Funding Your Ministry: A Field Guide for Raising Personal Support - Softcover

Morton, Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1631466844 ISBN 13: 9781631466847

Publisher: NavPress, 2017

Synopsis

An In-Depth, Biblical Guide for Successfully Raising Personal Support
Break through the fundraising fears and financial barriers keeping you from full-time ministry. Funding Your Ministry will answer your questions and put you on the biblical path for recruiting and maintaining donor support.

Updated, Third Edition
International funding coach Scott Morton has expanded his popular resource with new sections on:

• social media,
• email best practices,
• proven principles for gospel-workers around the globe,
• stewardship and budget management, and
• a leader’s guide for encouraging fundraisers.

Funding Your Ministry will help you become a joyful and courageous fundraiser, develop a Biblical view of requesting support, build long-term donor relationships, overcome fundraising blind spots, strengthen your stewardship, and reach over 100% of your goal.

About this title

From the Back Cover

A Biblical Strategy to Finance Your Ministry
How many potential missionaries never reach their field because raising support seems too difficult? How many Christian leaders abandon their ministry before it starts because of fundraising frustration?

It happens too often. But it doesn’t have to.

Funding Your Ministry helps ministry workers and their partners break through the financial barriers holding them back from full-time ministry. Whether you are experienced at fundraising or just starting out, Funding Your Ministry will help you

• discover the biblical path for recruiting and retaining donor support,
• develop a strategy to reach full support that lasts long-term,
• avoid the common pitfalls that inhibit your fundraising, and
• learn how to manage your money well.

Both fundraisers and their supporters will gain valuable insights from Scott Morton as he shares his own struggles, failures, and victories in raising support. Learn from his experience in this comprehensive guide and find the financial freedom you need to respond fully to God’s call.

“One of the most practical and needful books that I have ever seen.” ―Dr. Howard Foltz, president and founder of Accelerating International Mission Strategies

“If you raise support, then Funding Your Ministry is a must-read.” ―Ellis Goldstein, director of ministry partner development for Cru

About the Author

SCOTT MORTON serves with The Navigators as Vice President of Development for U.S. ministries and is a member of the National Leadership Team. He graduated from Iowa State University in technical journalism and worked in newspaper advertising before joining the Navigator staff in 1970. Previous assignments include Columbia, Missouri; Iowa City, Iowa; Madison, Wisconsin; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and short-term ministries in Asia and Europe. He has served in Development since 1985 and has been on the National Leadership Team since 2004.

Scott and Alma met the Lord in The Navigators ministry at Iowa State. They have been married since 1964 and have two married daughters, one married son and four grandchildren.

The Mortons enjoy baseball (Scott was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles and Minnesota Twins), bird-watching, antiquing and helping people grow in their spiritual journeys through small group Bible studies and one-on-one mentoring. Scott also enjoys writing, having published Funding Your Ministry (Whether You’re Gifted or Not), a book to help missionaries raise financial support, Down to Earth Discipling, a realistic approach to sharing one’s faith with others and Tired of Do-List Christianity? which helps debunk the misconceptions that hold back spiritual growth and steal our joy.

About this edition

• Publisher: NavPress
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1631466844
• ISBN 13: 9781631466847
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272