E-mail Template for Churches Requesting Links

Subject: Help Serve the Poor: Add a Weblink

I wanted to see if you would be willing to add a link on your site to our website at ChristianVolunteering.org.  ChristianVolunteering.org is a free search engine of thousands of volunteer & short term missions opportunities and organizations that are serving the poor.  The basic idea is that it works similar to job matching sites like Monster.com, except for volunteers search for and are matched to volunteer opportunities.  Our national partners include Gospelcom, the Salvation Army, the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions, Christian Community Development Association, Here’s Life Inner City (Campus Crusade), World Vision and many others.

Links from churches to our site can be worth $20-100 each of increased traffic to our site, so please consider adding a link to our site.  You could use the following link & text:  ChristianVolunteering.org Volunteer & Short Term Missions Search (http://www.christianvolunteering.org).

If you wanted to include our volunteer search form on your site, you can find instructions on how to do so at: http://www.christianvolunteering.org/searchform.jsp.  I’ve also included a description of ChristianVolunteering.org that you could use as an E-mail template if you wanted to send information about the site to others in your church.

Thanks so much for your consideration!

 {Your name + Your contact information}

Sample E-mail

I wanted to let you know about a new website www.ChristianVolunteering.org which helps connect volunteers to ministries serving under-resourced communities.  The site is a free search engine of thousands of volunteer & short term missions opportunities and organizations.  It works similar to job matching sites like Monster.com, except that volunteers search for and are matched to volunteer opportunities. 

Anyway, as our church would love to get more involved in serving “the poor” and under resourced communities, I thought this might be a great way that some of you could find more opportunities to do that.  There is also a search on the site for opportunities that might be appropriate for small groups that want to volunteer together.  You can visit the site at http://www.christianvolunteering.org.  

Sample Church Announcement

Interested in Volunteering to Serve the “Poor”?

Visit ChristianVolunteering.org to find thousands of volunteer and short term missions opportunities.