Haggai International 
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Summary
We believe that strategically positioned, influential leaders are catalyst for local people experiencing life change, community transformation, and nations being redeemed. We also believe that leaders need equipping and encouraging to achieve exponential impact and sustainable momentum.
We select, equip, multiply, and encourage difference-makers all across the globe. We have equipped over 125,000 strategically positioned leaders in 189 nations who are committed to ending Gospel poverty.
We are called to inspire and equip those already living, working, and serving in the places where Gospel poverty exists. We believe our leaders possess a clear advantage in reaching their own people with the Gospel.
Contact information
Mailing address:
Haggai International
4725 Peachtree Corners Circle
Suite 200
Peachtree Corners, GA 30092-2573
Website: www.haggai-international.org
Phone: (770) 449-8869
Email: [email protected]
Organization details
EIN: 580898309
CEO/President: Dr. Bev Upton Williams
Chairman: Tom Ferguson
Board size: 19
Founder: Dr. John Edmund Haggai
Ruling year: 1963
Tax deductible: Yes
Fiscal year end: 03/31
Member of ECFA: Yes
Member of ECFA since: 2014
Purpose
Our vision is to see every nation redeemed and transformed through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
There is no shortcut, no easy way. Governments cannot bring peace. Education cannot bring salvation. Business and industry cannot bring healing. Psychology and sociology cannot bring joy. Only Jesus can bring reconciliation to the world.
Mission statement
At the core of our mission are strategically positioned leaders who are multiplying their influence with one purpose in mind - to end Gospel poverty. Our mission is to equip and inspire those leaders to more effectively demonstrate and present the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to prepare others to do the same.
Statement of faith
We believe the Bible to be the inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God, without error in the original writings.
We believe in one God, Creator of all things, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in three Persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We believe that by one man, Adam, sin entered the world; that for the salvation of lost and sinful men, regeneration by the Holy Spirit through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is absolutely essential.
We believe in the deity and virgin birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, that He died upon the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice for the sin of the world and that He arose from the dead and ascended into Heaven, from whence He will return with power and glory.
We believe in the doctrine of justification by faith, realizing it is impossible for man, through works, to please God or save himself.
We believe in life after death; that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.
We believe in the resurrection of the saved unto everlasting life in Heaven and the resurrection of the lost or unsaved unto eternal punishment.
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, Whose indwelling enables the Christian to live a godly life.
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Transparency grade
A
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Financial efficiency ratings
Sector: Leadership Training
| Category | Rating | Overall rank | Sector rank |
| Overall efficiency rating | | 1056 of 1077 | 23 of 23 |
| Fund acquisition rating | | 959 of 1078 | 22 of 23 |
| Resource allocation rating | | 992 of 1078 | 22 of 23 |
| Asset utilization rating | | 963 of 1077 | 21 of 23 |
Financial ratios
| Funding ratios | Sector median | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
Return on fundraising efforts Return on fundraising efforts = Fundraising expense / Total contributions | 11% | 20% | 28% | 28% | 22% | 16% |
Fundraising cost ratio Fundraising cost ratio = Fundraising expense / Total revenue | 7% | 17% | 25% | 23% | 19% | 15% |
Contributions reliance Contributions reliance = Total contributions / Total revenue | 99% | 85% | 87% | 82% | 85% | 92% |
Fundraising expense ratio Fundraising expense ratio = Fundraising expense / Total expenses | 8% | 22% | 19% | 17% | 18% | 18% |
