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Calling All Christians for One Christian Calling: Siblings for Christ

April 18, 2013

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telephone, AT & T

Christians talk about hearing the call of God on their lives. There is the missionary call, the call to ministry, a call to stay at home, a call to a profession. The longer I live and the more I read Scripture the clearer it is to me that God gives every Christian one call – […]

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Reconciling Fear and Faith (Missionary Guest Post)

November 23, 2012

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What's looming around the corner for you?

Note: this post is written by a missionary appointee friend of mine. When God places a challenging situation in front of us, the Bible tells us to have faith. However, our natural inclination is to be afraid. How do we reconcile how we are supposed to feel with how we actually feel? In the Church […]

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Is Being Thankful Biblical, Cultural or Something We Learn From Our Parents?

November 21, 2012

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Thank you letters

It’s difficult to sit here the day before Thanksgiving and not be tempted to write a post about thankfulness.  Being thankful is so central to missionary fundraising, support raising, MPD – call it whatever you want – that if we ignore it we will not be successful in our ministries. Image by vistamommy via Wikimedia […]

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3 Ways to Fail at Social Media and Missionary Support Raising

August 9, 2012

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Fail

Failure is not bad.  We learn from failure, but that doesn’t mean that we have to plan for it. But that is exactly what we do when we have good intentions with social media and then never follow through with it.  Here are three ways to fail in using social media with your support raising […]

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Social Media and Missionary Support Raising – Featuring Twitter

August 6, 2012

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Twitter logo

Previous Posts in This Series Social Media and Missionary Support Raising – The Basics Social Media and Missionary Support Raising – A Facebook Strategy Continuing on the roll of opening your social media accounts… I would suggest using a second medium such as Twitter or LinkedIn to complement your Facebook. Using Twitter for Fundraising  Ah, […]

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