The Catch of the Day is excited and humbled to be launching its first ever membership campaign, 3 Clicks and We are Almost Home.
A Catch Membership means greater involvement for all of us. It means there are a significant number of you who want to see the Catch succeed in its Gospel of Welcome as a door-opening outreach, peopled by a community of believers eager to be marketplace Christians.
You have always been there. Record numbers of Catch citizens banded together as recipients of our message and ministry and to claim victory over a man’s ill intent to shut down our ever expanding ministry. You voted with your pocketbooks when our home was threatened and when a specific need arose. You have been the ones who have been eager participates in our various causes including the Isaiah House, a home for women without homes. You have gone out of your way to provide us with your good ideas and insights. You have shared with us your stories, stories that connect us all in our all too human experiences.
To be honest, you have overwhelmed us by telling us in such concrete ways what the Catch has meant to you in the past and how important it is to you to see the ministry as a part of your future. This is what has given us confidence to move forward in planning a membership campaign by electing eleven Catch members to lead us into this new phase of our journey as a virtual community.
The Membership Committee represents our Catch community in their assessment of the need, defining the objectives and setting the goal. Further, they individually stretched their personal commitments to present to you not only their best thinking but their personal commitment when asking you to join them as Catch members to sustain and secure the ministry today and into our future together.
On behalf of this community of members, we are asking you to accept their challenge in securing the commitment of 350 members within the next two weeks. That is quite a stretch for such a young community as we are. Yet the goal is one that I believe we can secure provided we work to encourage each other over the next few weeks to participate.
Members of the committee recommend the easiest way to become a member is to click on the shoes, which will take you to our monthly giving page where you can click on the amount you are most comfortable with, and pay electronically from any major credit or debit card account, including PayPal. If you prefer, you can ask your bank to create electronic checks to be sent monthly or, of course, you can send to the Catch Ministry your personal check monthly. Whatever questions you may have, don’t hesitate to write to us in care of the Membership Committee and Marti or I or someone from the committee will be happy to get back to you.
Join us today in our 3 Clicks and we are almost home campaign. Your first click begins here:
John Fischer The Catch 
Unfortunately I am in danger of becoming homeless very soon myself. My health has caused me to become unable to work. I have gone through all of my savings and had to cash in my son’s college savings. I have a claim pending for disability but I don’t know if it will be approved before I lose my home. The mortgage company said they cannot do anything for me because I have no income. Therefore what little money I have left is only to feed myself and my son and for transportation to medical appointments. I would like to continue receiving The Catch but I won’t be able to if I have to pay.
Lori – no one will ever have to pay to receive the Catch or to be a part of this online community! Are you going through this alone? I have to wonder if the mortgage company doesn’t have to suspend collections while your application is pending. I’m certainly no expert, but you must not go this alone. John can put us in touch if you want. Otherwise, at least we are here free of charge! Keep us posted?
Dan, for the Catch