About Ergatas

Ergatas is completely free to both users and missionaries. Anyone can come to the site and perform a search. When you make a donation to a worker, we collect the funds and transfer them to the workers sending organization, designated for their support. While some bank fees will be deducted from the donation, we do not take any portion of the donation ourselves. You also have the option to cover the bank fees when you make your donation.

Missionaries serving in sensitive locations should be careful what information they provide in their Ergatas profile, as all of it will be publicly visible.

One approach to using Ergatas in that situation is to use an alias in the profile, leave out any photos, and leave the location field blank. Care must also be taken that the provided donation link does not go to a page that lists the missionaries name. In order to ensure the donation makes it to the missionary, the organization receiving the donation must be aware of the alias used, and direct donations for that alias to the true missionary.

Even if an alias is used and no location is given, you should consider what information your profile details may reveal about your location. For example, if you're working with a very small people group that only lives in one location, then specifying that people group would also reveal your location.

We cannot make any guarantees of safety. Each missionary must use their own judgement as to whether or not creating a profile on Ergatas would put them at risk.

Yes, there are a few sites out there that allow you to search through all registered non-profits. Ergatas is different for a few reasons. The main difference is that we focus on individual missionaries. Ergatas aims to help missionaries raise support, not help organizations fund their projects (funding projects is of course a worthy goal, just not our goal!). Of course, the organization benefits by having a fully funded missionary. A second difference is that we are focused only on Christian organizations.

It is critical that users be able to have faith in the validity of the missionaries represented. This is accomplished in a few ways. First, the missionary must select their organization from an approved list. These have been manually inspected to ensure that they are registered 501c(3) organizations, that the given website truly belongs to the organization, and that they are compatible with our statement of faith.

If the missionaries organization is not listed, they may apply to have the organization considered for inclusion.

Secondly, the donation link given in the profile must match the verified domain of the organizations website. The fact that the organization has provided them with a donation link also gives you confidence that the organization has vetted the missionary.

Finally, profiles can be flagged by users for review if anything looks suspicious.

Each missionary will be asked to agree to a statement of faith before creating a profile. Further, users can visit their organizations site and read their statement of faith as well.

It is very often the case that a missionaries partners come from people they have a prior relationship with, and that is a wonderful thing! We firmly believe that missionaries should continue to cultivate relationships with people during partnership development.

But there are also some people who are interested in supporting missionaries who fit certain criteria, even if they don't know the missionary personally. For example, a doctor might want to support a medically skilled missionary. Or someone might want to support those ministering to the totally un-reached. Someone who has a heart for a particular country might want to support a missionary working in that country, etc.

These are the kinds of people that Ergatas will be most helpful to. Of course, once a user finds a missionary to support, we would heartily encourage them to get to know their missionary, build a relationship, and pray for them.

At least once every 2 years, missionaries are required to either update their profile information or confirm that it is still current. Updates are rewarded by causing the profile to show up higher in search results. Any profiles not updated or confirmed within that time will be disabled until an update is made. You can see the last date an update was made on the missionaries profile page.

Yes! Ergatas is a new kind of app called a Progressive Web App. That means you can install it and use it like an app, but you don't have to bother with any app stores.

Ergatas is completely free to both users and missionaries. Our own expenses are covered by the generous donations of users. Our staff raise their own personal support, just like the missionaries we are helping.

We also keep our costs low by taking advantage of non-profit discounts and grants. For example, we didn't pay anything to create this website, and we are currently not paying anything to host it!

Donations can be made on the Ergatas site, or off-site, on the workers own donation page. Workers also have the option to only enable off-site donations. Learn more

Yes! By "claiming" an organization and being approved, you can then create new profiles and edit existing profiles for your organization. This allows one person to manage profiles on behalf of workers who may not have easy internet access.

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A landing page is a collection of worker profiles that are associated with an organization in some way. This may be simply by employment, or something else. For example, a church may want to collect all the workers they partner with, or a mobilization agency could collect workers from their partner agencies.

Once a collection of workers is created, we provide a sharing link like "your-org.ergatas.org", along with a QR code. This link leads to a simplified page that does not have the normal Ergatas menu, but just shows the worker profile cards and search interface. It can also be embedded into an existing webpage (using an iframe), so that it appears to be part of your own website.

Before a landing page can be created for an organization, a member representing that organization must "claim" it. This is done by filling in an application and going through a verification step.

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