{"id":284,"date":"2024-09-17T13:35:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T13:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jpbmetal.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2024-09-18T10:59:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T10:59:33","slug":"how-to-develop-your-generosity-strategy-for-digital-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jpbmetal.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/17\/how-to-develop-your-generosity-strategy-for-digital-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Develop Your Generosity Strategy For Digital Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nHello______, this Chestly Lunday. _______ connected us because they thought you might resonate with what my wife and I are doing in ministry. We are looking to build a Mission support team for this ministry, I was wondering if you would be willing to sit down over a cup of coffee and allow me to share with you our vision for the ministry. If it resonates with you, I would love you to consider financially partnering with us, and if not, I would love to share with you so you can share with friends about what we are doing. Would you be willing to meet with me? (shut up until they answer, Chestly!) Awesome! I have three times available Thursday @ 9 am, 11 am, and next Monday at noon. Which would work for you? (shut up again) Great, do you mind if I get your email and send you a calendar invite for that day? (if they are squeamish, then let them off the hook, they are not a person of peace for me) Thanks, can’t wait!<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nA Mission Pitch<\/b><\/h5>\n
This is a clearly laid-out presentation script of what you will say to prospective partners once you are in front of them. Today, I rarely do coffee with these people. Zoom is very easy. Unless they are a huge donor, I do zoom. If they have very deep pockets I have been known to fly to meet with them. I would suggest you do the same.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhen it comes to your Mission Pitch, it will align with your Pitch Deck… It is the words that you will say as they watch your Pitch Deck.<\/div>\nA Pitch Deck<\/b><\/h5>\n
A Pitch Deck is a Visual Slide show that outlines your reason for asking for funds. You need the following for a successful Deck:<\/div>\nThe Cover Slide<\/b><\/h5>\n
As someone that is asking for missionary funding, I love to give them an amazing picture of my family. This meeting is about them loving you and the mission God is sending you on.<\/div>\nThe Overview<\/b><\/h5>\n
The overview is like the elevator pitch– if you had ten seconds to say what you do, this short pithy sentence would display clarity of mission, swagger, and Passion. As Donald Miller says, “It needs to pass the Caveman grunt test.”<\/div>\nThe Opportunity<\/b><\/h5>\n
This is your opportunity to share the missional opportunity where God is asking you to serve. Share the potential of your mission field. Visually communicate the trends in this field. Share with them your people of peace, and the digital places you can find them.<\/div>\nThe Problem<\/b><\/h5>\n
Share why they need you and people like you on the mission field to serve them. Share what your people of peace need and what the church is not providing them.<\/div>\nThe Solution<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is your strategy to reach these people? Share how reaching people the way you want to reach them will result in more Jesus followers.<\/div>\nThe Traction<\/b><\/h5>\n
Share with your potential partners why the evidence points to you being a success when you serve them. Stories of previous success are great content here!<\/div>\nThe Person of Peace<\/b><\/h5>\n
Go deep with them about your heart for the person God has placed on your heart to reach with the Gospel. Share with them your Person of Peace Profile, and the study you have around this person.<\/div>\nThe Financial Goal<\/b><\/h5>\n
There should be a Goal for funds, and a breakdown of the use of funds. You don’t need to be overly detailed, but let them know the expenses you do incur on a monthly basis so they can see it laid out. They will know that your number is not unrealistic\u2013unless, of course, you are asking for a G6. Actually, the opposite is true too. Most of us aren’t asking for a private jet. The truth is we often undersell our needs to people out of fear. The best givers know this, and actually, see it as a matter of stewardship, to be honest, and accurate with what you need. So if you need $100,000 because you live in an urban setting, DO NOT ask for $40,000.<\/div>\nThe Ask<\/b><\/h5>\n
When you make the ask, make it clearly and boldly. Also, set it up as subscription-based giving with three options. I like $100, $150, and $200 as my go-to, but tune into your intuition on a person’s economic status and don’t be afraid to ask for more when you sense the leading to.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMake sure to have a link to your giving page in the deck. This is important as they need a quick way to get there while you are presenting. I like to send them the link via zoom in the conversation right away.<\/div>\n7. Keep your donors in the loop.<\/b><\/h4>\n
