Partner Financing Concept & Booking a Presentation

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Cost of an LM2DM Project’s Presentation to a Client

The cost for a client to book an LM2DM Project Presentation is the Presentation Fee and the expenses the client will reimburse the LM2DM Project. The Presentation Fee is based on the size of a church’s Sunday School average attendance. The typical expenses that the client will reimburse the LM2DM Project are travel, lodging, meals, handouts, etc.

The minimum Presentation Fee is $600.00. The Partner Financing Concept provides ways to reduce the Presentation Fee for a client.

Presentation Fees for Other Organizations

            $600.00           An organized group of churches such as an association, conference, diocese, etc.

            $600.00           Small business.

            $700.00           State or nation wide organizations such as a denomination’s convention, camp, meetings, etc.

            $700.00           School (college, university, seminary, etc.)

Partner Financing Concept (PFC) Can Reduce the Cost per Church

Learn More 2 Do More (LM2DM) Project provides quality training and educational entertaining events for church leaders and members at reasonable prices. The Partner Financing Concept (PFC) provides the ability for a small church to receive $600.00 of events for $200.00 which is receiving two events for one third of the normal Presentation Fee.

The Presentation Fee is based on the size of a church’s Sunday School average attendance for the last 26 weeks. The PFC enables a church to reduce its portion of the Presentation Fee by partnering with other churches to provide training events to their members while being a good steward of their financial resources.

The PFC provides partnering methods that will help reduce the cost of the Presentation Fee to a church. The methods are:

1. Multiple Church Method. A church can partner with several churches to sponsor a Presentation of events with the churches sharing the cost of the Presentation Fee and the reimbursement expenses.

2. Consecutive Days Method. A church, when it books a Presentation of events that will span multiple days, will receive a discount that will be applied to the Presentation Fee for the second and third day. No discount is available for the Presentation Fee for the first day. This method does not apply to the Client Designed event.

Combining the PFC’s Multiple Church Method and Consecutive Days Method can make a significant reduction in the Presentation Fee for a church, but it does not in any way reduce the quality of the training events and entertaining events.

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What is the Primary Church Designation?

The initial booking church will be called the Primary church and is responsible to Dale Lee for paying him the total Presentation Fee and expenses. The Primary church will designate a contact person. Dale will work with this person in planning and organizing the Presentation events.

Dale Lee will work with the Primary church in the planning process. If the Primary church decides to use the PFC, the Primary church is responsible for enlisting other churches to partner with it.

Dale Lee will communicate with the Primary church. It is the responsibility of the Primary church to pass information between its partnering churches and Dale Lee.

The Primary church is responsible for the selection of the Presentation events and the topics.

The Primary church is responsible for collecting the fees and expenses from its partnering churches. Motel, meals, will be billed to the Primary booking church.

The Primary church is responsible for issuing two checks to Dale Lee before he leaves the building at the end of the last event. One check will be for the Presentation Fee and the other check will be for reimbursing Dale Lee for his expenses.

Multiple Sponsoring Churches/Organizations Produce Savings to Each Church

Churches that partner together to sponsor Presentation events will share the cost of providing training events.

A Primary church that partners with two other churches to sponsor one day of Presentation events will have each church paying one-third of its Presentation Fee. When calculating a church’s Presentation Fee, the fee amount will be rounded to the nearest dollar.

Dale Lee’s reimbursement expenses will be divided with each church paying its equal share unless another arrangement is made between the churches.

Examples.

In this example, the Presentation Fee for the three participating churches are:

      Church One’s fee is $600.00. One-third of its fee is $200.00.

      Church Two’s fee is $700.00. One-third of its fee is $233.00.

      Church Three’s fee is $650.00. One-third of its fee is $217.00.

      The total Presentation Fee for all three churches is $650.00.

Each church ends up paying one-third of its Presentation Fee for the training events in comparison of what it would pay if it individually sponsored the day of training events. This is good stewardship of the money each church has received from its members’ donations.

