Onboarding Events
Ministry Partner Development
A privilege you have as a Cru staff member is to mobilize ministry partners to pray for and give to your ministry. A portion of New Staff Orientation (NSO) is devoted to train you biblically and in the skills you need to successfully raise your funding. This is what we call Ministry Partner Development (MPD).
Overview
MPD Expectations
for New Staff
Vacation
New staff members are not eligible for vacation during their initial MPD, even if the MPD extends beyond 12 months. All new staff members have the freedom to take the equivalent of one day off per week. After the first six months of MPD, the MPD Coach may approve 2-3 days of vacation for the new staff member.
Senior staff members married to new staff members are subject to the vacation policy for new staff members in the preceding paragraph. Vacation is deferred until they complete their MPD. (See Cru HR Handbook for more details.)
MPD Week Absences
Due to the critical nature of MPD Training, no one will be excused from any portion of MPD training, including the Saturday session.
Your MPD Coach
Within two weeks after your acceptance to staff, you should receive a call from an MPD leader. If an MPD leader has not called you within those two weeks, please contact Nancy Dickens (nancy.dickens@cru.org) or Pete Smith (pete.smith@cru.org). You will find out the name of your post-NSO MPD Coach at NSO (if not before).
Pre-NSO MPD Assignments
Prior to your arrival and to prepare for the MPD training, you must fully complete the Pre-NSO MPD Assignments.
One of the Pre-NSO MPD Assignments is to raise the funds needed for your NSO expenses. The assignment will walk you through how we want you to raise support for the training.
Even if you have received some MPD training, we do not want you to raise monthly support prior to NSO; please only focus on raising special gifts for NSO. This also applies to interns who are joining staff.
After completing MPD Week at NSO, you may begin to raise your monthly support. Remember, this is for your benefit!
Donation Checks
- Be sure that each donation check is made payable to “Cru”.
- Your name should not be on the check, but your staff account number can be added on the memo line of each check.
- Mail checks directly to Donation Services (Cru, P.O. Box 628222, Orlando, FL 32862-8222) along with a note that includes your name and staff account number.
- After processing donations, Cru will send a receipt to your ministry partner (for income tax purposes).
- Keep track of your support (names, addresses, phone numbers, amounts) as it is developed and promptly send thank-you notes to ministry partners.
Couples
Engaged Couples
If you are new staff and engaged to someone who’s already on staff, the following guidelines determine if and when your fiancé(e) needs to attend the MPD training:
- If the wedding date is within one month after the end of NSO, the senior staff member must attend MPD training with his/her fiancé(e).
- If the wedding date is within 5-to-11 weeks from the end of NSO, the decision about the senior staff member attending the MPD training will be handled on a case-by-case basis in consultation with Director of MPD Training and the staff couples’ LD/HR leadership.
- If the wedding date is 12 weeks after the end of NSO, the senior staff member will not be required to attend MPD training with his/her fiancé(e). Shortly before or after the wedding, the support coach will help them prepare their MPD presentation as a couple.