Make sure to Create a Template for a Newsletter. Below is a picture of the template exercise we did when I first was trained on how to create a fundraising newsletter.<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nMake sure you have a segment of ministry activity, a spot for a praise report or vision casting, a quick ask for something ministry-related, personal family news, prayer requests, and a Thank you with your ministry info in your letters. AND DON’T FORGET A PICTURE! This is so important as it shows you doing what you said you were going to do. I like doing paper newsletters now because it seems like extra care. In a world full of digital technology, you can stand out by going analog when analog has more value. In this case, it does.<\/div>\nThis is a big step towards knowing you will be able to do ministry for the long haul. Your Salary is the number one most important expense you have, and you need to do the work to allow people to partner with you in ministry. It’s you on the ground, but it is all of us working together to see the gospel reach everyone.<\/div>\n\n***PRO TIP***\u00a0<\/b>Don’t fundraise for your church plant until you have some wins under your belt. The expectations for a missionary are MUCH different than a church planter’s. People have been known to fund a missionary for years without the missionary seeing one conversion because they understand that the missionary is there to plant seeds and till the ground before they ever see a harvest. Most people see church planting as a start-up investment. When you fundraise for a church plant be ready to share and meet metrics.\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhen you are ready, you can use the above system for building an Investment Network for your church plant as well. This will give you time to create a solid business plan, a larger network, and a core group for your new faith community. Use your newsletter to ask for funding for expenses until you are ready for church planting investments.\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nCreate a Generosity Discipleship System<\/b><\/h2>\n
Most people take two years before they start giving when they begin following Jesus and participating in a faith community. We don’t have to wait that long before we<\/div>\n1. Invite your people to start small and start soon<\/b><\/h4>\n
By sharing content and inviting micro-donations, or one-time events where people can help in time of need, people are given the first step into Generosity Discipleship. This is important as the size of the gift is irrelevant. The win is that they gave.<\/div>\n2. Celebrate their first gift, and invite them into the next step of “missional giving”<\/b><\/h4>\n
Create a workflow process that people can be placed into if they give for the first time. Just like we count first-time attendees, we need to be vigilant, maybe even more so, to count first-time givers. When we build a culture of celebration around generosity, we create a generous community. What gets celebrated, gets emulated. But don’t stop there share the problem you solving and share with them an opportunity to be a part of the solution. Don’t talk about general fund giving, talk about the fact that $150 will take a child off the street in our city today, and invite them into giving towards the mission of the church rather than to the church.<\/div>\n3. Celebrate their step into “missional giving,” and invite them into “Community Giving”<\/b><\/h4>\n
Once, they give to the Mission then, again thank them. It’s their hard-earned money. They realized that they should give, and not only do we have a duty to steward their gift well, but we also have an obligation to steward the givers well too. Once we say thank you, again, call them into deeper levels of the generous community by inviting them to take a leap of faith and give to the general fund for the good of the community. Yes, this fund goes to paying the bills and salaries a church has, but by following the simple “thank yous” you will see your church’s financial picture thrive.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n4. Regularly and spontaneously say thank you.\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo generosity system is complete without spontaneous “thank yous.” These acts of gratitude and appreciation make it a culture where people know they are loved and valued. Don’t forget to make it a regular habit to say thank you to those who laid down their own financial comfort to say yes to the call to give for the good of others. I love a donor celebration annually!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n5. Invite your Spiritually Gifted People into “Visionary Giving”<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLast but not least, when you have enough people and you aren’t hustling, it is time to build a network of Visionary Givers so that we can fund the vision. Call your spiritually gifted people into the work and pleasure of Visionary giving!<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChestly Lunday<\/strong>\u00a0is highly regarded as an international speaker, coach, and consultant helping people defeat futility in life and the workplace. Having given over 1000 unique presentations, he has worked with denominations like the Southern Baptist Convention, The Assemblies of God, the Christian Reformed Church, and The Reformed Church in America as well as multiple businesses. Chestly has over a decade of developing leaders from all walks of life. Chestly is on the cutting edge of innovation in the religious non- profit sector, co-founding Digital Church Network, training and connecting Digital Church leaders all around the world. Chestly\u2019s insights help leaders facing the prospect of irrelevance in their ministries by helping them build a cohesive strategy around digital community and discipleship.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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