Where Is The News??

Where is the News?

     Good morning friends!  Some of us are old enough to remember when Wendy’s fast food restaurants ran the “Where is the Beef?” themed commercials.  It showed a lady peering under the bun of competitor’s hamburgers trying to find the beef which indicated that competitors served smaller burgers.  Since we started Living Bridges Ministry, I have felt the same way about our newsletter.  I picture readers reading the whole 4 pages and thinking “Where is the news?”  The templates we had to choose from just didn’t allow us to get as much “news” into the monthly newsletter as we would have liked and my schedule does not allow me to “lay out” my own format! So we have prayed and searched and prayed and searched some more and we think we have found our solution (at least for now!)

    We are going to a quarterly newsletter which will show pictures and give snippets of information just like many of you have already been receiving monthly.  In between those, we will now write a blog.  Those writings will have more details about our programs and more information about exactly what we are doing in our ministry. As readers, you will probably feel more informed and you can easily share these blog posts with anyone you feel would be interested in the information.  By sharing a single blog post instead of a whole 4 page newsletter you can make sure that the person you share with is seeing exactly the information you wanted them to see.

     Another benefit is that we can blog when we have news instead of storing it up for the next newsletter.  This will allow us to share information faster (although we do share relevant information on our Facebook page fairly often!)  It will also allow us to share news that might not have otherwise gotten included in the newsletter due to space limitations!  Often, those stories are the ones about how God is really working in our ministry!  Stories like how we got the use of the picture of the living bridges that we use on our website and our Facebook page from an award winning photographer for only $100 because he admired what we were going to be doing! Or about how when we are low on funds and have an insurance payment due or other large expense coming up, a check shows up at just the right moment which has happened quite often over the last year (we call this Manna for Today!) Or how when it was 38 degrees outside (at the start), we had one of our largest turn outs ever for an event at our Birthday Party for Jesus! Those moments make us laugh, cry and give thanks and praise to God, but often, because we are trying to get news out about activities within the ministry, you aren’t hearing those stories! So we look forward to sharing more with you this year! We would also like to thank you for your prayers, comments, support, and for sharing our information with others as we continue our ministry in South Valdosta!