How can young people who are unable to commit to Partners in Missions or Cities Worth Saving offerings still give to missions?

    Let us introduce you to Seed, an innovative tool designed to enhance missions giving. Seed received an official endorsement from the UPCI at the 2024 General Conference in Long Beach, California and is in a strategic partnership with the UPCI to snowball the impacts of crowdfunding spare change giving for Global and North American Missions.

    In 2021, Bradley Allard, pastor of West Valley Pentecostals in Manteca, California, began earnestly praying that God would enable him to increase the church’s mission giving. Because his grandfather, Edward Allard, was a veteran missionary of the UPCI, Pastor Allard retains a strong commitment to missions.

Since planting West Valley Pentecostals in 2014, Pastor Allard has led the church to give sacrificially to Global Missions. However, his burden of reaching “the whole world with the whole gospel” compelled him to do more for missions, without competing with traditional methods of giving already customary to the church.

     In 2021, God dealt with Pastor Allard about the concept of Seed. Using Financial Technology (FinTech), Seed enables users to passively give to Global Missions and North American Missions of the UPCI. Becoming a Seed participant is easy and rewarding.

SeedGiver.org provides step-by-step instructions on how to register credit or debit cards. Once the card is registered, each purchase made with it will automatically round up to the nearest dollar amount. Seed users rarely miss the spare change given through round-ups. However, if a Seed user desires to limit their monthly giving to a specific amount, there is a feature that allows it.

Many people are familiar with Acorns, which provides round-up technology for personal investment. Consumers are accustomed to being asked during payment transactions to round up to the nearest dollar to support various humanitarian causes. However, Seed offers an opportunity for Pentecostal consumers to invest in the Kingdom of God.

    The aggregate giving of round-ups will potentially hasten a UPCI missionary’s furlough period, build Bible schools on foreign soil, and help with humanitarian projects across the world. It’s that easy to make a difference!

Seed raised approximately one hundred thousand dollars pre-endorsement. With the endorsement of the UPCI, Seed expects to 10x its annual giving to Global Missions and North American Missions.

    The Seed leadership imagines the construction of the first UPCI hospital, expanding the UPCI’s impact through humanitarian aid across the globe, and building new churches in densely populated metropolitan areas of North America.

The potential of Seed is exciting!

- Dr. Jason Calhoun