The Cost of Caring: Service Among Survivors of Trauma
Trauma is the lasting emotional response that often results from living through a distressing event. Experiencing a traumatic event can harm a person'…
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Preparing Today’s Missionaries for Practical Peacemaking
Conflict between committed, passionate global workers is common, and unresolved conflicts threaten team dynamics, fruitful ministry, and field longevi…
Developing Best Training Practices for Retention: What Current Attrition Research
New data is available on why missionaries leave the field and return home. How do we put it into practice in preparing new missionaries
Funnels and Loops: How Mass Communication is Accelerating Movements
By Josiah Palusky | Innovative strategies are linking new and existing methods of evangelism and discipleship in ways not previously explored. In man…
What Is the Minimum Training Needed to Be Effective?
What defines effective? Obviously that they have the money needed. But it ALSO includes a healthy perspective of inviting partners and not begging for…
I won’t come down…
This is part one of a two part article series. This first article shares the support raisers experience. The second article shares a bigger vision and…
What I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Development Professional
I am not so dissimilar to other fundraising professionals of my baby boomer generation. Most of us fell into our fundraising positions because we had …
Seeing Ministry Partners as People – or Targets?
A few years ago, a prayer formed in my head and heart, ”Lord Jesus, help me see the person, not the package! You always did that when you were here …
How We Train Our People for Ministry Partnership Matters
As we seek to help our new and veteran ministry workers become and remain spiritually healthy, vision-driven, and fully funded, how we train our peopl…
MPD and Non-MPD Staff: A Clear Call and United Front
When talking about support raising, I try whenever possible to stay away from the words “fundraising” and “donor“when describing support raisi…