Development Training & Coaching
for Christian Nonprofits
and Parachurch Ministries

Set your organization apart from all the others by offering stewardship ministry
training services from a biblical worldview to serve your highest-capacity supporters.
These unique services can enable and empower them to optimize their Kingdom
funding and impact far beyond anything they ever imagined possible.

Why Should High-Capacity Christians
Support Your Organization?

The nonprofit sector is highly competitive,
and Christian nonprofits along with Parachurch organizations
often compete for the same pool of supporters with other charitable organizations.
This can make it difficult to stand out and be heard
and enthusiastically supported.

However, with a solid and clear biblical “theology of advancement”
as your foundation, a deeply rooted Christian mission,
and a ministry approach designed to effectively serve your highest-capacity families,
you can move to the front of the line,
and top of the class of their most favored and impactful organizations.
This is simply because you have served and blessed them.
Their generosity will overflow as they will be more motivated to say “Thank you”
in creative and tangible ways that affirm your mission and organization.
Your service and investment in them will not go unnoticed!

Traditional Fundraising May Make It Harder For You, Your Team, and Partners

Your development team has a lot of turnover
You have limited time and resources with your key ministry partners
You may be uncomfortable approaching your major ministry partners for support
Your team may feel ill-equipped to understand the needs of high net worth individuals
Your team may feel exhausted and burnt out due to the urgency of budget needs
You need substantial additional support to optimize your fundraising results
You’re pressured by how to successfully achieve your assigned nonprofit's goals

Our Development Training & Coaching Program For Christian Nonprofits and Parachurch Organizations

In our comprehensive 100+ hours of development training and coaching, we will assist you in framing a fundraising philosophy and practice rooted in sound, biblical principles. This approach will not only boost team morale and job satisfaction but also dramatically enhance ministry partner engagement. Our in-depth personal mentoring will empower your entire team and leadership to optimize every interaction with current and potential ministry partners, ultimately greatly increasing their willingness and ability to provide substantial,y increased support for your ministry.

Our development training program is also approved for individuals pursuing or seeking to maintain credentialing with CFRE International.

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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A 3-Step Approach to Secure
Your Organization’s Resources

01 CREATE

We’ll help you develop a theology of advancement that aligns with your nonprofit’s mission and vision.

02 CONNECT

We’ll mentor you in how to effectively serve your current and potential highest-capacity families.

03 PARTNER

Your partnership with them will help bring more joy and meaning to their lives, which will dramatically increase their support and investment in your ministry.

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!

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion for God loves a cheerful giver.”
2 Corinthians 9:7

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion for God loves a cheerful giver.”
2 Corinthians 9:7