1. You are fully committed to raising 100% of your ministry budget.

2. You can commit a minimum of 20 hours a week to partnership development activities immediately after the initial training and until you have your full support.

3. If you are married, you and your spouse are committed to carry out both the training and coaching/accountability phases as a couple.

Thanks for being honest, but why wouldn’t you be scared?  You probably have friends and relatives who think your are nuts for even considering it.  There are pastors and church leaders that see you as a threat and a competitor for resources.  It’s downright painful to live out the image of being a beggar in the eyes of people you care about.

According to God’s Word, two things overpower fear. . . faith and love.  Both are strong components of KCT training.

You will reinforce the faith that raising support isn’t about your need for money at all.  After all, hasn’t God promised to meet your need? Check out II Corinthians 9:8.  So if God has obligated himself to meet your need, why must you go through the horrific trauma of raising support?  The KCT answer is that It’s all about the need of the church, and of individual believers to connect with a major purpose for their redemption: being the expression of Christ to the nations.

And love?  The greatest kind of love you can express to friends, family and fellow believers is to share your vision and connect them with the joy, the blessing and the eternal reward of obedience to Jesus final words.

You already know that churches are overwhelmed with requests.  The statistical fact is that only one in nine churches you speak for will produce one new supporter at an average of $50 per month.  Do the math.  At that rate If you speak to one church a week it will take about 20 years to raise the average missionary budget.

KCT trainees take their vision to the church one person or one couple at a time.  Travel is minimized.  Costs are minimized. They have a story they love to tell and people love to hear it.  There is no pressure and no obligation.  About 75 percent of the people they present to respond with regular support.  The net result is that as they tell their story and follow the guidance of their coach /accountability partner, they complete their full funding in an average of six months.

At KCT we still recommend that you take every opportunity to speak in a church. The church desperately needs your vision.  But don’t ask for support in a church meeting and expect anyone to respond.  Rather, ask for the opportunity to sit down and share your story personally with individuals in the congregation.  The quality of partnership you want to establish is far too important to try to build it from the pulpit or even in the foyer of the church.

It’s because successful partnership development isn’t about what you know, but rather about what you can do with what you know. . . with joy and confidence. We could easily teach you everything you need to know in three days, but you wouldn’t be able to apply the communication skills that make it fun and make it really work.  They say it takes 21 days to change a habit.  The training requires that you invest an equal amount of time offline as you spend online to do practical assignments that will begin your transformation into an effective and confident story-teller.

Join the crowd.  We all agree that individuals are more intimidating than groups.  On the other hand, picture a recent time when you got together with a friend or a couple just to swap stories and enjoy one another.  That is a good picture of what your partnership development experience will be like after your KCT training.

No, we’ll take you back to the fundamental principles of friendship and personal relationship building that this generation craves.  People spend hours every day looking at amazing media, with which you can’t begin to compete.  Forget that stuff.  Instead, harness the awesome advantage you have of being there in person, sharing your deepest passion eye-ball to eye-ball.  Once you learn to do it well, the very best media cannot begin to compete.

At first glance that sounds reasonable, but there are a couple of problems.  First, in your imagination, try reversing the roles.  Say a missionary couple comes along and wants to become your friend.  You are pleased and honored.  After a few visits, a couple meals together, etc., they ask you for support.  Does it leave you thinking, “Whoa, I’ll bet that was their intent from the beginning!”? At KCT we call that bait and switch.

The second problem is one of simple mathematics.  if you insist on building a long-term relationship with every potential partner, you are back to taking three to five years to achieve your full funding.  Those who join your partnership team early on will begin to ask, “Why am I giving monthly to this missionary who probably won’t make it to the field for another two or three years?”

We at KCT are a hundred percent with you on that.  Our goal is to bring you to the place where you can honestly say it isn’t about the money.  It is about sharing your vision with as many people as possible and simply giving them a clear opportunity to respond.

As far as we know, we have the only partnership development training that happens with live, interactive multipoint videoconferencing. This means you can take the training without travel time and travel costs.  It also means that we can spread the sessions over three weeks which gives you plenty of time between sessions to practice and perfect your presentation and make it effective.

We also have a staff of well-trained coaches who provide weekly online coaching and accountability right up to the moment you are fully funded.

If our goal was only to get you trained and get your money, that is the way we would do it.  However our goal is to bring you to full funding in ten months or less.  The road to full funding is full of hills, valleys, potholes, roadblocks, and detours.  We discovered early on that without coaching and accountability virtually everyone gets delayed and sidetracked.  It becomes obvious there is a powerful enemy out there who wants to block your progress.  The very best we can offer is a well trained, supportive coach who knows the pitfalls, to prayerfully keep you on course and keep you accountable.

KCT training and coaching are tightly knitted together.  The training provides the fundamental skills and strategy and the coaching is based on the training.  Therefore we can only provide coaching for those who have been through the training.

Of course you know your financial situation best.  KCT is very careful to keep the costs as low as possible.  When you compare the cost of getting trained at a weekend workshop, flying to another city, paying for housing and meals plus the enrollment fee, you will probably pay less for KCT training including the six months or so of coaching and accountability.

The most important cost comparison, however, is the difference between achieving your full funding in four to eight months (average six months) going with KCT, and the current average of three and a half years without KCT.

We in KCT have discussed this issue with dozens of mission agencies and the problem is pandemic.  The majority of home assigned people, and they number in the thousands, struggle on minimal support.  One recently confessed, “I’m 54 and scared of getting old.  We don’t have insurance, no retirement fund and we both have to work second jobs in order to survive.”

The half-dozen or so late career, home assigned missionaries that have found their way into KCT training, coaching and accountability this year are breaking out of the poverty cycle and are quickly headed for full funding.  Some are doing it in four or five months.  The tragedy is that so painfully few can conceive of sufficient hope to actually launch into the process.

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