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Service still active despite evident lack of activity

Alms, as with all sub-ministries of the likeChrist Ministries, is operated on a somewhat shoe-string budget. As a results, advertising costs are at times simply not affordable. Which should explain in part why there is evident activity from both givers and those in need (who would appeal for alms on the platform). And despite all this, we still judge it not wisdom to lower the standards that dictates acceptable marketing as well appeal types simply...

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Considering to use appeal-adapted advertising approaches

Instead of using more general seeming advertising to promote the Alms platform, we are resolving to use selected-appeal-based approach. Where appeals shall be selected perhaps based criticality, urgency, etc. and then adapted into an advertisement. With the respective appeal page being the ad click landing page. This we expect should be more efficiently convey what the ministry. Until now we have used Google Ads (Google search text ads) but we have contemplated much on trying...

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Christian Crowdfunding Platforms Reviewed by a Protestant

OVERVIEW We find the doctrine of alms giving taught and the act thereof generally encouraged as virtuous in several parts of the Holy Scriptures  – that this work of charity is even more glorious when done to them of the house of faith . Now while the concept of group collections (best known as crowdfunding) is commonly adopted for secular causes, we find the same essentially fulfilled in the Holy Scriptures when a collection was...

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Caution for Christians on fundraising or crowdfunding

There are several fundraising or crowdfunding platforms online. Both secular as well as those professing to be Christian based. While any funding/alms request campaign will often be attended to with a lucrative response on either platforms, there are a some dangers that an evangelical Christian will want to consider before proceeding. The particular dangers in question applies to both secular as well as Christian professed fundraising or crowdfunding platforms. The danger of receiving abominable funds Read more…

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Partly inspired by an account from The Wonders of Prayer

During the early years of my Christian pilgrimage, I read, amongst several  evangelical Christian literature a book titled ‘The wonders of prayer‘. The book sought to curate accounts of remarkable answer to prayer. With contributions from renown saints like George Muller and Charlse H. Spurgeon (to name a few). Amongst these was an account of a minister who for a season stood in acute need after his salary was for some reasons withheld. For which Read more…

By likeChrist Ministries, ago