While functioning without a managing editor this summer, I learned just how important the job is, so was delighted with the addition of Jonathan Kever to that role this fall. Jonathan is a bright young minister who has just completed his degree in Christian Studies at Union University. (He graduated as the top biblical studies student in a program that enrolls more than 300 church-related studies majors.) He will serve with Preaching about 25 hours a week while continuing his theological training. You will enjoy his work in the coming months.
Another key member of the Preaching team is Lanette Ross, our office manager and circulation director. She serves our readers in a variety of ways, from answering subscriber calls (and e-mails) to entering new orders and renewals in the computer, to keeping track of our books. Lanette loves the Lord and has a great ministry to ministers through her work at Preaching. Pray for her in the next few weeks as we go through a complete conversion of our computer software for managing subscriber information. (Yes, the old system was not Y2K compliant!)
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Wayne Jenks is our Webmaster, a job he performs from Louisville, KY, where he is a student at Southern Baptist Seminary. Wayne began working for us some four years ago when we were based in Louisville, and has continued doing a fine job of managing our web site (and Preaching On-Line) from long distance. (Of course, geographic distances don't make much difference in cyberspace!)
Jeannette May and Florence Torsell help make the magazine possible through their work as our national advertising representatives. The advertisers who appear in Preaching make this publication possible, and Jeannette and Florence (based in suburban Chicago) help make those ads possible. So if you have the opportunity, tell an advertiser you saw their ad in Preaching -- then buy something!
My work as editor would be impossible without the talent and dedication represented by the people I've mentioned. Add to that list the incredible team of Contributing Editors and writers who help make Preaching the quality resource that it is. Without them, there would be no magazine. (Well, there might be one but it would be a whole lot shorter!)
Finally, let me thank you for reading and supporting this ministry venture. Our goal for 15 years has been to strengthen and encourage those who proclaim God's Word. Whether through Preaching magazine, the National Conference on Preaching, or now the web site and on-line publication (Preaching On-Line), that mission guides and drives everything we do. If you benefit from our work, then it has been worthwhile.