Mission Connection Magazine
Faith Promise Basics
Faith promise is giving by trusting in God’s covenants with us. Faith promise commitments (not pledges) are given systematically for global mission, rather than merely twice a year. Easter and Thanksgiving offerings are included in this giving plan. For faith promise, people pray about the amount they should give for global mission (beyond their tithe). They give weekly, biweekly, monthly, or a one-time gift.
Faith promise giving goals should be projected exclusively for mission purposes around the world, on the district, and through the local church. Churches discover that they raise or exceed their mission goal through faith promise giving.
How to Set Faith Promise Giving Goals
Funding the Mission, the new giving plan, is based on current income. No World Evangelism Fund (WEF) allocation will be assigned to local churches. Even without a predetermined budget allocation, local churches can prepare to participate in our global mission by budgeting and planning. Here are a few suggestions that will help to set faith promise goals for the next year:
- Ask your pastor and council to discuss mission giving goals for the next year.
- Estimate the total your church will give for all purposes during the current year.
- Calculate 5.5 percent of this total; this is your estimated WEF goal.
- Estimate the total your church will give for global mission during the current year.
- Compare this amount to the 5.5 percent goal you estimated in #3 above.
- Remember that 5.5 percent or 5.7 percent are minimum goals; trust God and add a faith margin.
- Pray and believe that your people will give more (not less) for mission than before.
- Set and promote your goal for the next year.
- Involve every family in praying and preparing for global giving along with every Church of the Nazarene around the world.
- Trust God’s promise to “do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us” (Ephesians 3:20).
Daniel D. Ketchum
Global NMI Director
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