Archive for business as mission

May
3

Welcome John Thomas, New Hope Marketing and Sales Manager!

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Please join me in welcoming John Thomas to New Hope Publishers! I really had no intention of interviewing John when I received his resume, but through a series of events orchestrated by our wonderful God, I decided I needed to talk with him.  And I am so very glad I did! His vision for New Hope is evident. It’s hard to believe he has only been here a couple of weeks.

 I didn’t imagine the Lord would bring someone like John, a combination of marketer, thinker, theologian, educator, and above all, pastor. His heart and energy are evident in the fact that he and his wife adopted a baby girl after they had grandchildren! And if this isn’t enough, he loves to laugh—that has to be a requirement around here. (I would think anyone with grandchildren who adopts a baby would have to be able to laugh!)

 John is married to his high school sweetheart, Ann. They have three adult sons, two daughters-in-law, and four grandchildren. They are also the proud adoptive parents of Addie Beth, a 23 month old baby girl.

Joining the New Hope team has returned John to his roots. Growing up in the family printing business, he learned all things ink and paper: sales to concept to design to production to delivery. For John, clearly communicating the gospel through print and digital media is crucial to fulfilling the Great Commission and the Great Commandment. Helping churches get on mission is his passion.

 In addition to his sales and marketing experience, John has served as both a pastor and educator. He has served churches in Florida, Alabama, Kentucky, and Mississippi. He is a graduate of The Baptist College of Florida (B.A.), and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div., Th.M., and Ph.D.).

 God’s plans are always better than ours. He has proven this again and again. We are indeed grateful that John has joined the New Hope team.

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Mar
2

Stewarding God’s Business

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by Mark L. Russell 

David is the son of a pastor. He had 5 siblings, all of whom followed in their father’s footsteps and went into traditional full-time ministry. David went another direction; he chose to go into business. 

Feeling like a second-class citizen compared to his siblings in ministry, he started working in retail stores, eventually becoming a store manager. After a while he started making his own frames in his garage, getting his 2 young sons to help him glue the frames together.

Using the profits from selling the frames, David and his wife, Barbara, opened a small 300-square-foot retail store of their own. From the beginning of their business, they were committed to making it God’s business and operating it like a ministry.

Through the years David says they have made many difficult decisions, because they sensed those decisions were God’s will, even though they could have weakened the company financially.

Initially, their business was always closed on Sundays. But one year a competitor moved into their area and made it clear they were determined to eliminate David’s stores. Nervous about the consequences of remaining closed on Sunday, David and Barbara made the decision to open on Sundays. The stores took off, and there was a marked increase in revenue.

However, after some time, they realized that they should remain closed on Sundays in order to honor God and allow their many employees to attend church. Though they were still nervous about being closed on Sundays, they nevertheless proceeded to be closed that day every week.

Eventually, David says they realized their decision to close the stores on Sundays did not really affect the bottom line. Rather, they have been able to attract better managers and have not seen revenue drop.

Serving God and Ministering to Others

They have remained committed to employee well-being, now paying a minimum wage of $12 an hour to full-time employees—even though the minimum wage is much lower and competitors pay significantly less. Again, this financial decision was made to honor their employees. David says his company has not suffered financially as it attracts more loyal employees (lowering the cost of employee turnover) and employees perform better.

They have legally structured the business so that there are no individual rights. Rights belong to the family.  They have put in writing that if the company is sold 90 percent is to go to missions and ministries, Davis says. The other 10 percent would take care of their children and grandchildren: for their education, medical issues, or other needs, but not salary.

“This is God’s business. We are the stewards of the business, not the owners,” David says.

His and his wife’s tiny 300-square-foot retail shop has grown since the early 1970s. Their company, Hobby Lobby, has 499 different retail stores in 41 states (as of February 2012), no long-term debt, and in 2011 made more than $2 billion in revenue.

Despite David and Barbara Green’s tremendous success, their goal of serving God and ministering to others through their business remains the same.

Editor’s note: One of David Green’s sons, Mart Green, is the founder and CEO of Mardel, a Christian and educational resource supply company that carries books from New Hope Publishers.

