The Age of Global Giving: A Practical Guide for Donors and Funding Recipients of our Time

The dynamics of globalization and the speed of change have created greater complexity for Western missions. The Age of Global Giving provides accelerated learning for donors, church leaders, agency leaders, and mission workers. As a result, donors can achieve greater outcomes with deeper satisfaction in their giving and their voluntary work. Ministry workers can develop improved vision, values, and strategies that go further in creating sustainable impact and align with the donor values of today. It?s a new day in the relationship between donor and recipient, and it?s just in time because global mission is in dire need of this kind of cooperation.ReviewOne of the key arenas in which Satan has a foothold is in the relationship between donors and the ministries they support. Distrust, pride, insecurity, imperfect information, fear, and miscommunication combine to give Satan the opportunity to create division within the body of Christ and to slow the advancement of the kingdom. In this important book, Gilles Gravelle argues that ministries need to repent of a "pay, pray, and get out of the way" attitude towards their donors. In the place of this, he argues for a more biblical model in which donors and ministries see each other as full partners in ministry, seeking to humbly respect the full range of each other's gifts and stewardship responsibilities. This is an important work addressing a very timely issue. Brian Fikkertco-author of When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself