AUGUST Three-Part Challenge
Step by Step
1 Add 25 names to your Mailing List
Action Steps:
Download the Namestorming List to think through people you’ve met recently. (Thanks to Scott Morton for making his resources available.)
DO NOT RULE ANYONE OUT! Go through the categories and write down all names that come to mind. Use these categories too: coaches, politicians, dentists, restaurants, grocery store, professors, hair stylists, retired people, social media, wedding list, insurance agents, real estate agents, Christmas card list…
Add as much information about these new contacts as you know about them.
2 Request and Review your 13-Month Report
Click here to send an email to Lynette Nice to request your report.
The 13-Month Report is an overview of your ministry partners’ giving patterns over the previous 13 months. The chart includes their contact info as well as monthly and yearly giving averages and other information that is helpful when planning for your future.
3 Send a physical mailing to FINANCIAL partners (newsletter/postcard)
Action Steps:
Update Ministry Partner contacts in your database
For a postcard:
Send postcards from locations you visit this summer (like Malaga during Connect), or with an image from your city, or with a word or quote in the language of the country where you serve that you can translate in your message..
Purchase supplies (postcards, stamps)
Address postcards
Write postcards
Stamp postcards
Mail postcards
For a Newsletter:
Purchase supplies (paper, envelopes, labels, stamps) or consider sending with a newsletter service, such as:
BMC Letter Service - bmcletterservice.com
Chalkline - https://chalkline.org/
Helps Ministries - https://helpsministries.org/services/printing-mailing/
Draft your newsletter
Ask someone to edit your newsletter
Print newsletter and labels or send newsletter to a service
Sign newsletter and write personal notes
Stuff, seal, stamp
Mail letters
⭐Pro Tip: Invite over friends or gather the family to help stuff, seal, and stamp the envelopes.