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We want ShopOnline2Give.com to be a lively blog spot as well as being a fabulous shopping / fundraising site. So what kind of blog? How about lots of kinds of blog!

• We want to hear from the leaders of our Ministry Partners to learn what God is doing in their ministries
• We want to have some devotionals
• We want you to contribute your recom­men­da­tions and reviews of products available for sale on this site
• We want to know what special events are going on at your church or ministry

Do you see where we’re going with this? Are you catching the vision? We  hope so, and we hope to see your comments and contri­bu­tions to this blog soon.

Let’s face it — there’s not much “fun” in fundraising. Not for anyone. Let me count the ways:

• It’s not fun for the person who has to ask their friends and family for money.
• It’s just not possible for a lot of people to give “above and beyond” what they’re already giving right now.
• It’s not fun to be asked to buy overpriced products that you don’t really want or need.
• Fundraising can strain your finances and your relationships.
• Fundraising projects that sell products don’t have a very broad range of merchandise to choose from.
• Fundraising customers are usually required to pay up front, sometime wait for weeks to receive what they ordered, and have  limited recourse if they are unhappy with the product once it’s received.
• And when the fundraising event is (finally!) over, so is the revenue stream.

But now there is a way to put the “fun” back into fundraising. To borrow a line from the Apostle Paul, let me show you a more excellent way.

When your church or Christian  becomes a Ministry Partner of ShopOnline2Give.com, you can introduce your members (and their networks of friends and family) to a fundraising oppor­tunity that overcomes all of the negative aspects of fundraising listed above.

We offer visitors to this site a huge selection of products and services from a growing number of online Retail Partners — some that you’ve known and trusted for years, others that are new to you and ready to be discovered. Because visitors can shop from their favorite online retailers, there’s no pressure to spend money they don’t have for products they don’t want from vendors they wouldn’t buy from otherwise — and they don’t pay a single penny more than if they had gone to the Web retailer’s site directly. Besides that, this is a fundraiser that doesn’t end. As long as we’re here (and we plan on being here until Jesus comes again), we’ll be open for business. And best of all for you, our Ministry Partners, 50% of all our commis­sions will be shared with your ministry.

If your ministry is already on-board with ShopOnline2Give.com, thank you. You can start shopping to earn commis­sions for your ministry. If you’re just visiting to check us out, feel free to kick the tires, click on a Ministry Partner’s link to open their shopping page, visit some of our Retail Partners’ sites, and maybe do a little shopping while you’re here. To contact us about including your ministry on our site, email us at Phil@ShopOnline2Give.com.

Therefore, as we have oppor­tunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers. — Galatians 6:10

ShopOnline2Give.com is really easy to use:

• Select the ministry that you want to help support by clicking on either the Ministry Partners button at the top of this page or the Shopping Pages listing in the left sidebar
  
• Shop at online stores by clicking on the ads on the ministry’s page
• Place your order directly with the online retailer
• We share half of our commission with your ministry
  

Remember to do all your online shopping from the ads on your ministry’s shopping page. Bookmark this page or your favorite ministry’s shopping page to make it easy for you to remember to come back to this site as a portal for all your online shopping needs. Come back often, as we are adding new online retailers on a regular basis.