Building Donor Relationships and Partnerships
Includes Multiple Live Events. The next is on 05/12/2026 at 5:00 PM (CDT)
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- Non-member - $150
- Member - $150
May 11 - June 19, 2026, Tuesdays at 5 p.m. CST
Generosity grows where relationships thrive. This course helps ministry leaders connect donor care with long-term vision by integrating gift planning into everyday conversations, discipleship, and mission engagement, no large development office required. Geared towards small shops with limited resources.
Course Objectives
- Articulate a theology of stewardship rooted in the Gospel.
- Integrate gift planning into discipleship and vocation.
- Cultivate Christ centered relationships that encourage lifelong generosity.
- Align long term mission planning with the Church’s confessional identity.
Individuals affiliated with eligible preferred partner organizations receive exclusive tuition discounts for Concordia Nebraska Studia Vitae courses. Please visit cune.edu/partnerdiscount to view a list of current preferred partners and verify your membership to receive your discount code.
Josh Douglas (Moderator)
Gift Planning Advocate
The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
Josh Douglas is a Gift Planning Advocate with The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). Prior to accepting this position in 2023, he served the Church as a social studies and music teacher, marketing and development director, and principal in Lutheran schools in Slovakia, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Missouri. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history and a Lutheran Teacher’s Diploma from Concordia University Nebraska (‘05).
In his spare time, Josh enjoys meeting new people, studying genealogy, gardening, taking walks and playing games with his family, and leading adult Bible class and serving as an elder at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Cole Camp. He also equips future servant-leader cadets as a Second Lieutenant with the Civil Air Patrol, the auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force. Josh and his wife, Angie, have been joyfully married for almost 22 years and live in Missouri with their four children — Lille, Andrew, Patton, and Edith — and their Great Pyrenees, Yuri.
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