If you are emotionally drained, fundraising is overwhelming! Phoning a potential donor feels like climbing Mt Everest all alone. Your heart is right, but you are out of gas. The ducks are winning!

As a young Gospel worker, I faced fear every time I thought about calling someone to set an MPD appointment. It was not only the phone call that scared me—merely thinking about the phone call scared me!

Before I joined the Navigator ministry I figured that some people were good at fundraising—but I assumed I would not be one of them.

In 1954 a singer was fired from the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville after one performance. The manager told him, “You’re going nowhere son. Go back to driving a truck.”

Has anyone told you to “go back to driving a truck” on a FR appointment?

When missionaries are emotionally drained, fundraising and donor ministry become overwhelming! Phoning even one potential donor is impossible. "Our hearts are right, but we are out of gas--elephants are standing on our air hose!

Though painful lessons over the years, God has impressed on me these seven life management skills: