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MINISTRY SUPPORT

This page is provided in response to those who may have an interest in financially supporting our Daily Encouragement Net ministry. We hope you enjoy all the resources that are available through our internet-based ministry, particularly our daily messages.  There's a lot of information and help available to you and so many others.  But it takes a substantial amount of time and expenses to produce this material and keep it available. Due to the time it takes we now consider this our main ministry. Donations are tax deductible and will be receipted directly by my chaplaincy endorsing ministry.  See below for our principles in raising support.

Financial Giving Options

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Brooksyne and I consider this the most important component of our ministry and it takes a significant part of each workday to prepare each message. Although we also receive some income from other sources such as part-time chaplaincy, we are trusting the Lord that this ministry will continue to grow and impact many for Christ and we will receive support funding commensurate with the time and expenses we place into it.  Here is a current personal ministry update.

Preparation of all the materials involved in the daily message takes us some 7-8 hours per day. In addition to this we seek to follow-up to needs expressed to us from readers and podcast listeners. Many write with hurts requesting prayer and counsel.  Due to the size and scope of the ministry we also require several modern computers, high-speed internet access, and specialized software and listserve functions.  See this page for more info.

You work hard for your money and we deeply respect that. That's why we treat all gifts to this ministry with the respect and gratitude they deserve, by using the funds carefully and to the glory of God. Since we base the ministry out of our home we have very little "overhead" and believe our ministry is a very cost effective means of reaching many thousands of people with Biblical truth on a daily basis.

We provide all of the content of the website, email lists, podcast and other resources at absolutely no charge. We are strictly a donation-based ministry and are dependent on the Lord to provide for us through the financial help of caring, compassionate friends like you. This is possible because of the gifts we receive from those who have been helped through our ministry and who also realize the mission dimension of reaching many all over the world.  For more information on our ministry's impact see this page.

We are recognized by our chaplaincy endorsing agent as "internet chaplains."  We would appreciate your consideration of financial support whether it be a one time or regular gift. So if you have been blessed by our ministry and would like to provide a financial offering we would sure appreciate it!

We use these principles in regard to raising support:
* We do not personally appeal to individuals for funds nor do we follow-up on those who may have indicated a plan or desire to give. We feel this may make people (likely our family and friends) uncomfortable or perhaps obligated which we do not want.
* We do post a small "donation" button on the website and email posts that opens to this page giving an opportunity to give, but we do not appeal for funds in the message content.
* We do post a link to a "Ministry Update" which is a separate page similar to this with an update about the present state of our ministry. This page includes an appeal.
* We do not use any gimmicks to solicit gifts. You won't be any more or less blessed by giving to us! We realize there are scores of fine ministries worthy of your support and that it's virtually impossible to support all. We merely pray daily that the Lord will lay on the hearts of those whom He desires to support our work to do so.
* We do earnestly believe that our ministry is worthy of support and seek to be good stewards of funds entrusted to us.
* We do not have a "budget" per se for Daily Encouragement Net. We believe most supporters and potential supporters would agree that our present total annual income from this ministry (which is about $15,000 per year) is considerably less than what a budget would be for a ministry that essentially equals 1 full time position in regard to the time it takes plus the expenses. The expenses (computers, internet access, software, etc.) for providing this ministry are about $3,000 per year.
* We do receive a small commission on any sales through CBD if this link or any direct link is used to a specific product that is featured (always related to the content and an item that I feel would be spiritually helpful to our readers). This is a very small source of income and has totaled only about $300.00 in the last three years since we tried this method. However any of you who plan to order online are requested to use this link if ordering online through CBD. It will not cost you any more and will help the DE ministry.
* We are not retired! – We are both in our early fifties and served in small to medium-sized churches.  Brooksyne always served very actively in our churches and did not work in a separate job outside of the home and we now share this ministry together.  
* We are not independently wealthy!
* We both serve as corporate chaplains to several companies and do receive some income from this and hope to see this dimension of our ministry increase, as well as periodic speaking opportunities. But we consider our main ministry Daily Encouragement Net.

2) Many pastors now blog and some have some great content and messages (although in my observation most post sporadically and with little content, instead more a personal diary)

The distinction of Daily Encouragement Net:
1)    We post with consistency each weekday with very few exceptions.
2)   We use our own original material which we seek to write with a personal, engaging and illustrative style but also  with Scripture and exposition.
3)  Our material is prepared specifically for internet distribution. The internet is our ministry field. Daily Encouragement Net is among the oldest comtineously operating personal ministries using this technology. The email list began in 1996.
4)  We seek to give depth to the posts with personal comments, related photos, musical links and perhaps links to other ministries and resources.
5)   We use multiple platforms to increase the distribution of our materials (website, email list, blogs, RSS feeds and podcast).
6)  The messages are each archived giving a large store of resources.
7)    We work hard to produce material that is well presented even though we do it out of our home.
Doing all the above is quite time consuming, normally 7-8 hours daily between us.

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