Mark Russell, author of The Missional Entrepreneur, is a widely respected voice in the missional community. He has lived in Russia, Chile, and Germany, and has traveled to more than 70 countries to carry out a variety of business, educational, humanitarian, and religious projects. Contact Mark through www.russell-media.com; www.facebook.com/marklrussell; www.twitter.com/marklrussell.

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Aug
22

Tough Economic Times Expose Our True Values

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by Mark Russell

In the midst of trying economic times, people are often faced with difficult decisions. These pressures reveal what is deep in our hearts and souls and what we truly value.

There have been other economic recessions, downturns, and slowdowns, and we can learn from those who have traveled through them. Particularly during the first half of the 1980s, many people in the US heartland went through painfully stressful and turbulent economic times. This period is now known as the farm crisis of the 1980s.

Bankruptcy?

One North Dakota farmer named Howard Dahl found himself in a particular pinch. His agricultural company owed money to 230 different suppliers. Consultants came in and said that in order to protect his assets, he needed to declare bankruptcy.

The consultants told him if he were to let his suppliers know what a difficult spot he was in it would prompt them to take legal action against him, which would cause him to lose more of his assets. Eventually, the bank called in Dahl’s line of credit and told his company that they too wanted them to declare bankruptcy.

The logical, reasonable business decision was to declare bankruptcy and count it as a lesson learned. But Howard Dahl operated by a different set of values. He took to heart verses like, “’The laborer deserves his wages’” (1 Timothy 5:18, ESV). He knew that it did not profit a man to lose his soul for wealth. He was committed to keeping his word and paying everyone everything back.

Straight Shooter

He wrote a letter to every single supplier explaining his financial situation and communicated regularly over the next two years. He personally answered the phone when an angry supplier called because he didn’t want his staff to suffer their abuse.

Slowly but surely, his company worked itself out of the hole and believe it or not, he was able to pay back every single supplier. Contrary to what he was told, only one of the 230 suppliers ever took legal action against him. I suppose people appreciate an honest, straight shooter even when the message is unpleasant.

What is even more impressive is just a few short years after this painstaking turnaround, in 1996, Howard Dahl was able to sell his company for millions to the Case Corporation. A transaction he never would have enjoyed had he filed for bankruptcy.

Upside-Down Kingdom Values Prevail

The moral of the story for me is that you don’t have to put money first to be successful in business. Had Howard Dahl only cared about the money, he would have gotten out when things were bad. Instead he cared about biblical values and he cared about doing what is right. In the end, he was blessed for it.

Mark Russell is a widely respected voice in the missional community. He has lived in Russia, Chile, and Germany, and has traveled to more than 70 countries to carry out a variety of business, educational, humanitarian, and religious projects. He is the author of The Missional Entrepreneur.

All Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Jul
2

The Radical Nature of the Gospel

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Today is the Salvation Army Founder’s Day, the anniversary of the first tent meeting at which William Booth preached on the Quaker Burial Ground in Whitechapel, London. His life is an example of the Christian pioneers mentioned in Hebrews 12 and reminds us of our accountability to live out the radical nature of the gospel in bringing Christ to the world.

Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. Hebrews 12:1–2, The Message

William Booth was born in Nottingham in 1829. While working as an apprentice in a pawnbroker’s shop he became aware of the humiliation experienced by the poor. During his teenage years he became a Christian and spent much of his spare time trying to persuade other people to become Christians too.

After his marriage to Catherine Mumford in 1855 he spent several years as a Methodist minister, traveling all around the country, preaching, and sharing God’s word to all who would listen. Yet he felt that God wanted more from him, that he should be doing more to reach ordinary people. He returned to London with his family, having resigned his position as a Methodist minister.

One day in 1865 he found himself in the East End of London, preaching to crowds of people in the streets. Outside the Blind Beggar pub some missioners heard him speaking and were so impressed by his powerful preaching that they asked him to lead a series of meetings they were holding in a large tent. The date for the first meeting was set for July 2, 1865. To the poor and wretched of London’s East End, Booth brought the good news of Jesus Christ and his love for all men. Booth soon realized he had found his destiny. He formed his own movement, which he called “The Christian Mission.”

