- Signup for Fall Learning Community 2018 UPDATE: Due to the high interest in learning communities we’ve opened a 2nd learning community for the same dates, about an hour later each day. The signup link is below. If you’re thinking about joining, signup today before this one fills up as well! For the past three years I’ve been researching how ministries can […]
- Grieving the Current State of Support Raising As we enter the season of Lent we come together to mourn the current world. Sunday and the Resurrection are coming, but they’re not here yet. Support Raising is broken. The way we raise money for missions and church planting is rife with systemic injustice. Women and minority staff continue to struggle, and are told that […]
- Do #BlackLivesMatter in Support Raising? Does the message our Support Raising systems send match the truth of the Gospel? Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Sandra Bland. Ferguson. New York. Charleston. The list goes on and on. The Black community is asking our nation: “Do our lives matter?”. For the most part, the Evangelical church has been silent in response. Yes, we […]
- Justice in Funding Mission Conference Recap Two weeks ago over 50 leaders from ministries around the country gathered in Memphis, Tennessee for the first Justice in Funding Mission CCDA Pre-Conference. We spent the day learning, lamenting, and dreaming of a new future together. This post will recap the conference and provide some of the resources that were given out that day. […]
- The Next Stage in the Journey A year and a half ago I started a blog series on equitable funding for multiethnic ministry. After years of listening to my ethnic minority staff friends share how support raising keeps Parachurch ministries white, I wanted to do something about it. I didn’t have answers, but I had a blog and I hoped to […]