Author: Charles LaFond

The Daily Sip reflects on the leadership of our church through the lens of St Bernard of Clairvaux

Sure.  Preach about love.  But is a plan so very unspiritual? By acting out now to raise endowments and major gifts, might we be able to help midwife the Church’s molting with resources She might one day need?

Jesus did not want us to be Christians.  Jesus wanted us to be kind humans – our best selves – life abundant

Make the time.  You will NEVER find the time.

Anesthetizing my pain with busy-ness means I do not FEEL my pain or FACE my demons.  But both lay waiting for me.

The key to raising major gifts is to avoid standing over, beneath or against your donor and instead, stand WITH your donor.

Day after day I write to raise money and there is one word I use with the greatest of care when writing about raising money in our churches and our social profit agencies.  It is a very important word and one I now commend to you. A gift of sorts.  

Might we renovate how we see fundraising in our churches?