Mission Connection Magazine
Saving WEF Costs Via Electronic Communication
A Thank-you Note from NMI Director Daniel Ketchum
Your NMI office team recently completed the annual budgeting process for fiscal year 2010-11. Because of your willingness to move from print to electronic communication, we are saving nearly $100,000 in WEF funds per year. That is correct: per year! This cost reduction includes printing, envelopes, and postage costs for Mission Connection, HeartLine, and other resources.
More: this cost savings does not reflect the current WEF PLUS mailings that we are now able to send electronically and directly to local churches. Print, envelope, and postage costs for six WEF PLUS mailings to 4,800 churches in the USA/Canada Region alone would have totaled at least an additional $20,000. Now we are able to send this Challenge 2010 information electronically, directly, rapidly, globally, and with significant savings.
Thank you! We are very grateful that you and your teams are moving with us to adopt this more efficient, more rapid , and less costly method of communication. We understand that some of our churches need additional time and training to receive resources by electronic distribution. We will continue to be patient. This is our future.
In some cases where it is not possible to receive electronic communication, we have asked district leadership to serve as liaisons. Some already have plans in place. If such is your situation, please contact your district NMI president to ask for assistance.
Thank you so much for your gracious cooperation and networking. You are practicing strategic, missional leadership. May God bless you and all of us together as we make Christlike disciples in the nations.
Check Those Addresses!It has come to our attention that a number of mailings to NMI ministries are still going to the old “Paseo” address. While they are forwarded, this will not continue so we wanted to remind you of the mailings and where to send them. If you are not the person responsible for some of these mailings, will you verify that the person(s) who are do have the correct addresses?
If you—or any from your church—have forms with old addresses on them, would you please replace them with new forms available from the NMI Web site?
If you are in doubt as to where something should be mailed, the best place to look would be in the 2009–2013 NMI Handbook and Constitution.
General NMI Mail, NMI Statistical Report Forms, Deputation Coordinator
Global NMI Office
17001 Prairie Star Parkway
Lenexa, KS 66220
All Money Sent to the Global Treasury Services (for the U.S.A.)
Global Treasury Services
PO Box 843116,
Kansas City, MO 64184-3116
(For monetary gifts and other mailings from world areas other than the U.S.A., please follow the instructions specific to your field and region.)
Spanish NMI Handbook and Constitution Available
The 2009–2013 NMI Handbook and Constitution and the lyrics and music of the quadrennial theme song have been translated into Spanish and are available for free download on the Spanish resource page of the NMI Web site.
2010 NMI District Convention Resource DVDs May Be Purchased If you would like to purchase additional copies of the 2010 NMI District Convention Resource DVD, please contact Darryl Bennett at dgbennett@nazarene.org or 913-577-2973. They cost $1.00 each (that includes shipping).
New ‘Funding the Mission’ Contribution Tool Is Up and Running
We've recently added a “Make a Contribution” page to the Funding the Mission Web site! You can now both track and allocate funds for your church's annual giving goals, all within the Funding the Mission application!
To use the tool, log in at www.fundingthemission.org and select the “Make a Contribution” link in the left-hand toolbar. You will notice several ways to allocate your church's giving. There are fields for WEF giving (both general and campaign specific), Pensions and Benefits (P&B) USA, and numerous Ten Percent Missions Specials. To the right of the contribution itemizer, you will see additional tools that summarize both what has been given in this specific contribution and how much your church needs to contribute to be on track for WEF and P&B giving for 2010.
Although the tool is still being developed and perfected, we have made the most impactful features available immediately. The most common Ten Percent Missions Specials are available for donations, and, in the near future, we plan to make even more Missions Specials available to expand the giving options of your church.
Keep in mind, the giving tool at web.nazarene.org is still available; however, the new online tool at www.fundingthemission.org will help streamline the giving processes of your church by having fewer log-ins to enter and fewer Web pages to navigate. By making the contributions process simpler, your church can focus more of its energies and resources on fulfilling both the local and global mission of the Church of the Nazarene: to make Christlike disciples in the nations.
If you have any questions about the “Make a Contribution” tool, please contact Stewardship Ministries at (800) 544-8413 or via e-mail at stewardship@nazarene.org.
Stewardship Ministries
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Bible Podcasts Available Free
There is a daily podcast available through iTunes called Daily Audio Bible. At no charge, you can download a daily Bible reading to your MP3 device or computer and hear the Word being read. Each 15-20-minute reading includes a section from the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs, in sequence.
The Daily Audio Bible resource is available in multiple languages—Hindi, Japanese, Spanish, as well as a version for children and one for youth. There are more HERE. And there are resources such as printable daily reading plans.
In most of the podcasts, the reader invites people to join “the community” around the podcasts, which includes an online prayer room and a phone line where people can call in prayer requests and pray for one another, annual gatherings in different countries of people who listen to the podcasts (such as a men’s conference in Wales), and some who are helping to plant a church out of this virtual community. They also are selling a blend of coffee to raise money to help victims of human trafficking, so it is more than just Bible reading.
For people who regularly use iPods, this might be a useful tool for people to get into the Word.
Selected Giving Receipts for June 2010
The Selected Receipts Report for July 2010 is available for your information by clicking HERE. Thank you for your faithful and generous giving.
Mission Connection • September 2010
| Daniel D. Ketchum |
Darryl Bennett |
Gail L. Sawrie |
| Global NMI Director |
Technical Designer |
Editor |
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