About this time 4 years ago I received a huge packet in the mail regarding my summer project to Sao Paulo Brazil. Inside was a mess of papers and information about raising my financial support, from brainstorming names to writing letters and making phone calls.
This year, when students were accepted to a summer project, they receive an e-mail with most of this information. Tomorrow, I am doing a live MPD Webinar for summer project students. Donors can even give online now using the same website as Campus Crusade staff.
If each of the 85 students send in an average of 25 donation checks... that's over 2,000 checks to process in our office! Eeesh. Maybe in a few years (or next year!) a majority of the gifts will be made online. Maybe all this fancy electronic automation will streamline me out of a job!
One of the potentially frustrating things about Campus Crusade is that things are constantly changing. Whether it's ministry strategies or job titles or processes, we live in a constant state of needing to adapt to the present reality. (Even our student leaders feel this on campus).
Regardless about the frustrations that perpetual change can bring, it's exciting to think we are becoming more efficient and effective at building spiritual movements around the world.
1 comments:
Make that 93 students, not 85! Wonder if we will break 100 this week?
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