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Support Missionaries

High-level instructions for a workflow that allows you to gather and track contributions for full-time missionaries or staff members that raise funds for your church.

Consider the following approach if your church allows missionaries, staff, or college campus ministers to collect pledges in anticipation of future donations.
Note: This article is not related to mission trips or mission journeys. This article is about commitments made to full-time missionaries or staff members deployed to places like college campuses who do their own fundraising.
  1. Create a program from each missionary or staff person.
  2. Create a pledge campaign for each missionary or staff person recording pledges.
    Note: Do not create a pledge campaign if you accept donations in the name of the person but do not track future commitments. In this case, you can just use a program.
  3. Connect the pledge campaign to the program you created:
    1. In the navigation menu, click Contributions > Pledge Campaigns.
    2. Click the pledge campaign you just created to open it.
    3. Click Edit Record.
    4. In the Program field, select the program you created.
    5. Click Save.
  4. Connect the program to the pledge campaign you created.
    1. In the navigation menu, click Church Structure > Programs.
    2. Click the program you created to open it.
    3. Click Edit Record.
    4. In the Pledge Campaign field, select the pledge campaign you created.
    5. Click Save.
  5. Add pledges for any donor who commits to provide support.
    Note: It is best practice to add pledges using the Create Pledge tool to ensure you correctly enter and connect your pledges. In this case, you can also perform the steps below since you're already on the pledge campaign record.
    1. In the navigation menu, click Contributions > Pledge Campaigns.
    2. Click the pledge campaign you created to open it.
    3. Click the Pledges tab.
    4. Click New Pledge.
    5. Complete the information. See this article for more information on pledge fields. If a family made the pledge, select the household's head of household as the donor.
    6. Click Save.
    7. Repeat these steps for additional pledges.
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