Humility and Power

Archive for August, 2009

Things are moving along very fast as we get toward the end of the month here.

If you have not yet joined us in our home business, now would be the best time. For details on that, please head to http://marksproductsurvey.com

We are getting very excited about the Kingdom Rain Conference coming up September 18, 19 and 20. Final details coming on that very soon.

More later!

M-

We’ve done two 24 hour fundraisers in the last week now and while we had a great time doing them and a lot of fun on our end, we did fall $1107 short of meeting the goals here financially.

The upside is that we are caught up with the bills for the ministry thru August now. The downside is that we still have nothing toward the Kingdom Rain conference coming up in just under a month.

Join me in prayer over this issue and if led to give, do so by heading to http://healingstreammedia.com/donate

We’re looking very forward to CJ and Lanita Gaul joiningus tonight live on The Healing Wind for Winds of Worship!  God always does special stuff in those times.

M-

For many years we have had a message board community up and running.  Long before there was a Network of stations here, in fact, long before a single station was here at all, we had Grace Boards (GB).  GBs is a wonderful thing but it can get lost pretty easily in the shadow of the other aspects of our ministry here.

I would like to invite you to join GBs. It’s free to join, you just need a valid email address. The board software will then send you an automatid email with a confirmation code for you to verify that email address.  Once you do that we try very hard to approve you for access to GBs within 12 to 24 hours and sometimes much sooner.

We have these verifications in place because GBs is a place dedicated to healing.  People really open up and bear the details of their hearts and lives so out of respect for those hearts we try to go an extra step or two to verify you are a real person and are not there to just spam, etc…

Once you are approved, you will find almost 200 like minded believers with almost 30,000 posts in over 30 different individual boards making up the collective Grace Board Community.

GBs is completely staffed with Administrators, Global Moderators and regular Moderators from all over the United States and even some from Europe to help guide you and help things go smoothly.

Bookmark and join GBs here:  http://graceboards.com

Mark

I want to remind everyone that all three of our stations are now back up and running thru iTunes. I know many of you enjoy iTunes for all three of our stations and now you can do that again!

I want to address the financial issues as a couple people have asked me about it now and seemed a bit confused.  Yes the ministry is part of a new home business that is helping it pay for itself but that home business is not a “get rich quick” thing. We are making hundreds a month now however, it takes over $1000 a month just to maintain the very fundamental basics here.

Also, names do not matter but of our suscribed monthly partners, 4 of them in august ether had their payments decline or cancelled their support with us entirely.  While people certainly are free to support or not support as they feel the Lord directing them, it does place an incredible financial strainon things.

In the backdrop of that we had a couple people send in one time financial gifts that enabled us to maintain for aother few days here but it is really down to a day by day deal on this end as to if we will be able to keep everything up and going like it is.

If you have not joined us in our new home biz, I have a web site with more details including a free survey you can take to see if you qualify to join with us in that. http://marksproductsurvey.com.

Otherwise, all we can do is ask people to pray about what God would have them do in this time and t yield to any instruction the Lord gives them.

M-

In January of this year we launched our third station, The Healing Wind, and over the last 30 days it has set new records solidifying itself as the undisputed second most popular station we have just behind our flagship station, The Healing Stream.

Last month we had what we felt was a very good turn out for the Weekend of Fire conference here locally in Central, Ohio and we now look very forward to September 18, 19 & 20 for the upcoming Kingdom Rain conference.  It has been an incredible 2009 here at the ministry with one notable exception, that being our giving.

One option we could look into is starting to sell advertising on our radio stations. While this sounds good on the surface, remember that the average radio spot is 60 seconds long and the normal “flow” of music that you have come to expect from our stations would be interrupted up to three times an hour if we went this route.

Another option we have is to make our stations available only by paid subscription.  While this would help financially in the short term, the obvious draw back is the compromise of our mission to help facilitate the presence of God freely to the entire earth.

I’m also asking Him to touch 4 of you to sow a very special one time gift of $100 USD.