The Missionary Support-Raising AssessmentAnswer 18 questions and see where you rank across the 6 pillars that separate fully funded missionaries from the ones who plateau.
When support isn't coming in, missionaries pray harder. They send another newsletter, or tweak the old one. They go back to the same people they've already asked. Or worse, they do nothing.
None of this really moves you forward. The help is temporary, the support doesn't hold, and every time you go back to the same well, you feel it.
Here's why.
The way donors give, communicate, and decide has shifted. Most support-raising training hasn't caught up. What worked ten years ago — a well-written letter and a spreadsheet of contacts — doesn't work the same way now. That's not a faith problem. It's a system problem.
The Support Raising Gap. The distance between the support you need and the system you're actually running.
Most missionaries have one or two pieces of the system in place. The ones who get fully funded, and stay fully funded, have all of it. A clear story. A team helping them open doors. A consistent ask. Donor relationships that don't go quiet between newsletters. A mindset that treats raising support as part of the calling, not the price you pay for it.
Right now the gap is wider than it's ever been. Inflation. Donor fatigue. Inboxes that don't get opened. Over 5,000 missionaries leave the field every year because their funding ran dry, not their faith.
Every week the gap stays open, it's costing you donors you won't get back, conversations you keep putting off, and the kind of confidence that comes from knowing exactly what to do on Monday morning.
This assessment measures where your gap is widest, in 3 minutes, across the 6 pillars that actually move the number.
I raised over $4 million in support before I ever taught anyone else how to do it. I've coached missionaries who started at $34 a month and got to fully funded in six months, and others who'd been stuck at 60% for two years and broke through in twelve. The pattern is the same every time. The gap is never where they thought it was. This diagnostic is the one I wish someone had handed me on day one.
Mary Valloni · Co-founder, Fully Funded Academy
Can you say in one sentence what you do, why it matters, and what fully funded looks like for you?
Do you have people actively helping you open doors, or are you raising support alone?
Does your case document, support letter, and digital presence make a donor want to give?
Are you making consistent, specific asks, or avoiding the conversation entirely?
Do your donors hear from you between asks? Do they stay? Do they give again?
Is your internal posture about asking healthy, or is shame driving the bus?