If two churches sponsored the training seminars, each church would pay one-half of its Presentation Fee. If four churches sponsored the training seminars, each church would pay one-fourth of its Presentation Fee.

The more churches that partner together will make a significant reduction in the cost to the individual church for providing training to its members. The cost to each church will be significantly reduced if ten churches partner together. Can you image ten churches agreeing to work together.

Booking Presentation Events for Consecutive Days

A church that books Presentation events for consecutive days will receive a discount on the Presentation Fee after the first day. No discount is given on the Presentation Fee for the first day. $75.00 is deducted from the Presentation Fee for each additional day that is booked. In calculating each church’s fee, each church will deduct $75.00 from its Presentation Fee to obtain the church’s discounted Presentation Fee.

Examples of three churches using the PFC to finance three days of training.

First Day’s Presentation Fee

Church One’s fee is $600.00. One-third of its fee is $200.00.

Church Two’s fee is $700.00. One-third of its fee is $233.00.

Church Three’s fee is $650.00. One-third of its fee is $217.00.

            The total Presentation Fee for all three churches for the first day is $650.00.

Second Day’s Presentation Fee

Church One’s fee is $600.00 less $75.00. One-third of its fee is $175.00.

Church Two’s fee is $700.00 less $75.00. One-third of its fee is $208.00.

Church Three’s fee is $650.00 less $75.00. One-third of its fee is $192.00.

            The total Presentation Fee for all three churches for the second day is $575.00.

Third Day’s Presentation Fee

Church One’s fee is $600.00 less $75.00. One-third of its fee is $175.00.

Church Two’s fee is $700.00 less $75.00. One-third of its fee is $208.00.

Church Three’s fee is $650.00 less $75.00. One-third of its fee is $192.00.

            The total Presentation Fee for all three churches the third day is $575.00.

With the booking of three consecutive days by three churches, a church has access to three days of events for less than the cost of the church individually sponsoring training events for one day.

With the booking of two consecutive days by three churches, a church has access to two days of training events for a little more than half of the cost of individually sponsoring training events for one day.

The discount on the Presentation Fee will help offset the cost of the churches having to pay for housing and meal expense for each additional day.

Booking multiple days will increase the cost of expenses due to housing, meals, milage, and handouts.

If multiple church’s are sponsoring training events for multiple days, the training events can be conducted at a different church each day.

Deposit Required to Officially Book an LM2DM Project Presentation

A deposit of one third of the Presentation Fee for the Primary church will be required to book a presentation for Dale Lee. A booking becomes official when the booking fee is received at the LM2DM Project’s office. The deposit is based on the Presentation Fee for the size of the Primary church. The determination of the deposit fee does not take into any consideration any discounts to the Presentation Fee that would be applied if the Partnering Financing Concept is used.

A receipt will be mailed to the Primary church upon receipt of the deposit.

The deposit amount will be subtracted from the Presentation Fee for the Primary church when calculating the amount of the Presentation Fee check the church will give Dale Lee.

How and When to Pay Dale Lee for Service Provided

Two checks will be given to Dale Lee by the Primary church. One check will be for the Presentation Fee. The second check will be for expenses incurred by Dale Lee that will be reimbursed by the Primary church. The expense check will be accompanied by an itemized list of the expenses.

The Presentation Fee check, expense check, and itemized list of expenses will be used for documentation of income tax purposes.

It s the responsibility of the Primary church to make sure Dale Lee receives the two checks before he leaves the location of the final Presentation Event. Dale Lee will not have to search for the person that has the two checks.

Presentation Sermon (only)

If a church books Dale Lee for only a sermon on a Sunday morning, the fee for a thirty/thirty-five minute sermon with a message and smiles is $200.00 plus expenses.

The Presentation Sermon will be a blend of the format styles of a preacher, clown, teacher, and stand-up comedian.