Advancement Training
& Coaching for Christian
Higher Education

Resources for Your Institution’s Mission Through
Strategic Partnerships with High-Capacity Alumni and Friends

We will counsel your advancement team in the formulation of a Theology of Advancement
setting guiding principles for fundraising strategy and tactics. This will build team morale,
revitalize relationships with ministry partners, and most importantly, empower your stakeholders
to dramatically increase both current and long-term Kingdom giving.

The Key To Multiplying Transformational Giving
that Maximizes Impact

The highest-capacity families, blessed by God with inordinate wealth,
discover their dramatically enlarged capacity for advancing your institution’s vision
and mission, enabling unwavering fidelity to Christian orthodoxy,
and assuring current fiscal health and future sustainability.

Too few such families are guided by advisors to actively
and purposely pursue Kingdom impact in the planning for a tax-advantaged lifetime
and testamentary stewarding of the financial blessings showered upon them.
The result is that they ultimately direct far less to ministry
then they are capable of–while still providing amply for themselves and their heirs.
With effective counsel, wealthy alumni, and friends discover how much they need,
how much they can–and should–give to their heirs, and best of all,
how much they can devote to ministering the Good News to a world
so desperately in need of the Gospel message.

In the end, your Advancement professionals will enrich their relationships
with these friends through this act of spiritual worship through giving;
and the families themselves will become advocates for your
Stewardship Planning Ministry.

Challenges of Resourcing Christian Higher Education

Our Comprehensive Advancement Training & Coaching Program

In our extensive 100+ hours of personal training and coaching, we will facilitate the development of a Biblical perspective on resource generation. We will mentor your Advancement professionals in enriching their relationships; and growing ministry partners’ appreciation for a genuine spirit, and understanding of stewardship. This often results in significantly–even dramatically–enhanced support of your institution, and other ministries they care deeply about.

Here’s What Other Christian Development Leaders and Executives Are Saying

Jay Link and his team of professionals at the Stewardship Resource Group offer a unique perspective on biblical stewardship that addresses what matters most to the heart of God and the ideal goals of affluent Christians to impact the world for Christ. Their professionalism and biblical perspective on sound stewardship principles have been invaluable and permanently altered my mindset and approach to biblical stewardship. They are truly phenomenal and remain on the cutting edge of biblically aligned stewardship coaching for affluent Christian families. They are committed to using their considerable professional skills and experience to help advance the cause of Christ and have no equal that I’m aware of.

They have produced multiple seven-digit gifts to Answers in Genesis over the years through their work with our ministry partners. I cannot recommend their services highly enough for Christians who have been blessed with material resources and who want to have a meaningful impact on the world for Christ.

Going through Stewardship Ministries’ training/coaching has been a life-changing experience. Both personally and professionally my thought process has changed. Often we don’t think that God really does own it all. He most certainly does. We have been given an opportunity to be stewards for His Kingdom and glory to serve Him.

As stewards, we are led by Jesus Christ to connect the hearts and minds of our ministry partners with the people we serve at The Rescue Mission. This unique fundraising philosophy aligns with the Word of God, is inspired by the Spirit of God, and encourages the people of God to participate in the transformation of the most vulnerable people in our community.

II Corinthians 9:8 (NLT), And God will generously provide all you need. Then you will always have everything you need and plenty left over to share with others.

The quality of training I have received from Stewardship Ministries is unparalleled. Jay’s vast knowledge of the intricacies of Charitable planning tools has helped me increase my understanding of advanced planned giving strategies. He takes a thoroughly biblical approach to help create a spirit of generosity in your organization.

I highly recommend working with Jay and his team for the long-term sustainability of your organization.

My knowledge of being a good steward of financial resources was very limited prior to working with Jay. I learned of many tools that have been very helpful as I engage with ministry partners today, helping them to understand the powerful opportunities they have through gifting resources that are non-cash assets.

I also learned that our ministry partner base tends to have a LOT more in resources than they think, and we have the opportunity to open their minds to those different resources.

Because of the work that Jay did with a number of the families that I get to work with, the kinds of gifts they are giving are multiples of what they had been giving in the past.

I’m very grateful for Jay and his ministry to me, my family, and our Taylor ministry partners.

Jay's expertise, experience, and passion for lifelong stewardship of ALL resources (because everything belongs to God) will impact my ability to do Kingdom fundraising and my own personal Stewardship for the rest of my life. To be intentional about what we should be doing with what we've been entrusted with has been a game changer for me. For most high net-worth Christian families the answer to the question of "what do we leave the kids?" is not simply “all of it to the kids.” Jay has made our entire development team more thoughtful about this crucial and faulty assumption.

The Stewardship Ministry has also profoundly impacted the ministry partner families that I personally serve, showing them how to give multiple millions of dollars more to the Kingdom than anything they would have ever imagined they could.

Not only did Jay have a transformational impact on the top ministry partners I work with, but he also widened my perspective on my role as a stewardship agent. The three questions Jay elevates -- “What do I need for myself? What do I leave to my heirs? What do I do with the rest?” -- help frame meaningful conversations with people the Lord has entrusted with much. And the concept of “doing your giving while you're living” as an act of obedience and sound stewardship is life-giving to the core. I praise God for Jay and his ministry.

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Guarantee Long-Term Resources
in 3 Easy Steps

01 CREATE

We help your Advancement team align its theory and practice with Biblical principles for resourcing ministry–the Word and Will of God, inviting the Holy Spirit to become the principal, and most effective, advocate for your mission.

