The New Hope Publishers staff spent yesterday looking back and learning forward as we reviewed our 2009 and 2010 seasons of books. We discussed acquisition, topic, author, content, cover and packaging, marketing and sales, and whatever else we identified that needed to be reviewed. The day was a day of affirmation, discovery, recovery, reflection, questioning, rethinking, relooking, planning, and just delighting in our wonderful books and authors.
We also discussed our future. We discussed our mission, our operating principles, our publishing plan, and our overall work. God’s faithfulness is evident in more ways than we can begin to give Him thanks. Wow, He is at work!
The day before we met I participated in a seminar for nonprofit managers and discovered a new way to approach our goals and measurements as a nonprofit with a mission that can’t be measured in dollars alone. I can’t wait to have a little time to explore our goals for 2010-2011 through a new process. This will give new meaning to our goals, and I believe we will be even more engaged in the outcomes because we will be connecting the dots between our mission and our vision as never before. Isn’t that what we want for our work and ministry?
Thank you to the many, many friends who sent birthday greetings today. I am deeply grateful for you.
