Fall 2012
The theme for Fall 2012 is “Resource Development.”
Ray Lyne was named a lifetime CLA consul during the 2012 CLA National Conference. Being named consul is CLA’s highest honor. It recognizes exemplary leadership in the field of Christian nonprofit leadership, including substantial assistance to the work of CLA. Lyne — president and chairman of Lifestyle Giving Inc. based in Irvine, Calif. — has spent 45 years in the design of personal estate and giving plans. He was a part of the Christian Stewardship Association (CSA) fro...
CLA’s newest book is entitled Becoming a Steward Leader: Fundamentally Change the Way You Think, Lead and Live (Christian Leadership Alliance, 2012). That is a bold title, but we believe that the insights contained in this text can indeed have a major, lifelong, transformative impact on your journey as a leader.
This book is edited by Mark L. Vincent and Joseph Krivickas. It is the second in a series on Christian leadership being p...
Outcomes editor-in-chief W. Scott Brown recently interviewed author Chris McDaniel about his devotional Igniting a Life of Generosity (ECFApress, 2011).
McDaniel is the chief business development officer for DELTA Ministries International, an interdenominational evangelical organization that supports U.S. and international local churches by specializing in short-term and mid-term missions. In this...
Outcomes editor-in-chief W. Scott Brown recently interviewed Dr. R. Scott Rodin on his book The Third Conversion (Kingdom Life Publishing, 2011).
Rodin has been in not-for-profit leadership and consulting for 25 years. Today he serves as Partner for Strategic Alliances for Artios Partners. Rodin has served as counsel to more than 100 organizations across America, as well as in Canada and Great Britain, including colleges, seminaries, sch...
Thirteen years ago, the Great Commission Foundation of Campus Crusade for Christ was reborn. It had been an empty shell corporation for 10 years, and held just one asset, a problem investment.
God called me to this somewhat strange mission field, and my small team and I went to work. We wanted to take a biblical approach to stewardship. We started with a philosophy of ministry to the stewards who supported Crusade ministries. We committed to work on their agenda and not our own....
CLA President and CEO Tami Heim recently interviewed Joan Mussa, World Vision USA’s senior vice president of mobilization.
Mussa earned a bachelor’s degree at Augsburg College and a master’s in broadcast production and management from the University of Michigan. She started a broadcasting career in Minneapolis. After covering the famine in Africa in 1985, she was called to World Vision, where she became a regional communicator in Nairobi, Kenya, shooting f...
Did you know that "generosity” is a fruit of the Spirit? If you look it up in a Greek-English lexicon, the word rendered "goodness” may be better translated as "generosity.” For years I thought generosity was the result of my sermons or direct-mail appeals. Paul is sending a message to the Galatians (and to us): Generosity is the result of God’s work, not man’s work, in the lives of believers.
This begs the question: What is the role ...
My most successful fundraising experience ended in failure. A mutual friend introduced me to a man who was very rich, often drunk, and obviously irreligious. When I invited the man to come to campus and have lunch with me, he accepted on one condition: "Don’t talk to me about getting born again.”
Our luncheon conversation found common ground in the field of business ethics, art collections, and our Finnish ancestry. Over the next few months, our unlikely friends...
Most people have a person in their life that inspires them to think about things differently. By God’s wondrous provision, I’ve been blessed with several. I was sitting in the office of one of my mentors one day when he said this to me:
"Tell me — and I’ll soon forget. Show me — and I may remember. Allow me to experience — and I will truly understand.”
My mentor then shared a story about a coach who was trying to inspire ...
The Internet has undoubtedly changed the way we live. It serves as a valuable tool for people to communicate, research, shop, and connect. As our lives continue to revolve around technology, it only makes sense that the Internet is also changing the way we give. More Americans are getting online than ever before: 80 percent of adults and 95 percent of teens use the Internet. Twenty-five percent of those adults make charitable donations online, and that percentage continues to soar (Pew Int...