In this episode of The Beacon Podcast, Lighthouse Counsel Senior Consultant Dr. Lilya Wagner speaks with Dr. F. Willis Johnson about how faith-based fundraising is reimagining and impacting community.

In their discussion, Dr. Johnson addresses issues including:

• How churches and church-related organizations can engage in community activities and what impact that has on their fundraising
• The pros and cons of faith-based organizations having closer ties and relationships with a community and advice on how to proceed
• What community organizations might be most suitable for such a relationship

About our guest

A third-generation educator, Dr. Johnson is a spiritual entrepreneur and an elder in the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church and previously served as senior minister of Living Tree Church in Columbus, Ohio, and Wellspring Church in Ferguson, Missouri.

Trained in education and nonprofit management, he serves in volunteer and paid leadership positions for multiple nonprofit organizations, as well as counsels ecclesial leaders, annual conferences, churches and nonprofits nationwide.  

Thousands of people have been influenced by his prophetic, faith-filled reflections and strategies on social justice and racial understanding.

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