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PHILLY PRAISE WEEKLY
..........................(Proving that GOODNEWS is still news!)..........................
Welcome to the temporary webpage of (Philly Praise Weekly) We greet you in the name of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ! We introduce to you a refreshing change in newspaper publication. We hope that the information on this page encourages you to support our vision. We pray that our publication will be a tool for change in our community. We also request that you pray for us that we always allow God to be in control of all that we present to you, His people!
(From the Publisher)
As founder and Publisher of (Philly Praise Weekly), it is my goal to give Christians of all races, ethnic, economical, and denominational backgrounds the option of reading a publication filled with goodnews, human interest stories.
As we have seen with 2004 Presidential election coverage by television and print, we need a change in the way news is presented to the public. We WILL inform, inspire, and entertain, NEVER preaching at people or causing negative contraversy within the body of Christ.
We are truly living in times of great pain! I along with my staff intend to use script and images to edify the universal church body. Our vision is to use this platform to aid in the sharing of ideas between Christians and churches, in Philadelphia and the surrounding area, that might not otherwise come into contact with one other.
I, like my Pastor, