Year End Letter

Dear Friends,

It’s hard to describe our family’s recent adventures within a few sentences… but I’ll give it a shot. From leaving our home, our friends and family after 40 years in New York, to beginning a new role in FCA and moving across the country to Kansas; it feels as though we’ve lived a lifetime in a single year. The Lord has been relentlessly good to us through it all. We’ve discovered more of His mercies and grace inviting us to depths of faith we’ve never experienced before. And we can’t begin to express the many ways you’ve supported us by way of prayers and generosity. We thank you, truly, from the bottom of our hearts. Our lives and those to whom we minister have been forever changed because of your friendship, support and love.

This is quite possibly the most exciting time in FCA’s history as we're on the doorstep of our first ever Capital Campaign! We plan to build facilities that would sustain the advance of our mission for generations to come. It’s a mission worth reiterating: We aim to lead every coach and athlete into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ and His Church.

Our team of Regional leaders is growing! I’m privileged and humbled to coach them through biblically based, donor-centered-development. And by updating our Leadership Board resources we seek to support every staff member, ensuring no one will serve alone in their communities.

As we launch into another year, the Lord has big plans for our Donor and Board Advancement team. Our goal is to provide Strategy, Training and Resources for fields around the globe. These foundational relationships – Donors and Board Members – are critical to the legacy of FCA and will ultimately impact eternity. This year we’ll be working to expand donor generosity in three critical areas: 

• Launch our Every Generation campaign to raise $100 Million over the next three years for building FCA Sports facilities.
• Build a robust training and development plan for the Regional Directors of Donor and Board Advancement. (This includes podcasting, blogging, online training and cutting-edge professional development in the area of donor development.)
• Create a donor-centric-development model for our staff (building on the missionary support model) to include regional and organizational donor-growth strategies.

Friends, I’m grateful to you and grateful for you!

May your Christmas be blessed in the light of our Savior’s love,

David Parks