We’ll have a giving option coming soon.
In the meantime learn about our perspective on giving below.

We do financial giving differently.
Our goal is to empower our community to be missionally generous.

Here’s the deal: In launching this movement and praying about how God might lead us to innovate in disciple-making for a vibrant church model, we knew finances had to be handled in a wildly different way. To be clear, one reason we avoid high facility, event, and salary costs is to empower you to strategically stretch your tithe or offering further—toward high-impact personal or collective outreach and frontier missions work.

Here’s how we see this playing out:

Each person who considers themselves part of our community is invited to give 2% of their tithe toward our movement’s operational costs. This is solely an invitation, not an expectation.

What about the other 8%? In short, we hope you will personally direct 4% toward local outreaches, personal disciple-making projects, or ministries that have a significant local kingdom impact, and the other 4% toward frontier missions—places where the Gospel must advance because people groups otherwise lack access to knowing Jesus. (To be clear, our giving framework is just a general guideline - please give into allocations and specific disciple-making efforts as you feel God leads you.)

Can you give more than 2%—or even 10% or more? Of course! If you do, we will handle it in one of two ways: 1) Distribute your funds according to our current split framework outlined above, or 2) Use the funds as needed to grow and resource the movement.

Do you ever need more than 2% to run Mosaic Movement? Yes and no. At times, we invest in large discipleship projects or initiatives. During those efforts, we make specific financial requests with clear goals that are above and beyond our regular operating costs. But our goal is to keep our regular operational costs within a budget that works in this model.

Other Common Questions:

What are operational costs? These are the expenses that support, advance, and nurture a movement—things like discipleship resourcing, visibility, platform tools and services for communication and systems, fractional/quarterly staff support, and various administrative costs to operate with excellence.

What are examples of local opportunities to financially fund?
The sky’s the limit, but here are a few: helping a person or believer in urgent need with their food, housing, or health costs; foster care; a neighborhood cookout; local outreaches; or local discipleship work. These funds can support ministries or outreach events you believe in and can also be available for you to use for outreaches you may lead or want to try as a sharing-your-faith opportunity. Consider: What are local endeavors or acts of love that you believe can truly impact your neighbor, community, or region with the love of Christ?

What are examples of frontier opportunities to financially fund?
These are generally supported by funding missionaries who are doing church planting or disciple-making in closed or hard-to-reach countries, with an emphasis on unreached people groups. A great way to learn more about this opportunity is to check out the stats here and watch the video here. If you don’t know a missionary yet, simply reach out to our team, and we can make the introduction!

How do you give the self-directed funds to the local or frontier work? Well, you set aside the funds God has given you to steward in a separate checking account. Then simply ask God where to give and look for strategic opportunities. As a guideline: consider keeping half your funds for one-time opportunities and prayerfully look for monthly partners you can support with the other half. The big idea is that you have a sense of deep ownership and conviction around the funds which God has called you to steward for His mission of disciple-making.

Curious to learn more? See our upcoming whitepaper for additional details. In the white paper, we cover our stance on tithe, offering, storehouse emphasis, steward emphasis, local allocation, frontier missions allocation, and more.

Average Church Giving Stats

The Global Church has roughly 14,000 times the financial resources and 36,000 times the manpower needed to finish the Great Commission.

Average Church Spending:

Where finances are spent, on average—49% on personnel, 23% on facilities, 11% on local or global missions, 10% on programs, 6% on dues.

Source: Tithely

Average Missions Giving

Reminder, 40% of the world has little to no access to the Gospel - These people groups called the “unreached”.

WHAT CHRISTIANS EARN: 

Annual Income of all Church Members: $70 trillion.

WHAT CHRISTIANS GIVE:

Only 1.86% is “tithed” to any Christian causes:  $1.3 trillion.

HOW ARE MINISTRY DONATIONS USED:

  • 82% goes to Home ministries of local churches (mostly Christian nations):  $1 trillion [2]

  • 12% goes to Home Evangelism in same Christian nations:  $156 billion [2]

  • Only 6% of this “tithe” goes to general Missions:  $78 billion

WHAT MISSIONS MONEY IS USED TO REACH THE UNREACHED?

  • Only 1.7% of “Missions Giving” goes to work among Unreached Peoples   Estimated $1.32 billion (1.7% of the $78b for general “missions”) [3]

  • For every $100,000 that Christians make, they give $1.83 to the unreached

If you were in a ballroom with a fifty foot ceiling and the ceiling represented what Christians earned, you could stand two dollar bills, end to end, 12” from the floor to represent what Christians tithe. But to see how little is used for the unreached you would have to stack both bills and lay them flat. (roughly 1/2 mm).

— Claude Hickman

PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON MISSIONS GIVING

  • If we sent mission teams of ten people to each of the 7,246 unreached people groups with an annual salary of $70,000 a year. Christians worldwide could provide all of the funds needed to reach all peoples with only 0.007% of their income ($5b). The Global Church has roughly 14,000 times the financial resources and 36,000 times the manpower needed to finish the Great Commission.

  • If every Christian gave $1.93 cents to frontier missions we could easily support 72,000 new missionaries.

  • If every Christian gave just 1% of their income to frontier mission, we could support another 10 million missionaries.

SOURCES:

https://www.thetravelingteam.org/stats

[1] Gordon Conwell, 2024 Download "Status of Global Christianity

*also: International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 39, No. 1,  also World Christian Database, 2015,*Barrett and Johnson. 2001. World Christian Trends, pg 656,

[2] Todd M. Johnson & Gina A. Zurlo, eds. World Christian Database. Leiden/Boston: Brill, accessed July 2017.

*see also: Todd Johnson, Global Atlas of Christianity, pg 296, 

[3].  World Christian Trends Table. David B. Barrett and Todd M. Johnson. World Christian Trends Table 20-3, lines 23-26,44, Pasadena, Calif: William Carey Library, 2001 *Experts and authors above have determined this trend holds true today as of 2022.