Monday, December 05, 2005

MNN Update

I like to give our listeners a update on what's going on here at the 'home front' (Grand Rapids, Michigan). We've got a lot of things in the works right now and we need your prayers.

1. We're getting ready to celebrate our 15th anniversary. We'll be celebrating our 15th year begin in 2006. This will mean some exciting things, but more on this as we get closer.

2. Korean translation is still in the works. I must admit that talks have stalled (all my fault), but I plan to get this going again soon. Currently MNN is available in English, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish.

3. MNN is still making available our church bulletin inserts. Pray that we'll get into more churches. While church have to pay for this, it basically covers our printing and shipping costs. The goal is to keep missions in front of your church each month. Some many churches aren't aware what's happening on the mission field, so we're trying to help.

4. We're getting ready to launch a new program that can help mission agencies get the word out about their organizations. While we think we're doing a good job already, there are many newspaper and magazines that aren't aware that MNN provides great resource for them. So, in the days ahead we hope to inform them abour our service and offer special reports for them.

5. On a side note, pray for our funding. With Hurricane Katrina and other disasters funds have been diverted away from ministries like MNN to help with relief efforts. We traveled to the area in September to help raise awareness and encourage people to give to Katrina relief. Without some of our stories, many of the organizations would have gone unnoticed. Please help if you can.

That'll do it. Thanks for reading this to the end.

Greg Yoder, Anchor & Executive Director