Welcome to the inaugural post of "The Christian Index". We'll start off with a favorite topic of youth ministers around the world....
I love it when people approach me with fundraising ideas. And by "love", I mean the opposite. Usually, the conversation looks like this:
Person: John, I have a great idea for a fundraiser.
Me: Let's hear it.
Person: I think that you should...(At this point I tune it out because it generally involves me spending more time away from my family, a complex pyramid scheme of volunteers and an elaborate strategy not too different from either an MC Escher sketch or a Rube Goldberg contraption)...and you can make a ton of money!
Me: Great idea! Would you be willing to head that up?
Them: Ummmm...
So. Post 1: the enthusiasm expressed for a new fundraising idea is directly proportional to the expected involvement of the person making the suggestion.
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