How to start your own Christian charity project and give official receipts to your donors

Thinking about starting a new Christian charity project, or missions idea?

Do you want to benefit from charitable donation tax receipts for your donors in Canada and the United States?

We are often asked how we have been able to offer official charity tax receipts for donations in support of Christian Ministry Academy and Quick Tips for Christian Ministry.

Several had already tried to set up their own charity… and sadly found out the government registration procedure was very costly and too much of a barrier.

But, we found an easy solution — the Great Commission Foundation!

We easily got rid of all those government registration hassles and outsourced our charity receipting, accounting, tax and legal oversight, financial reporting, and government compliance.

We saved tens of thousands of dollars and a great deal of administration hassle by outsourcing our financial management...

Advice for Short Term Mission Trips

Two experts respond to these questions on security and longer term engagement we received from a ministry leader in Brazil:

I’d like to hear about good resources with advice about safety and security for groups coming out on short term mission trips. Oh…and another thing I’d like to hear on your podcast — what are some advice on how do we engage these short term mission tourists to become long term donors? They take a lot of our time and most we never hear from again after.

Mark Crocker is Executive Director of STMleader.com

Mark shares with us his insights on Short Term Missions, having trained tens of thousands of volunteers to head overseas and make a difference. Mark served as the chair for short term missions at the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada’s Global Mission round table. He now consults and trains for faith-based and secular NGOs. He heads of STMleader.com and Stopover.ca....