After getting floods of mails recently from the Voice of the Martyrs, Prison Ministry (Angel Tree), etc., I grow sick to my stomach. I mailed these fundraisers back through the included reply mail envelope (especially when postage is not necessary) with the sentence "please take me off your mailing list".
Now the Christian "charity" organizations in the West love their idea of fundraising. I bet they even have a university degree just for this sort of thing. The reason I'm sick of this is because the thought that the secular charities probably have more integrity in their missions.
Christians do not do fundraising, period. It is not biblical. The illusion that St. Paul endorsed fundraising is a common scapegoat for fundraisers because they do not investigate further what Paul was doing.
I was convinced after looking up one of such charity (The Voice of the Martyrs) on a charity monitoring site called "charitynavitagor.org". The keyword I googled was "Voice of the Martyrs scam".
A careful read (historical ratings) shows me that over the years, VOM is spending less and less (from 91% in 2002 to 65% in 2015) on their mission and more and more in fundraising (from 2.5% to 23%), who gets the money? no doubt their staffs. We are talking about $41 millions annual revenue as of 2015.
This is not about whether they are greedy or not. This is about how they make it an organization that runs on fundraising. St. Paul's income came not from fundraising, I am sure of it.
This is not to say that these charities are worthless. They have their use, by God. But that's all about it. My criticism against them stands only against them and not God.
They ought to focus more on real personal fellowships in their ministries, rather than the profits gain via fundraising campaigns.