On The Rhoads/Brad » ministry partnership http://ontherhoads.org/brad Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Problem Files http://ontherhoads.org/brad/2009/03/problem-files/ http://ontherhoads.org/brad/2009/03/problem-files/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:53:29 +0000 brad http://ontherhoads.org/brad/?p=36 Just a couple of files I needed to make available.

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[Slashdot] [Digg] [Reddit] [del.icio.us] [Facebook] [Technorati] [Google] ]]> http://ontherhoads.org/brad/2009/03/problem-files/feed/ 0 Ministry Partnership != Sales http://ontherhoads.org/brad/2007/10/ministry-partnership-sales/ http://ontherhoads.org/brad/2007/10/ministry-partnership-sales/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:37:04 +0000 brad http://ontherhoads.org/brad/?p=6 I’ve always liked sales. In fact, when I was four year old, I went door to door selling shells on the beach — I sold them all! Maybe it had something to do with the fact it was 6 AM and I was four.

My first real sales job was in college. I worked at an Apple store selling Macs. The sales manager told the owner I was getting really good.

Then a few years after college I started my own business. That went OK too. (Although, running your own business is definitely not everything it’s cracked up to be.)

So I thought Ministry Partnership development would be much the same as my previous sales experience. There are some similarities, but there is one thing that makes it very different. In sales, it’s all business. Ministry Partnership is all personal.

It’s a lot harder to talk about money with a life long friend than it is to ask Motorola to buy a bunch of memory upgrades.

But Ministry Partnership is not sales.  I’m not actually asking people to give me anything. I’m asking them to prayerfully consider giving to God via MAF. And it is God who takes care of me and my family.

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