CFU Fundraising Update 2025 FEB

CFU FEB 2025 FUNDRAISING UPDATE

By Rick Lyon

Once again the past month has been one of action and accomplishments.

One of our main fundraising efforts for 2025 is to expand our merchandise items and create a revenue stream from our online store to support our projects as a supplement to our donations which are our primary and most important source of financial support.

This month you will find a couple of new items in our online merchandise store at our CFU website. There is a beautiful new design for the World of the Cross tour items and apparel.

We have a new "Urantia Book Tutor" coffee mug, and other items, such as the T-shirt which is shown below.

And remember, that any of the wonderful artwork you see in DiscoverJesus.com can be made available in high quality, framed and matted prints.

If you don't see the one you want, send an email to us at Rick.Lyon@thecenterforunity.org and we will load up the design for you.

As we strive to support our projects with increased merchandise sales, we have also expanded our footprint. This month we created a print on demand store with Printify.com and linked it to an Amazon Seller account. This will enable us to sell our unique merchandise on Amazon.com. This is still in the testing phase but it should be good to go in a few days.

We haven't been totally satisfied with our donation forms on our website. We are going to switch the forms to QGiv which should make the donation process easier and more convenient. One of the features of QGiv is a peer-to-peer giving plan where our donors help us find other new donors. We would like your input on this. Would you consider participating in such a plan where you find five people to donate to CFU?

It is normal for donations for all nonprofit organizations to increase at the end of the year and decline at the beginning of the year. This year is no different. This past January was our second best January–and February is similar so far–down from previous months but not bad for February.

Holiday spending and tax time in the USA are the cause. However, in the coming months, many people will be getting nice tax refund checks. To donate to any or all of our projects, visit: TheCenterForUnity.org/contribute

Projects Training

Over the past three years and some months, The Center For Unity has created several valuable and innovative new resources for the dissemination of this revelation but more importantly for the purpose of bringing people, especially younger people, to God. As with any new technology, there can be a steep learning curve even when the user interface is well done and convenient.

In the coming weeks, we are going to be sharing some "training materials" to help you take full advantage of these new resources and to help you introduce them to others. Watch your email for this in the next few weeks.

If you ever have questions about how to use any of our resources, we stand ready and available to jump on a quick Zoom meeting to show you how to use them and get the most from them.

Want to show them to your study group or event? We can be available to do that for you too!

WMOJ Welcomes Ian Blaney to the Board

The team at Worldwide Ministry of Jesus is pleased to announce a new addition to our administrative Board. Ian Blaney from Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, accepted the opportunity to become one of our Board members to lead this organization into the future.

Ian is a young husband and father who assumed the responsibility of hosting the weekly study group that his dad, Ted Blaney, had been leading. Ian is a mechanical engineer and inventor. He is especially interested in serving with a new in-person podcast project being developed by Santiago Kneeland.

We are grateful to Ian for stepping up to serve in this way and we look forward to the ideas, energy, and accomplishments that he will bring to CFU. Young people are taking notice of what we are doing and we believe that more and more of them will find a purpose and discover the value of service within CFU.

Thanks to Ian for becoming part of our CFU family!

How You Can Help Through Social Media

Santiago Kneeland is leading our social media efforts but we would like to remind and encourage you to visit our social media pages and click the "Like, subscribe, and share." This really is important to the growing outreach of our projects. The more you like, share, and subscribe, the more people see and benefit from our efforts. As we frequently say, people cannot benefit from our efforts unless they know about them. We need your help with that.

Did you listen to a UrantiaBookpod.com today? Click the button to share it on your social media sites.

Did you read something inspiring on DiscoverJesus.com? Share it on your social media sites.

Did you get an amazing response from UrantiaBookTutor.com? Share it with the world through our social media sites. This is something very important and extremely helpful as a service to this revelation. And it costs nothing but a few minutes of your time. Social media is the most powerful form of communication today and it is there for us to use when doing that which concerns the kingdom of God. Go forth bravely.