02 CONNECT

We provide crucial stewardship planning services to your highest capacity families that they both need and want.

03 PARTNER

We assist you in facilitating the stewardship journeys these families will be taking. Your team will witness the fulfillment of their stewardship vision, and share their joy in watching their faithfulness produce unimagined Kingdom impact.

Here’s Exactly What You’ll Get
Inside (CFRE Approved)

Development Training & Coaching For Your Organization

Organizational Training (18 hours)

Empower your team with a solid fundraising philosophy that aligns seamlessly with your faith and mission. We will work on bridging any cultural or linguistic gaps, enabling you to communicate effectively and engage high-capacity partners who share your mission.

Addressing Your Organization’s Fundraising Philosophy (7 hours)

Why and How to Develop a Biblical Theology of Fund-Raising.
Your Fundraising Theology Should dictate your Fundraising Terminology.

Aligning Your Organization’s Fundraising Culture and Approach with Scripture (7 hours)

The Bible on Possessions and Giving.
Leading the Way Requires Knowing the Way (A New Focus and a New Culture for Giving).

Marketing and Messaging – Attracting High-Capacity Families (4 hours)

How to have a formal, targeted role out of Stewardship Planning Ministry
Private labeled materials (books, articles, videos, etc.)

1. Creating customized Newsletters
2. Drip Marketing Strategies (What to do and not do)

Development Staff Training (24 hours)

In this section, you’ll gain insight into the world of extremely affluent individuals. This knowledge will enable you to overcome obstacles and develop significant connections. By doing so, you’ll unlock their stewardship potential and create strategies to help them achieve their stewardship objectives with your nonprofit as their vehicle.

Understanding the World and Opportunities of Your Highest-Capacity Ministry Partners (8 hours)

Ten Unique Stewardship Dilemmas Wealthy Christians Face and How it Impacts Their Giving.

Extraordinary Giving Opportunities for Extraordinary Believers.

Helping Your High-Capacity Ministry Partners Overcome Barriers to Greater Giving (8 hours)

Asking the Right Questions is Essential to Getting the Right Answers.
Identifying and Overcoming the Five Major Barriers to Giving.
The Collision Between a Biblical and a Secular Worldview in Planning and Giving.

How to Have More Intimate and Productive Conversations with Your Ministry Partners (8 hours)

Learning to Ask Ministry Partners the Right Kinds of Questions.
Looking for Noncash Giving Opportunities – “Don’t Write that Check!”

Stewardship Planning Services Training (20 hours)

You’ll learn the whole process, including handling legal and tax issues. Most importantly, you’ll discover the key questions to ask your partners. These questions will encourage partners to share their deepest desires, enabling them to make the most impact through stewardship.

Understanding the Stewardship Planning Process (10 hours)

The Five Phases of the Stewardship Planning Process.
Diverting Tax Dollars to Giving Dollars
The Three Essential Questions Affluent Families Must Answer to be able to do

Comprehensive Stewardship Planning and Optimizing Giving

How Much is Enough for Us?
How Much is Enough for Our Heirs?
What Are We Going to Do with What’s Left Over?
How Major Giving is Directly Connected to and Influenced by Inheritance Planning.
Reviewing the Stewardship Planning Questionnaire used in the Discovery Retreat (getting to the giving conversations in the proper order)

Case Studies – before and after results – exponential increases in giving.

Understanding the Stewardship Planning Tools and Strategies (10 hours)

Understanding and Using the Charitable Planning Tools.
The Four Key Stewardship Planning Techniques Used to Optimize Kingdom Giving.
Combining Various Planning Tools to Further Optimize Giving.
The Power of the Stewardship Briefing for Enhanced Giving (Content and Methodology).

Weekly Coaching Calls

We conduct weekly coaching calls to help you apply all that you are learning in the day-
long, monthly training sessions and to hold you accountable for incorporating the needed
changes in your own personal life and the culture of your organization.

These coaching calls also give you an opportunity to “pick our brains” and ask questions or advise you on specific ministry partner situations that you encounter. It is intended to be
field experience coaching.

Services For Your Ministry Partners

Stewardship Briefings

As part of our coaching services, we will conduct Stewardship Briefings for your highest capacity supporters to introduce them to a radically different approach to financial and estate planning that is grounded in a biblical worldview instead of the traditional secular worldview that is routinely practiced in the industry.

We help them answer the three essential planning questions that must be answered if a family wants to do comprehensive planning. We will also provide attendees with a new way to think about inheritances for their families.

Discovery Retreats

For those families who attend a stewardship briefing, they are given the opportunity to take the next step and schedule an individual day-long Discovery Retreat with two of our team to help them gain clarity on exactly what they believe God wants them to do with all of the possessions that God has entrusted them to manage. This retreat is a deep dive into their personal histories, their families, the wealth they manage, and how to best steward it all.

As a result of this Discovery Retreat, the family will develop a detailed list of stewardship planning goals and objectives to help their advisors and the SRG planning team create a stewardship plan that achieves all of their planning goals and objectives. Because we see stewardship planning as far more of a spiritual exercise than a financial and a legal one, the questions we ask are much different than the questions they have been asked in the past and consequently they come up with totally different answers than they have in the past.

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How would your ministry partners answer these statements if asked to respond to their perceptions of your organization? Quickly find out!

From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.”
Ephesians 4:16.

From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.”
Ephesians 4:16