All donations, including matching funds, will help fill the Forge ministry fuel tank called: the Forge Fund. We created the Forge Fund as a clear and simple way to show our ministry partners exactly what their donations are fueling. As longtime members of ECFA (Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability) and as a 4-Star Member of Charity Navigator, financial clarity and integrity are crucially important to us as good stewards of God’s resources… and yours.
A Quick Overview of What Forge Gifts Fuel:
The Forge Fund provides for students involved in Forge Equipping programs, the Forge Staff, our Forge Speakers, and fuels the advancement of our mission: building a movement of Kingdom laborers—people of all ages, with hearts on fire, living lives on purpose, in all corners of the globe.
Students can benefit from the Forge Fund in a variety of ways. The fund subsidizes the cost of our equipping programs, making them available to a more diverse student group. The Forge Fund allows scholarships for young men and women who have a demonstrated need and a strong sense of calling to participate. The fund also allows us to expand our training and equipping to areas of the world where travel to the U.S. is neither affordable nor feasible.
Forge Staff can benefit from the Forge Fund via staff development and assistance programs. The fund allows Forge to expand the staff to areas of significant need where a lack of capacity, expertise or funding exists. The fund allows Forge to provide a work environment where staff can grow personally and professionally to fully utilize their unique Kingdom gifting. The Forge Fund supports a sustainable environment for long-term employment.
Forge Speakers can benefit from the Forge Fund by making it possible for them to go to more places around the world, especially when hosts have limited resources. The fund allows Forge to develop additional speakers through the cutting-edge Firebrand Itinerant Training Program, an equipping program designed to develop “evangelists, prophets and apostles” in a similar manner that seminaries train “pastors and teachers” (Ephesians 4:11-13). These men and women will be the “Paul’s and Timothy’s” to the next generation of people in desperate need of the gospel.
The Forge Fund helps make possible and expands our capabilities through Technology and Facility advancements. The fund helps Forge to deliver training and equipping materials, live messages and other valuable resources to new people in new ways as technology advances. The fund provides for facility improvements to enhance Forge’s ability to conduct in-house training to a more diverse group of people in a wider variety of ways.
The Forge Fund is to Forge what an offering is to a church. Without it, we simply cannot accomplish our mission. The Forge Fund fuels the fire of the bold movement in which we are engaged: seeking to answer the prayer of Jesus for more Kingdom laborers.
