Posts Tagged ‘Dr. Zenet Maramara’
A Season of Passing the Baton By Dr. Zenet MaraMara
Everything is for a season, a time for every activity under heaven… Ecclesiastes 3:1 After 20 years of serving as the founding CEO of the Christian Stewardship Association, I have entered the season when it time to pass the baton. For many leaders, letting go is much more complex than hanging on. We can get…
Read MorePlanning with God’s Purpose and Perspective By Dr. Zenet Maramara
Planning and Setting Goals God’s Way We start a new year by planning and setting goals that we want to accomplish. Then, we create metrics that tell us whether we achieved those goals. Unfortunately, it has not been easy to plan in the last couple of years, much less predict and evaluate results because the…
Read MoreSet Free to Give By Dr. Zenet Maramara
Are You Set Free to Give? Joyful, generous stewards are set free to give and lead generous lives. Does that send A most noble task of a development professional, besides hitting the annual fundraising goal is to multiply faithful, generous and joyful stewards. Steward theology teaches that a life that is fully- surrendered to the…
Read MoreStewards of All of Creation By Dr. Zenet Maramara
Stewards of All of Life: Caring for all of creation On September 9, 2021 a group of steward thought leaders will gather for a historic event in Warm Beach, WA to launch a document that they have been working for over a year—The Steward Manifesto. The Steward Manifesto is “an appeal and a challenge to…
Read MoreMeasuring Fundraising Success By Dr. Zenet Maramara
A Different Way of Measuring Fundraising Success Traditional fundraising measures success in terms of meeting targets: amount of money raised, return on investment (ROI), increase in giving and donor data base. All these are good, but if success is measured by these targets only, then we are merely transactional and not transformational fundraisers. From Transaction…
Read MoreGodly Governance By Dr. Zenet Maramara
What does godly governance look like? The concept of governance is not new. It is found in the Bible as early as creation. When God created the world and all that is in it, he entrusted its care and governance to Adam and his posterity. Humankind, as God’s representative, is mandated to exert dominion and…
Read MoreGoodbye 2020 : With Thanksgiving and Gratitude By Dr. Zenet Maramara
Are you ready to end 2020 with thanksgiving and gratitude? How do we end the year 2020, with thankfulness and gratitude when it is filled with Covid 19 pandemic, chaos, confusion, global lockdown, and a halt on our normal way of life? God’s Sovereignty We are saddened and grieve with those who lost loved ones…
Read MoreBiblical Truths to Guide Your Ministry By Dr. Zenet Maramara
There are two core biblical truths that must guide your ministry! That God owns everything and that we are only stewards of all resources is a biblical truth which Christians believe, but not as popularly practiced. I teach my fundraising-students that these two basic principles of divine ownership and human stewardship should guide their ministry.…
Read MoreJesus: The Steward Leader by Zenet Maramara
JESUS AS THE MODEL OF A STEWARD LEADER The term “steward leader” suggests that the leader is not the owner but a trustee of the leadership responsibilities entrusted to him or to her. He/she is a steward leader and as opposed to an owner-leader. Jesus is the perfect model of a steward leader. His heart…
Read MoreThe Day I Stopped Fundraising By Zenet Maramara
Stop Fundraising! I was a fundraiser for Asian Theological Seminary in Manila for ten years. I began that job at the time when the American-founded seminary began to nationalize its leadership and faculty after twenty years. It made sense that funding needed to be nationalized also and to start local fundraising. I had no formal…
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