Financial Support Needed for Influencers
Influencers is funded solely by Curriculum Sales and by the monthly support of a few donors. We have scraped by these past 7 years by the grace of God and by the servant’s hearts of a strong volunteer base. Our founders have always felt like the Influencers’ message of “Intimacy with Christ” was much bigger than N.W. Arkansas, and true to the vision, we have seen this ministry expand in ways beyond our wildest dreams. Opportunities have arisen which required response in 2009.
We have expanded our curriculum to reach the needs of brothers who speak different languages, we have developed a quality website which we believe will broaden our reach to the world and we have developed curricula to accommodate a calling to reach men and their wives, as well. We responded to all of these opportunities out of our General Fund, money which was intended to provide for ongoing administrative support. Thus, the General Fund has been severely depleted. Below is a breakdown of money spent on some projects, as well as a list of 2010 projects, which will require support:
- Spanish Translation- $10,000 for Publishing (the Translation cost was paid for by a generous donation by one Influencer)
- Mandarin Translation- $2,000 for creating The Prayer Cottage- since this book will be distributed in Asia, we most likely will create an E-Book format. We are feeling lead to offer this for free, asking only for a small donation.
- Journey for Couples- We have re-written the curriculum somewhat, making it gender neutral and adding some additional sessions, which requires additional layout and publishing costs. We don’t know a total as of yet.
- The Website- $12,000 was spent on the new website. There may be some additional resources needed as the use of the website grows and new opportunities arise which require additional programming.
- Journey Media- $3000 came out of General Funds to go toward producing our new teaser Video, but a $10,000 generous donation funded the rest of the project. We believe there will be a need to produce more high-quality video projects to help reach a visual society, especially on the internet.
- The Journey in Prisons- Influencers in Southern California are being led to take The Journey to inmates. They want to provide the curriculum for free, which will require donor support.