Mission newsletter… Saturation point?
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
I sent out my “mission” newsletter on Thursday. It’s an email that goes only to people who’ve requested it, which tells about stuff here with the church and how we are trying to reach out to the community.
115 people are on the email list. I ended up getting 8 responses right away, all of them bounce-backs from comcast.net. (Enmity with the Swiss server “bluewin.ch”, I guess.) Since then, I’ve received 5 personal responses.
One thing we foreign church workers can do is learn to communicate better with our sponsors, supporters and those far away who pray for us back. It’s one of the reasons for this blog: To keep in contact with people as they pray for the Lausanne work and our family.
But people are flooded with emails. (10 Africans have asked if they could give me 15% of a gazillion dollars, and that’s just this week!) I receive mission reports from Cambodia, Lyons, Mauritius Island, Marseilles, Geneva and Strasbourg. I read them all, and respond to them all (except for Geneva). I know, I don’t have a life.
Any suggestions? Should I not worry about it and keep on sending the email newsletter? Is there a way to make it more interactive?
I will respond to your comments…
115 people are on the email list. I ended up getting 8 responses right away, all of them bounce-backs from comcast.net. (Enmity with the Swiss server “bluewin.ch”, I guess.) Since then, I’ve received 5 personal responses.
One thing we foreign church workers can do is learn to communicate better with our sponsors, supporters and those far away who pray for us back. It’s one of the reasons for this blog: To keep in contact with people as they pray for the Lausanne work and our family.
But people are flooded with emails. (10 Africans have asked if they could give me 15% of a gazillion dollars, and that’s just this week!) I receive mission reports from Cambodia, Lyons, Mauritius Island, Marseilles, Geneva and Strasbourg. I read them all, and respond to them all (except for Geneva). I know, I don’t have a life.
Any suggestions? Should I not worry about it and keep on sending the email newsletter? Is there a way to make it more interactive?
I will respond to your comments…