BibleGateway.com Partners with ChristianVolunteering.org

Gospel Communication's BibleGateway.com has partnered with ChristianVolunteering.org to help recruit more volunteers to serve in urban communities. Bible Gateway is now showing banner ads for a new partnership site at http://volunteer.gospel.com. Since Bible Gateway gets over 800 million pageviews a month, this should significantly increase the number of volunteers coming to the site. Our site now has 2,541 volunteer and short term missions opportunities from 1,499 organizations and has placed over 2,000 volunteers.

• Post a Volunteer Opportunity Now
• Search Volunteer Opportunities

To recruit volunteers or search for volunteer opportunities: www.christianvolunteering.org

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Spring Term II - Mar 17, 2008

• 307 Facilities Management: The theoretical and practical approach to maintenance of buildings and equipment. Topics include: preventative
  maintenance, housekeeping, public image, record keeping, and inventories. Also includes a study of the most common legal issues faced by nonprofit organizations; governmental bodies to which the organization is accountable; issues relating to property and liability insurance; and basic operational, health and safety requirements.
• 310 Intermediate Fund Raising: Explores the various approaches to effectively communicating the organization’s message to potential clients, staff, community, churches, and donors. Topics include: major donor research, cultivation of contributors, and using written and digital publications
  to communicate with an organization’s constituency. Will include a look at working with various forms of media (Internet, TV, radio, newspapers,
  magazines, and video) used to promote nonprofit organizations.
• 311 Theology & Strategies of Urban Mission: This course deals with the Biblical mandate for urban ministry and presents some of the global issues that impact the lives of city dwellers.
• 403 Urban Evangelism & Discipleship: Biblical and practical motives, methods, and means of bringing the good news of Jesus Christ to unbelievers in the setting of the inner city. The course focuses on helping respondents move toward spiritual and successful Christian life and service. Includes a study of how evangelism and discipleship are practiced in urban ministry, along with how to make a clear presentation of the gospel, how to lead others in discipleship, and how to help ministries improve in these critical efforts.

• 302 Nonprofit Administration: Principles of operating a not-for-profit organization including the development and purposes of organizing documents, the reporting requirements for maintaining an organization’s non-profit status, the functions of the Board of Directors, and the relationship between the Chief Executive and the Board.
• 303 Nonprofit Accounting: Covers both the mechanics of non-profit accounting and the necessity of financial accountability. The outcome of this course is the development of an accounting policy manual for an urban mission or similar nonprofit organization.
• 401 Counseling in the City: This course examines the role and theory of lay counseling as it applies to urban ministry settings. The coursework guides the learner into increased awareness, knowledge, and skill in interacting with multicultural and diverse populations. Counselor attributes, cultural sensitivity, and the concept of contextualized counseling will be explored. This course also focuses on client assessment and approaches to addressing problems common to distressed urban dwellers seeking counseling.

Get Donations When Others Shop Online

Looking for a creative way to receive donations? Supporters of your ministry can have a percentage (1-5%) of their purchases go to your organization by shopping through www.goodsearch.com or www.giveness.com.

If you have a ministry you want to register with these sites you can add them at: http://www.goodsearch.com/AddCharity.aspx and http://www.giveness.com/sp/nonprofit.aspx.

Then, shoppers can:

1. Visit http://www.goodsearch.com/goodshop.aspx, type your ministry's name at the top and select a store.
2. Visit http://www.giveness.org/YourOrg, and select a store.

 

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