Other revenue reliance Other revenue reliance = Total other revenue / Total revenue | 1% | 15% | 13% | 18% | 15% | 8% |
| Operating ratios | Sector median | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
Program expense ratio Program expense ratio = Program services / Total expenses | 79% | 65% | 71% | 74% | 71% | 71% |
Spending ratio Spending ratio = Total expenses / Total revenue | 89% | 78% | 128% | 135% | 106% | 82% |
Program output ratio Program output ratio = Program services / Total revenue | 70% | 51% | 91% | 99% | 75% | 58% |
Savings ratio Savings ratio = Surplus (deficit) / Total revenue | 11% | 22% | -28% | -35% | -6% | 18% |
Reserve accumulation rate Reserve accumulation rate = Surplus (deficit) / Net assets | 16% | 9% | -12% | -10% | -2% | 7% |
General and admin ratio General and admin ratio = Management and general expense / Total expenses | 11% | 13% | 10% | 10% | 11% | 11% |
| Investing ratios | Sector median | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
Total asset turnover Total asset turnover = Total expenses / Total assets | 1.30 | 0.29 | 0.48 | 0.36 | 0.30 | 0.28 |
Degree of long-term investment Degree of long-term investment = Total assets / Total current assets | 1.08 | 1.32 | 1.47 | 1.48 | 1.46 | 1.48 |
Current asset turnover Current asset turnover = Total expenses / Total current assets | 1.56 | 0.38 | 0.71 | 0.53 | 0.43 | 0.41 |
| Liquidity ratios | Sector median | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
Current ratio Current ratio = Total current assets / Total current liabilities | 9.78 | 27.45 | 13.18 | 13.49 | 21.69 | 26.44 |
Current liabilities ratio Current liabilities ratio = Total current liabilities / Total current assets | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.04 |
Liquid reserve level Liquid reserve level = (Total current assets - Total current liabilities) / (Total expenses / 12) | 7.49 | 30.35 | 15.63 | 20.92 | 26.53 | 28.27 |
| Solvency ratios | Sector median | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
Liabilities ratio Liabilities ratio = Total liabilities / Total assets | 12% | 7% | 11% | 10% | 8% | 8% |
Debt ratio Debt ratio = Debt / Total assets | 0% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% |
Reserve coverage ratio Reserve coverage ratio = Net assets / Total expenses | 65% | 321% | 185% | 250% | 310% | 334% |
Financials
| Balance sheet | |||||
| Assets | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
| Cash | $4,007,411 | $3,288,488 | $4,181,720 | $4,147,173 | $3,787,774 |
| Receivables, inventories, prepaids | $133,700 | $311,235 | $1,210,301 | $1,921,365 | $2,257,690 |
| Short-term investments | $25,212,585 | $18,007,421 | $20,458,303 | $22,647,016 | $22,546,254 |
| Other current assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total current assets | $29,353,696 | $21,607,144 | $25,850,324 | $28,715,554 | $28,591,718 |
| Long-term investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Fixed assets | $8,440,796 | $9,930,614 | $11,475,576 | $12,552,476 | $13,232,590 |
| Other long-term assets | $886,384 | $298,925 | $919,985 | $521,740 | $597,540 |
| Total long-term assets | $9,327,180 | $10,229,539 | $12,395,561 | $13,074,216 | $13,830,130 |
| Total assets | $38,680,876 | $31,836,683 | $38,245,885 | $41,789,770 | $42,421,848 |
| Liabilities | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
| Payables and accrued expenses | $460,369 | $950,063 | $1,255,666 | $777,835 | $575,465 |
| Other current liabilities | $609,011 | $689,040 | $661,025 | $546,127 | $505,980 |
| Total current liabilities | $1,069,380 | $1,639,103 | $1,916,691 | $1,323,962 | $1,081,445 |
| Debt | $207,661 | $251,237 | $293,343 | $333,878 | $372,905 |
| Due to (from) affiliates | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other long-term liabilities | $1,542,652 | $1,602,362 | $1,687,440 | $1,748,026 | $1,962,012 |
| Total long-term liabilities | $1,750,313 | $1,853,599 | $1,980,783 | $2,081,904 | $2,334,917 |
| Total liabilities | $2,819,693 | $3,492,702 | $3,897,474 | $3,405,866 | $3,416,362 |
| Net assets | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
| Without donor restrictions | $34,333,810 | $27,268,781 | $33,168,417 | $36,529,853 | $36,077,489 |
| With donor restrictions | $1,527,373 | $1,075,200 | $1,179,994 | $1,854,051 | $2,927,997 |
| Net assets | $35,861,183 | $28,343,981 | $34,348,411 | $38,383,904 | $39,005,486 |
| Revenues and expenses | |||||