The work was hard and Booth would ‘stumble home night after night haggard with fatigue, often his clothes were torn and bloody bandages swathed his head where a stone had struck’, wrote his wife. Evening meetings were held in an old warehouse where urchins threw stones and fireworks through the window. It was not until 1878 when The Christian Mission changed its name to The Salvation Army that things began to happen. The impetus changed. The idea of an Army fighting sin caught the imagination of the people and the Army began to grow rapidly. Booth’s fiery sermons and sharp imagery drove the message home and more and more people found themselves willing to leave their past behind and start a new life as a soldier in The Salvation Army. By the time of Booth’s death in 1912 the Army was at work in 58 countries.

Booth’s heart is revealed in these words: “While women weep, as they do now, I’ll fight; while little children go hungry, as they do now, I’ll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I’ll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I’ll fight-I’ll fight to the very end!”

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Jun
29

International Business Equals Gospel Opportunity

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by Mark L. Russell

For most people, the word missionary implies living in another culture. I have spent a great deal of time overseas, traveling to more than 70 countries. Totaling my travel time and years spent living in Russia, Germany, and Chile, I have 10 years of international experience (about a quarter of my life so far). Nevertheless, I have also spent a lot of my energies arguing that the essence of being a missionary is living in God’s mission wherever you are.

I do believe God calls us all to be missionaries, but God does call some of us to spend some time overseas living cross-culturally. That could be for a couple of years or maybe even for a lifetime. Increasingly, people from a business background are being called to live overseas and utilize their unique business calling and background to make an impact for the kingdom of God.

One businessman whom I know sensed a call to go to a country in a part of the world very hostile to the gospel of Christ. He started working for a telecom company owned and operated by a famous individual from the region. This man is internationally known to be hostile to the gospel.

My friend worked within the company to build trust and develop friendships. In the context of these relationships he began to expose colleagues to views on God and life that they had never before considered.

Several years ago, before most Americans were really catching on, my friend realized that Twitter could be a useful tool for mobilizing people, even in this hostile country. As a result, he worked through his colleagues and his company to educate citizens on the use of social media and how it could be used to communicate with others in short bits. 

While my friend is first and foremost a citizen of the kingdom of God, he has equipped the people of the country where he now lives with tools to express themselves in a context where freedom of speech is violently stifled. Freedom of speech leads to freedom of religion.

Most American Christians don’t realize or grasp the fact that millions of people in many parts of the world are denied free access to hearing the gospel. They have no opportunity to respond to Christ. Throughout many regions, people are given one view of god/gods/God and life, and then are forced to accept it. No alternative ideas are tolerated.

Like a medicine slowly working its way through the veins of a body, so my friend’s strategy is slowly working its way through a country in desperate need of freedom. Let’s pray for the eternal healing of Jesus Christ to follow.

Mark Russell is a widely respected voice in the missional community. He has traveled extensively to carry out a variety of business, educational, humanitarian, and religious projects. He is the author of The Missional Entrepreneur.

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Jun
29

Thinking of East Asia

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It’s been about 2 weeks since I returned from East Asia. My wife, Kay, and I had a great 11-day trip reconnecting with friends we’d made during the 3-plus years we lived there last decade. We had some good times of prayer on this trip and got to share from our hearts with some new friends as well.

Security concerns do not allow me to go into all the details I’d love to relate to you. You’re always welcome to stop by the New Hope offices in Birmingham to hear more; my co-worker Jonathan Howe will also enjoy showing you the nice yak he now has in his cubicle—a gift from me. (Go to New Hope’s Facebook page and name the yak. The name with the most likes will win a New Hope prize pack.)

I do want to share a few impressions from my trip that may be informative to those interested in cultures, globalization, and missions.

