This article is not related to Mission Trips or Mission Journeys. This article is about commitments made to full-time missionaries or staff members deployed to places like college campuses who do their own fundraising.
Consider the following approach if your church is allowing missionaries, staff or college campus ministers to gather commitments (pledges) in anticipation of future donations:
- Create a Program for each missionary or staff person.
- Create a Pledge Campaign for each missionary or staff person who will record commitments (pledges) in advance of donations. Connect the Pledge Campaign to the Program created in step 1.
- Edit the program created in step 1 and assign the Pledge Campaign created in Step 2.
- Add pledges for any donor who commits to provide support. If a family makes such a commitment, select any head of household as the donor for that pledge.
Tip: Do not create a Pledge Campaign if you accept donations in the name of the individual, but do not track future commitments. A Program suffices in these instances.
