So the economy sneezes and church fundraising catches a cold. Missionaries and church planters are getting pneumonia. But it shouldn’t be this way. The vast majority of Americans who had jobs last year are still working hard at those jobs this year, and being paid as much or more. Forget about the folks who are out looking for work. There’s more than enough people still earning full pay who can finance the work of God on this earth.
The real problem with church fundraising is that too many of our leaders are afraid to “make an ask” because we are afraid we’ll turn them off, and worse than that, lose them. I say “we” because I am one of them, but after thirty years of ministry, I have figured out that people are just as likely to rise to a financial challenge as they are to run from it. Besides, as John Maxwell has famously said, “You choose who you lose.” And James said, “you have not because you ask not.” Now there’s a creed for fundraising in a tight economy.
Jim Walters
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