  • The primary inland city we visited has a population around 11 million. We taxied around only a small portion of the city but saw 2 Apple stores. At least, they looked like official Apple stores. Four years ago, the closest thing I could find was an authorized Apple reseller. In June 2011 I saw a not-so-trivial number of iPhones and iPads.
  • The airlines in Asia still think flying should be pleasurable. I was fed on a flight that lasted only an hour! When I flew from Vancouver to Chicago (like 4 hours) I got nothing other than some water or soda.
  • Forget facebook.com and twitter.com. Both are blocked to the average Internet user there.
  • The declining value of the US dollar is painful for those living and traveling overseas. I remember when I could about 25 percent more of the local currency per dollar than I can get now.
  • Some Tibetan areas once fairly open to tourism a decade ago are less open than they once were. Tense times in light of protests, earthquakes, etc. This is the opposite of what we expected back in 2002. (For those interested in contemporary life in Tibetan areas, you may find this documentary interesting. http://www.khamfilmproject.org/SummerPasture.php. I  have only watched the preview, but it looks insightful. )
  • The number of young people wearing shorts seems to me to have skyrocketed. I don’t remember hardly anyone wearing shorts just 4 years ago. Ditto for Western-style T-shirts, sometimes with Western slogans, icons, or fantasy characters. The days of every man in a cheap black suit coat, a white button-down shirt, and dress pants are over. The number of women in ridiculously high heels has stayed about the same—way too many.
  • Public displays of affection. Imitating the West is not the best choice in this case, I think.
  • Lots of young men with girlfriends on their arms this summer. I’m not opposed to this per se, but I think it reflects a cultural shift and a larger problem—namely, East Asia too has adopted the hypersexualized tendencies of the West. Movies, TV shows, clothing, societal changes, etc. When I first visited Asia in 1997, many young men walked down the street with an arm around the shoulder of another young man. This was considered culturally normal and completely nonsexual. Times have changed. Innocence lost.
  • Travel is still sketchy beyond the main cities. On our way back from a Tibetan town, our bus stopped for an hour because of some minor flooding over a dirt road. The 3 guys with pickaxes who came out to fix the problem didn’t do much for anybody. At least this traffic jam was moderately amusing.
  • We had a meal interrupted by a rat, and a cockroach fell onto my neck when shopping for contact lenses. This was in the big city, mind you.
  • The Tibetan “Podunk” town we first visited in 2001 is now a major tourist destination. Someone told me it gets 3 million visitors a year. I can’t confirm that, but I can confirm there are major hotels on every corner, and I can’t recognize the place anymore. Yes, there’s a real Sheraton being built there as I write.
  • The food still tastes as good as ever. Gong bao jiding (kung pao) chicken never tasted so good to me. Different peppers and different spices. I even got to bring back some tsampa (zam pa), the unofficial Tibetan national food, to share with co-workers.
  • There are many millions of people in East Asia who still need to hear the gospel, many for the very first time.
  • House churches continue to make great strides in reaching out to other ethnic groups. But there is still much training needed.
  • Business as mission is an important, timely, and relevant concept that many people, including local believers, are trying to figure out in real-life. It can be messy; it can be fun.
  • Making disciples who make disciples who make disciples is the key.
  • Smaller and smaller people groups are now being reached with the gospel. That’s great news! The task is nearing completion. Come, Lord Jesus, come.

May the Lord be glorified in and through His church throughout the world.

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Jun
18

Jamoat (Community) in Uzbekistan

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As we consider discipleship this month on New Hope Digital, we can learn what discipleship includes through the ministry of missionaries in other countries. I asked to share this recent news from a mission servant in Uzbekistan. His report provides an excellent example discipleship, the approaches we can use, and the impact it can make on a life. I’ve included a reminder of the persecution believers face in Uzbekistan.

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Like anything with life, growth and change are inevitable. What we find God has for us today is very different than it was when I first came, and even very different than last year, or last week. It’s a constant effort to resist doing what we have always done and always ask the questions:

1. What is most needed in the Kingdom effort in our region?

2. What are we uniquely gifted to do?

3. What opportunities do we have to serve?

4. What roles and responsibilities do we have to maintain?

Most obvious for us is something that began in the spring of 2005. A Bible study with our teammates and a handful of Uzbek believers quickly morphed into a weekly fellowship. Jamoat as we refer to it, meaning “Community.”This fellowship has gone through many changes and currently meets in a home each Sunday doing a study through the book of James. The children have a story time and games or drawing connected to the day’s theme. There are now 3 families, a married woman with her 3 children and one single lady that come rather consistently. That gives us 12 adults and 6 children excluding our family.

