I Need Your Help!!!

Okay, here's the deal. Today, it finally hit me and I caught it!! (for the full meaning of this, read yesterday's post) Well, God gave me a mission and you are part of it! I need your help being part of a sales pitch and please feel comfortable answering honestly. Depending on what you say, I may or may not go through with this...yikes. Well, so maybe there's a Plan B waiting in the wings just in case this one goes badly wrong. Anyway, like I said before here's the deal...

Most of you that are regular readers of my blog know that I feel God has called me to publish a magazine in my community and possibly on a larger degree in the future. He's probably just waiting on me to hurry up and start handling different things well enough to get that far! If this is your first time reading this blog, don't worry about catching up on the story because the short of it is...God has called me to publish a magazine in my community. So far I've thought I needed money to get this to happen and I have to some degree, but it's always been there right when I needed it in just the right amount. God keeps telling me that His part is to worry about the money, but I keep wanting to worry about it anyway. Every time I finally give up, and sometimes even when I don't, and let Him worry about it, whatever it was that I needed whether it was money or what I needed that could be used or had at no charge. He's been faithful to me, and I know that He will continue to be because no matter what I do, when all is said and done, the only thing that remains is my purpose fulfilled or not.

In the course of developing this magazine, I started getting quotes from different printers. The printer in town, where I had been going to get copies made of the newsletter, had referred me to a printing company about 30 minutes from here. She told me that he specialized in printing church materials and was sure he could give me a good price on doing my magazine. That afternoon I got a really good quote from a printer out of state and then a couple of days later it started looking like I was going to have to put the plans for a magazine on hold for a little while. Needless to say, I ended up losing the card that I'd wrote the information down on for this other printer. Finally, I realized that if God says He's going to do something, then He's going to do it. It may not be on our timeline, but whose to say that it won't be? If God provides the money I need on the day that I need to send my files to the printer and I don't have the files ready, then whose fault is that? Sometimes I'm still a little slow, but the good thing is I'm learning quick and I'm remembering my lessons longer!

Well, I didn't wait till the last minute this time. I started working on the magazine and it's almost ready to go to the printer. Once I knew my heart and my spirit were right, doors started flying open for me to pack this magazine full of stories. Actually, I'm very glad I'm not having to hold to my deadline because there are a couple of stories that I really, really want in this issue. It may be a couple of days beyond my deadline, but I know that it's okay, because it's just a goal to work towards until I reach it or another one takes it's place in priority. If we'd quit looking at it in man's terms of a certain day or hour and started looking at in God's terms of when it's time. He trusts us to do our part and we want to whine and say you first and all He's trying to do is say lets do this together.

Here I am talking about Him trusting me to do this sales pitch (my part) and I'm rambling on. Okay, lets catch you up...magazine needs to be printed, printer specializes in printing church materials, publisher needs a miracle...lol. My co-publisher and I talked today and decided that we want and can put this magazine in most every church in our community. Once I learn how to saturate my own community, then hopefully God will let me bless your community. I guarantee it won't take near as long as it's taking me to figure out how to do it for my own community. It's so hard once you get up and running to not want to start taking two steps at a time instead of just one. Last night was probably the first time that I only fell back one step. It kind of surprised me because I was expecting to tumble down at least a few.

Okay, on with the sales pitch...if I get several copies of this magazine in every church, at least ONE for EACH member, would it not be beneficial for the printer to advertise on the inside covers of the magazine in exchange for printing the magazine for me? Now here's where you become involved, regular readers or if your somebody who is visiting for the first time. Check me out, you are welcome to read every issue I've published before (there on my sidebar) and also every article I've ever posted (there on the other sidebar). That's me...the real me. I know you don't know the printer, but from what I've seen of his work, and heard about him, he does an awesome job and is a good man...and I'm not just saying that. It's the honest truth and the person that told me that and showed me his work will verify it. So, if you wouldn't mind sharing your opinion...if you were the printer what would you say?