80% of the world’s evangelical Christians live in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Over the last 50 years, God’s church has grown exponentially in these areas.

These regions have tremendous mission sending potential to help bring the gospel to unreached peoples, but they currently send only 20% of the world’s cross-cultural missionaries!

Articles

Authors

Schedule

Give to Teams or Projects

Your partnership will help us reach the nations through the nations.

Partner with our staff

Give to a Training

We are always on the lookout for ambitious and talented people to come and join Via. If you are passionate about the bringing God's glory to the nations and want to help mobilize the global church then we would love to hear from you.

Open Roles

Careers & Internships

Total Number of Evangelicals

Cultural Bridges to UPGs

Regional Access to UPGs

Religious Freedom

Prosperity

Current Sending Abroad

Mobilization Potential

Custom Mobilization Potential

Number of Evangelicals

Cultural Bridges

Strategic Access

Religious Freedoms

Current Sending

This infographic provides a visual score for seven data points ranked on a 0 to 100 scale. Faded icons show scores for other countries on the mobilization index. See below for actual scores and country-specific insights.

ADDITION

FINANCIAL DEPENDENCY

INACCESSIBLE

LIMITED MISSION FORCE

DISTANT AND FOREIGN MISSION FIELD

THE WORLD IS THE MISSION FIELD

Show Notes

Formats

Available Languages

About the Author

Filter

Tools

Search

Team Profile

If you are a new missionary raising support or a veteran missionary living on support, there is an important time of year quickly approaching I wanted to remind us of. There are more charitable donations given between November and December than any other two months in the year. Check out these statistics from <a href="https://www.neoncrm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.neoncrm.com</a>.
<ul>
<li>Nearly one third (31%) of annual giving occurs in December.</li>
<li>53.8% of nonprofits start planning their year-end appeal in October.</li>
<li>28% of nonprofits raise 26&ndash;50% of their annual funds from their year-end ask.</li>
<li>59.9% of nonprofits make between 1-3 donor &ldquo;touches&rdquo; for their year-end campaign.</li>
</ul>
We may think of organizations sending out shiny brochures inviting year end gifts, but as a personal support raiser do you have a game plan for your end of the year fundraising strategy? Year end giving can and should become a vital part of your overall funding strategy. Large gifts can fund special ministry projects, make up for missed gifts from the previous year or help build a buffer to ensure full paychecks for the coming year. So how do you set your end of the year appeals apart from the stacks of shiny brochures filling your donors&rsquo; mailboxes? Get personal! Set a timeline for touches and appeals with current donors and contacts. Below is a sample timeline adapted from the FCA Year-end Giving Guide:Nov. 1 - Namestorm the donors and contacts you plan to appeal to face to face. Plan any out of town trips.
<ul>
<li>Nov. 7 - Make a post on your social media channels about year-end giving.</li>
<li>Nov. 15 &ndash; Mail your year-end direct mail giving appeal.</li>
<li>Nov. 28 &ndash; Today is #GivingTuesday! Promote through various social media today and throughout all of November.</li>
<li>Dec. 1-20 &ndash; Make personal phone calls and set up donor meetings.</li>
<li>Dec. 4 &ndash; Send personal Christmas card and possible donor thank you gift.</li>
<li>Dec. 11 &ndash; Mail year-end newsletter. Include information about how to make a year end gift.</li>
<li>Dec. 22 &ndash; Send a personalized pre-Christmas email.</li>
<li>Dec. 31 &ndash; Last minute appeal on social media in the morning. Short and simple message that there is still time left to give.</li>
</ul>
Having a game plan and a timeline is great to help get the word out that people can partner with your ministry. However, nothing will ever take the place of a personal phone call or face to face meeting. In my local FCA area we do many of these touches listed above, but nothing has been more fruitful than me personally reaching out to donors and connecting relationally. People want to know you care about them. Having and sharing the fruit of ministry is so important, but it alone doesn&rsquo;t bring people to give. There was a saying years ago that many missionaries believed: &ldquo;money follows ministry.&rdquo; They went out and did lots of ministry and waited for the money to come in&hellip;but it didn&rsquo;t just magically arrive. It wasn&rsquo;t until missionaries met with people face to face and shared their ministry updates, vision for future ministry, and asked for support that people started to partner with them. In your year-end planning and timeline, don&rsquo;t forget the most basic principles that have carried many support raisers to full-funding. Meet people face to face and ask them to partner with the vision.

Via Generosity

It's Time to Get Personal

It's Time to Get Personal

By: Micah May

Related Articles

The Spirituality of (Year-End) Fundraising

Seeing Ministry Partners As People–or Targets?

Inviting is Uniting: Partnership with the Local Church