We spend most of every Sunday together, having a meal after our gathering and sometimes going to a park or swimming on hot summer days. It’s more like a family than the traditional idea of a gathering. In addition to Sunday, a ladies’ prayer time has become standard each week with 4 or 5 ladies attending, including one all-nighter each month.

We have been part of a network of workers since 2000. We still maintain those relationships and have partnered to run seminary classes, a marriage retreat and a youth festival in recent years.

In our effort to train leaders locally we are restarting a seminary program which runs once a month for 2-3 days year round all in Uzbek without translation.

Last year we held our first marriage retreat with 10 Uzbek couples attending. That retreat was led by an Uzbek couple from Uzbekistan and turned out to address a real needy area. We followed up by gathering for Valentine’s Day this year and hope to further disciple marriages to forge Biblical marriages in the blossoming Uzbek believing community.

We also hosted a youth festival last summer, mostly coordinated by Uzbeks with one young pastor addressing the youth. Godly relationships among the youth are critical and finding those with a passion for that ministry was a delight.

A women’s prayer group has since grown to 2 groups meeting in various homes in the city. Many women come who can not attend weekly fellowships due to family pressure.

Another aspect of the network is shared resources. We have come into a rather large supply of books and videos, as well as audio materials. These are always made available to leaders in other villages or fellowships across the city. Currently our primary role in this task is CD and DVD duplication with literally thousands distributed. Over 100 cases of new Scripture portions also came in January which were promptly sent to 5 leaders for safe keeping and use in their own ministries.

We have a conviction that all brothers and sisters in this city and region are placed here by God, that we are ONE and that God intends us to work in cooperation for the furtherance of His Kingdom among all peoples.

One ministry is that of radio. Programs are written and recorded nearby for every language across Central Asia, including Uzbek. We have provided them with every resource we have in Uzbek so they have everything available at their fingertips should the need arise.

Last year while talking with a pastor in a village who has a great concern for the growing Uzbek believing community in his region he mentioned that they all have trouble providing for their families. That led to us giving a $1,000 interest free loan thru this pastor to buy a cow that could serve as additional income for an Uzbek man leading a house group in a nearby village.

Than another family came with a similar situation and we gave another loan for livestock. Then a loan for seed to plant in spring to a believing Kurdish family with no income. One turned out extremely well, one OK and I think one was a failure. We have learned from those experiences and now look for opportunities to give loans or partner with others to get them on their feet rather than the age old practice of handouts which have done so much damage.

We bought a fixer-upper last year and are now remodeling that house to resell. We go to the worksite almost every day, pray together and are learning how to seek each other’s good and even resolve differences, all under the constant view of our families and the 3 unbelieving Uzbek men who work for us.

We are seeing many advantages to this type of setup:

1 Getting our friends on their feet financially

2. Living and working together as a real life discipleship

3. Giving us a great witness before unbelieving workers

4. Giving us a presence in a new Uzbek neighborhood and already dozens of new friends.

5. Giving me another understandable identity as a businessman

 

With the understanding that as always, God is more concerned about growing us as His servants than about the work we do for Him, we constantly struggle to make time for a growing relationship with God. Growing in intimacy and developing habits that keep us moving in that direction is a priority.

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Jun
1

The Invention of the Phonograph and NewHopeDigital.com

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I recently stood on the lawn of Thomas Edison’s winter home in Fort Myers, Florida. As much as I marvel at his brilliance, I was most impressed with the reason for his inventions. He invented because he saw the needs of the world and wanted to meet those needs. From light bulbs to rubber plants, his goal was to help humanity.

One of the needs he addressed was that of making information accessible to every person in the world. This led to the invention of the phonograph. By 1888 he was producing phonographs for families to purchase for their homes. In an article for the North American Journal, he wrote, “The speeches of orators, the discourses of clergymen, can be had ‘on tap,’ in every house that owns a phonograph.”

