Building Blocks for Publishing a Magazine

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Not everyone knows how magazines are made. We thought you might enjoy learning about the steps we take to publish the Loaves & Fishes magazine. 
—Lavern Gingerich 

Preparation

• Read good books
• Pray for direction and wisdom

Vision

• This vision will help chart a course for the new issue
• Create task spreadsheet and working folder for the team

Content

• Get chapters from continued series
• Choose quality prisoner writings from the collection
• Search and brainstorm for suitable short writings

Communication

• Give assignments to the writers
• Notify the editors about the tasks
• Establish an approximate finish date

Editing

• Fix grammar and spelling mistakes
• Improve the flow and language for our audience
• Get approval for changes where needed

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What Written Words Can Do

Inspiration

Missionary stories often involve answered prayers and brushes with death in foreign lands or starving children being fed. It’s easy to get an emotional response when you talk about preaching the Gospel to the uncivilized or saving the lives of children with bloated stomachs. These are vital missions, yet we can’t neglect the burden God has put on our hearts for the less-glamorous mission of the printed word.

We’re excited about written words at Lighthouse Publishing. Here’s why:

Written words let the reader live a thousand lives. Someone who reads books can learn a lot about other places, cultures, and people. Written words take us back in time and broaden our horizons far beyond what personal friendships can.

Written words never give up. A book or tract doesn’t need courage or perseverance to keep sharing it’s message. You can get angry at the message or throw it away, but written words relentlessly make their point.

Written words never change their mind. You can argue or disagree with what you read, but you can never change the “mind” of written words with debates. Through the Spirit of God working in the reader’s heart, this silent messenger can “win the argument” and bring the person to Christ or a better understanding of truth.

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Loaves & Fishes Ready to Print

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Rejoice with us! Another issue (L&F 10/02) is almost finalized and ready to send to the print shop. It was one of those that didn’t come easy, but we are very grateful for God’s direction and help each step of the way.

The printing cost will be somewhere around $16,000. By the time you read this, it should be out of review stage and finalized. The only thing holding us back will be the funds to get it printed.

We are praying that it will be possible to mail this issue yet this fall. Funds have been a little lower than we expected, but that can change overnight as we pray and work together with God’s help.

If you’d like to help make this new issue possible, click here.

For the Kingdom,

Lavern Gingerich

Release Date: 01/25/2088

Inspiration

Until you experience it for yourself, it is impossible to know the anguish of heart that thousands feel right now. They’re locked up, separated from their family, helpless to undo the mess they’ve made, and full of remorse for what they’ve done. If the dreams and joys of normal life are snatched away, never to return until 2088 or beyond, it feels like forever.

Some are locked up for a short time and others for several lifetimes. It is staggering how many men and women have sentences stacked up against them that they can never hope to outlive.

A few have found the answer to true freedom in Jesus Christ. Multitudes more are sincerely seeking truth, sorting through the confusion of various religions. Some find the true path in Jesus Christ; others try to make sense of several different religions.

Thousands of prisoners have reached out to us in search of truth. In fact, they are still coming. The photo above represents just several days’ worth of mail from prisoners.

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