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Most Tweeted Articles by Church Experts — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:10:10 +0000

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By: rodlie

rodlie — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:53:13 +0000

John, what do you think? Any suggestions?

By: human3rror

human3rror — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:09:35 +0000

i think that would be really cool.

i'm actually thinking of redoing the forum, and that could be a great place to hold that conversation. one idea of many…!

By: Graham Brenna

Graham Brenna — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:15:26 +0000

I'm really open to suggestions at this point. This is just a thought I've been tossing around in my head recently. I haven't had much time to do a lot of research yet as to the 'how' I would do it. I think this could potentially be a bigger project than I think it is and I would like to work with a group of bloggers and techno-savvy people to pull this off.

I need to understand more about how wiki's work too. I don't have a platform in mind yet.

By: Daniel_Berman

Daniel_Berman — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:25:05 +0000

My wife has recently signed a contract with an organization called Visions Made Viable (http://visionsmadeviable.org/) for the purpose of fiscal sponsorship of her ministry (http://christianfamilyplanning.net/) They handle all of the legal and financial administrative work and financial accounting for a 10% cut of donations.

The interesting part is that this allows a group to focus on the ministry and outreach that they have a vision and passion for and not get bogged down in the administrative back end stuff. This also challenges the North American thinking of their should be an organization (App?) for that. No if you have passion for ministry, get out there and do it! We'll bring up the rear and make sure it happens!

By: rodlie

rodlie — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:26:21 +0000

hahahah…ouch! I hear you. I would feel bad using the $10 at taco bell. I just wish they'd make it easier to give.

By: rodlie

rodlie — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:21:10 +0000

Sounds fascinating. So perhaps start a wiki-type site to gather all the information together? Is there a model or example in another industry that you're looking towards?

By: Graham Brenna

Graham Brenna — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:57:55 +0000

Good post Rodlie. I've been thinking a lot about starting something to categorize charities and talk about them. It seems like everyone and they're brother is trying to start a 501c3 these days and they don't know the first thing about raising any money. My thought is that too many people out there are trying to do pretty much the same thing and perhaps if there was a central place online where they could learn about the mere existence of each other… they could just join forces in the first place. Less options on 'where' to give money means more money going to one place which would then (theoretically) be able to do more good!

I'm interested to see what you think about this.

By: stephenbateman

stephenbateman — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:38:06 +0000

you're right, the $10 thing was a flop…and a very expensive one at that.
I was very confused, and that $10 is still sitting in an envelope somewhere for me too…

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