply – unlike before.
Later in the day (video-watching and nose-blowing behind me), I noticed this posting on Katya Andresen’s Non-Profit Marketing blog. Of course I was curious...
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In my position as National Senior Giving and Training Officer for Mission Increase Foundation, I am charged with coaching our Giving and Training Officer (GTO) staff. I have the privilege of reading all their weekly reports in which I see their great care and concern for you as a ministry leader and student of Transformational Giving.
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"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ" Philippians 2:5
How do we emulate the "mind of Christ"? In a paper I recently read (which I mentioned in a recent post) entitled Wesley's Prescription for Making Disciples of Jesus Christ: Insights for the 21st Century Church, the author Randy Maddox shares this insight about how Wesley thought about having a "mind of Christ": that it's "not unilaterally infused by God at one's conversion.
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When someone first hears a presentation on Transformational Giving, no response is more common (and discouraging) than this:
“Oh, I see what you are saying. We already do this at my organization, because we already treat all our donors like friends.”
No, no, no.
No!
So you don’t take a mercenary approach to fundraising, wherein you conceive of your donors as walking ATM-machines...
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