There’s something big going on at the ministry that I work with. Earlier this year, Herald of Truth Ministries announced that we will begin using the name Hope For Life in our public outreach. Herald of Truth is a name with a lot of tradition, especially among churches of Christ. The ministry began in 1952 as an evangelistic ministry and continues to carry out evangelistic projects around the world.
However, it’s become clear that the name Herald of Truth does not communicate what we’d like, at least to people outside the church. We have operated the Hope For Life website for years and have come to see that “Hope For Life” expresses very well what we want people to know about us. We are offering hope; not a hope that begins with us, but the hope that only God can give.
The transition will be a gradual one. But as you hear me and others talk about Hope For Life, please know that we are talking about a ministry with a long trajectory of doing good around the world.
I see you are in a struggle to keep the readership of your blog in tact, believe it or not maintaining a blog can turn into work, especially one that is represented as a church blog. believe me I know. My blog never represented a specific church but it was supposed to be a blog about the bible and it’s contents. after about six years I thought I had said about all I could, so I began to loose interest, therefore readers lost interest. After blogging for so long your blog is part of your family, but we even have to pull the plug on grandpa after a year in a coma. I see the same signs in your blog, and that of Jay Guin, the death rattle is evident, unless there are changes. May I make a suggestion, use modern day life stories, or even parables to teach the word of God , I thought about doing that, but I just didn’t have any years left in my blog life. I teach the word of God with my mouth, and comments on other’s pages when the opportunity comes up. but it would take a miracle to get me blogging again.
Just a suggestion you might think about.
Thanks, Laymond. I’ll certainly do my best to avoid the mistakes you make.