| Revenue | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
| Total contributions | $12,282,230 | $10,478,408 | $8,327,068 | $9,914,007 | $13,041,222 |
| Program service revenue | $52,600 | $625,439 | $504,942 | $389,124 | $386,128 |
| Membership dues | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Investment income | $1,433,968 | $866,640 | $1,309,264 | $1,406,573 | $783,525 |
| Other revenue | $645,613 | $29,837 | $21,506 | $21,533 | $20,277 |
| Total other revenue | $2,132,181 | $1,521,916 | $1,835,712 | $1,817,230 | $1,189,930 |
| Total revenue | $14,414,411 | $12,000,324 | $10,162,780 | $11,731,237 | $14,231,152 |
| Expenses | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
| Program services | $7,292,353 | $10,863,331 | $10,090,450 | $8,856,075 | $8,320,395 |
| Management and general | $1,481,226 | $1,521,587 | $1,314,289 | $1,348,488 | $1,260,646 |
| Fundraising | $2,410,878 | $2,944,128 | $2,322,255 | $2,183,338 | $2,094,745 |
| Total expenses | $11,184,457 | $15,329,046 | $13,726,994 | $12,387,901 | $11,675,786 |
| Change in net assets | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
| Surplus (deficit) | $3,229,954 | ($3,328,722) | ($3,564,214) | ($656,664) | $2,555,366 |
| Other changes in net assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total change in net assets | $3,229,954 | ($3,328,722) | ($3,564,214) | ($656,664) | $2,555,366 |
Compensation
| Name | Title | Compensation |
| Dr John Edmund Haggai | Founder (deceased 11/2020) | $316,793 |
| Dr Beverly Upton | CEO | $262,556 |
| Ms Louisa Mouchet | CFO | $192,250 |
| Mr Gary Key | Advancement Director | $190,582 |
| Mr Milton Key | Advancement Director | $177,911 |
| Ms Camille Hernandez | Advancement Director | $162,527 |
| Mr Scott Halquist | Advancement Director | $153,115 |
| Mr John Bachman | Treasurer/CGIO | $152,620 |
| Mr James D Thomas | Advancement Director | $149,806 |
| Mr David Davis | Advancement Director | $149,378 |
| Mr Albert Sams | VP IT | $143,547 |
| Mr Jeff Cluxton | Advancement Director | $127,302 |
| Ms Beverly Kay Seidel | Assistant Secretary | $76,233 |
Compensation data as of: 3/31/2021
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History
Our Founder
John Edmund Haggai has been called a visionary, a Christian world statesman, an evangelist, and a master of the pulpit - all of which is true of this dynamic man of God.
Never content to follow the crowd, Dr. Haggai initiated a unique and forward-thinking mission plan in obedience to the Great Commission. A visit to Asia in the early 1960s convinced Haggai that changes in global geopolitics, brought about by the end of colonialism, required a new strategy for world evangelism. In 1969, after years of research, prayer, and development, he presided over the first advanced leadership seminar, designed to empower and mobilize nationals to reach their own people for Christ.
Haggai International has equipped and motivated more than 125,000 Christian clergy and lay leaders working in almost all the non-Western countries of the world. They multiply their effectiveness significantly by passing on their training to an average of 100 other leaders.
An alumnus of Moody Bible Institute (where he was named "Alumnus of the Year") and Furman University and the recipient of honorary doctorates on both sides of the Pacific, Dr. John Haggai lived unflinchingly by his own motto: Attempt something so great for God, it's doomed to failure unless God be in it.
He authored more than a dozen books, including How to Win Over Worry, The Influential Leader, My Son Johnny (who died in 1975 in his 25th year) and Success Secrets of the Bible.
John Edmund Haggai was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the eldest son of a Syrian immigrant and a New Englander whose English ancestors settled in America during the 1600s. While at Moody, he met and married Christine Barker of Bristol, Virginia. Atlanta, Georgia, was their base of ministry since 1961. (Mrs. Haggai went to be with the Lord in August 2019, a week after their 74th wedding anniversary. John Haggai was reunited with her and their son, Johnny, in Heaven on November 18, 2020.)
For a timeline, visit: haggai-international.org/our-history/
Program accomplishments
Haggai has equipped and inspired over 135,000 leaders in 189 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East during the last 53 years.