When helping hurts the professional helpers.
Long before Google Maps, a couple of guys in a garage in California figured out how to use personal computers to create a digital map of the global church.
It was 1983, and their two-year project—meant to help organizations see where to send missionaries and who still needed translations of the Bible—grew into an organization called Global Mapping International (GMI).
GMI spent the next 34 years supplying products such as missions maps and studies on how missionaries could thrive. It didn’t charge missions agencies very much and supplemented by asking for donations.
In June, GMI closed its doors, unable to draw enough funding from today’s givers.
“The attention span of the donor is much shorter, and their desire for tangible, immediate impact from their gift is much higher,” said GMI president and CEO Jon Hirst. Read More
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