3)      Keep in contact with other missions groups or human rights groups that we’ve recommended to get involved with your mission. We provide the initial introduction, but it is up to you to set up meetings, communicate and decide if you’d like to work with them or not. Email communications should be CCed  to us so everyone is in the loop.

What’s in it for us? Why do we do this?

If we’re helping you so much, there’s got to be something in it for us, right? At this point, you’re probably wondering why we do this.

Currently, JESUSpolitik is a US nonprofit that works solely off of donations as well as the sacrifices and time of good hearted volunteers. We have no paid staff, so we’re thankful for all the help we can get! Our volunteers and even our president have to work full time jobs elsewhere during the day and then volunteer their time with JESUSpolitik after work in the evenings, weekends and on their days off.

We’d like to get to a point to where staff can work full time doing what they love – helping reach people for the Lord through JESUSpolitik and the mission organizations it helps. BUT, to get to that point, we first have to have a track record of being a responsible, needed and effective organization. We want JESUSpolitik to be recognized as a good and beneficial resource for missions groups. It is only then that we can apply for US government grants to pay fulltime staff that can focus all their energies on JESUSpolitik and the organizations we’re trying to help.  

We’d like to be paid by government grants for our good labors! Providing these service to you and your group help us to get the data we need, and the track record required to be able to qualify for grants - so we can continue to provide these vital services to you at no cost to you, while still being able to eat, buy gas and pay our expenses.

We can’t do that without you! By helping your missions organization and your missionaries to reach the people that they are reaching – we’re establishing our track record of good service and getting to be used by God to help people in the process. The more people and organizations we help, the more readily JESUSpolitik will be recognized as a beneficial and needed resource for missions groups, and the more likely we will receive a government grant and be able to increase our efforts to help you!

We see this as sowing and reaping. We will sow into your ministry and reap as the Lord opens doors for us through grants and gifts.

How do we build trust?

- We don’t jump into projects! We’ll ask you questions, get to know your organization and then pray if we’re a good match for each other. Once it’s been determined that we’ll be working together, we’ll do all we can to help you!

- We keep in touch weekly and expect monthly reports (summaries). We want to know what you’re doing, where you’re effective, where you’re in need, what you need prayer for and what your ideas are. We’ll also let you know what we’re doing on our end to help – what meetings we’ve scheduled, student groups we’re talking to, schools we’re speaking at, fundraising events we’re planning, resources we’re gathering, and other work we’re doing on your behalf.

- When we send financial help, we want to know how it’s spent! Please keep receipts, take pictures of what you’ve bought and send it to us! People are more inclined to give if they know where it’s going and they know that you are a faithful steward of the gift they’ve given you.

- We have a reputation for being an honest, trustworthy and personable organization. Students want to get involved because we’ve provided so many ways for them to creatively use their talents to help meet needs around the world.

Assurances:

- We are not out to steal your glory or to take credit for your work. We’re here to support what you’re doing. We’ll write about your mission and what you’re doing on the “Projects” page using your mission organization’s name and your missionaries’ names. If you are working in a sensitive environment where you don’t want the name of your organization known or of your missionaries known - we’ll keep that confidential, your names anonymous and just talk about the work that you are doing, how JESUSpolitik is helping and how people can give and get involved too.

 - 100% of the money raised specifically for you will go specifically and only to you. Money donated for JESUSpolitik projects will be divided by need among existing projects. None of this money goes anywhere else.  If people want to donate to the folks running JESUSpolitik (to pay for office materials, reimbursements, etc…) we have a “JESUSpolitik general fund” where they can do that. We record those monies separately.

-  Once we begin working with an missions organization in a certain area, we also begin working with other organizations that may be compatible with that organization.  It is up to the original missions organization to decide if they would like to work with contacts to the secondary organizations we provide. We’ve found that when missions and human rights organizations with similar goals (such as reaching the same people group, solving the same problem, spreading the same gospel…) collaborate their efforts and resources, that they have a more efficient and more effective outreach. They reach more, faster and better.  

JESUSpolitik refers to these collaborative efforts as “Projects”, usually called by the some variation of the region name, i.e. Love Maputo Project for the effort in Maputo, Mozambique.  As earlier stated, all organizations and workers involved will have their organization’s names and their missionaries names listed on their project page, if they so desire.

You can view an application right here. You can copy / paste it and answer it and then send it to us via email at App@Net1040.org . You can download an application in pdf form right here or in rich text format right here. You can mail a hardcopy of your application to us at:

Net 10/40

ATTN: JESUSpolitik, Inc

P.O. Box 177 Bryans Road, MD 20616

USA