Add Participants to Mission Trips
After setting up a mission trip, you can add participants to the trip.
Since a Pledge is a concept that serves several purposes in MinistryPlatform, there are a few special considerations for Mission Trips:
- A trip participant may not be listed as a donor in your database. Use the Add/Edit Family Tool to create a Donor record first.
- Sometimes, a trip accepts "general" trip donations. Use the Add a Company Tool to create an entity in your database for this purpose.
- A trip may earmark donations to help with specific categories of expenses, like Bibles or Goats. Create a pledge to the general trip donations for each category, then you can write the specific name in the Beneficiary field of the Pledge record.
- In order for a participant's name to display on the Mission Trip Giving Form, their pledge status must be Active.
- The Installments Planned and Installments Per Year fields are not relevant to Mission Trip pledges. You can enter 0 or 1 in these fields.
- If the pledge donor is a trip leader, set Trip Leader to Yes. This person is able to see the fundraising progress of all pledges when they log in to the My Mission Trips widget.
You can add a new pledge associated with the participant to the mission trip campaign.
- Go to .
- Click New Pledge.
- For Donor, select the participant's name.
- For Pledge Campaign, select the mission trip.
- For Pledge Status, select Active. This way, their name displays on the Mission Trip Giving Form.
- For Installments Planned and Installments Per Year, enter 0 or 1.
- For Beneficiary, enter the expense category, if needed.
- If this person is a trip leader, set Trip Leader to Yes. This way, they can see the fundraising progress in the My Mission Trips widget.
- Enter any other information.
- Click Save.