Delivering consistent, personalized service should be the goal of every provider of goods and services. Whether you run a profit-making concern or provide services based upon the support you raise from interested supporters, your "face" to the client/consumer needs to be one of caring, competent ser...

Directors of rural centers have to be jacks-of-all-trades. We counsel, train, plan, write proposals, and clean toilets. Add to those tasks the need to stay on top of state and federal requirements, and it all can be a bit dizzying. So we may let some things slip. Getting a CLIA certificate of waiver...

When we seek to grow and seek to know God moredeeply, it is often His will to teach us through suffering.Jonathan Edwards, that great preacher and theologian from two hundred fifty years ago, once said, "If we are not disposed meekly to bear injuries, we are not fitted to live in the world, for in i...

Will you sponsor me at five dollars per mile for Life Walk?""Would you underwrite a table at our fundraising banquet?""Will you purchase an advertisement in the book commemorating our tenth anniversary?""Would you sponsor a hole at our golf outing?"Sponsorship is a favorite fundraising tool of many ...

The National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) strongly believes that sharing the Gospel is an essential part of counseling women in pregnancy help medical clinics. The Gospel is the Truth, and, combined with the truth about unborn life and visual truth from an ultrasound exam, it is tr...

You, who have shown me great and severe troubles, shall revive me again ... My lips greatly rejoice when I sing to you. (Psalm 71:20, 23)I shifted uncomfortably as I waited for the doctor. The leather office chair was not designed for comfort. "Sit, but do not relax," it seemed to say. "Stay, but do...

About twenty years ago I was working in a retail store and going to college. My supervisor was very understanding as she had two daughters who also were working their way through college. Our store was small with about ten employees, so we were able to get to know each other in a personal way. When ...

How do you determine which adoption agencies you can refer to? Here are some ideas.Establish relationships with the individuals running these organizations. Your goal is to determine whether they are able to minister to clients in a nonjudgmental, unbiased manner. Remember that some agencies work fo...