Edison’s vision for  the phonograph was 10 years in the making. He believed a time was coming when words would be recorded and heard by people in every home in every nation. Even when he began to sell the phonograph he produced a standardized model to insure every country would be able to use it. He wrote, “a record put upon the machine in New York could be placed on another machine of the same pattern in China and speak exactly as it was spoken to on this continent.” In his article he gave example after example of ways the phonograph would change communication. As we know, it did exactly that.

Like Edison, Great Commission publishers hunger to find new ways to bring the transformational words of their authors to a world where every kind of content is accessible. The need for more Christian content is evident. Who would have dreamed of the proliferation of pornography and violence unavoidable except by complete disengagement from TV and the Web? Who would have imagined that our world would allow a new Web domain just for pornographic content? I suggest it is time for a new domain called .God. While I haven’t invented .God, I do have a vision for delivering Christ-inspired content where every heart and mind can choose to respond, where Christ is already at work making Himself known.

When we first began our journey that has led to NewHopeDigital.com we didn’t realize the ability of our staff and the shared vision of our authors to make this a reality. But when God gives the vision, He also provides everything needed to accomplish it. Thomas Edison said, “If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.” The Bible states, “In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory” (Ephesians 1:11-12 ESV).

New Hope Digital is to the praise of His glory for it brings the needs of the world together with the God-given expertise, ministries, and messages of New Hope’s authors to create a global discussion and response. Our authors are not only writers, but Christ-followers actively involved in living out their faith.

Yesterday’s phonograph is today’s instant message. I believe God knew the spiritual needs of the world would require far more than phonographs in the twenty-first century. New Hope Publishers and our authors share a passion to make Christ known through every means we are capable of providing. We pray NewHopeDigital.com will inspire and encourage you as a Christ follower and that God will empower you to serve Him in your home, your community, and the world.

“Christ himself wrote it—not with ink, but with God’s living Spirit; not chiseled into stone, but carved into human lives—and we publish it” (2 Corinthians 3:3 MSG).

All Scripture quotations marked ESV are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture marked MSG taken from The Message. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.

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May
19

Mark Russell: Business as Mission

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Mark Russell, a respected international voice on business as mission, discusses the subject with New Hope Digital. Learn how we can live out God’s mission every day in our workplaces.

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Mar
21

New Hope Digital Coming Soon!

by Andrea Mullins

In case you missed the exciting announcement that New Hope Digital is coming in mid April, here is our press release. Visit the link and sign up to receive more information as well as our newsletter.

(Birmingham, Ala.)—March 9, 2011—As book publishing rapidly enters an exciting new era of connectivity, New Hope Publishers is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of NewHopeDigital.com this April. NewHopeDigital.com is an innovative Web venture, providing readers and retailers with fresh content from top authors in multiple digital formats.

NewHopeDigital.com will feature regularly updated magazine-style content—articles, columns, feature stories, podcasts, videos—from New Hope authors and other contributors. In addition to featuring the latest book releases, each month the site will have a specific theme, such as orphan care, human exploitation, the persecuted church, and missional living.

“New Hope authors are making an impact for Christ, and through New Hope Digital, readers and retailers will be able to read, listen, watch, and interact with them regarding relevant, contemporary issues all in one place,” says publisher Andrea Mullins. “We are praying that our unique approach will be transformational in the lives of believers and will be a tool that retailers can use to connect their customers to the books that will be most helpful in their spiritual journeys.”

The New Hope fold of authors has been very receptive to the concept. “NewHopeDigital.com will provide me an opportunity to go deeper and connect with readers and retailers in an exciting new venue,” says top-selling New Hope author Jennifer Kennedy Dean, best known for her Live a Praying Life resources. “Since most of us live a cyberlife, NewHopeDigital.com fits right into the flow of information that I value and look forward to.”

New Hope author Mark Russell (The Missional Entrepreneur) says, “The church needs a place to explore complex human issues, discover the comprehensive vision of God’s mission, and how these two realities can come together. I’m excited about New Hope Digital because it gives us a conversation space to learn from one another in our God-given mandate to love him and our global neighbor.”

To find out more and to sign up for a free monthly e-newsletter and receive a free download of iFaith by Daniel Darling on the Nook platform, please visit the promotional site at NewHopeDigital.com today.

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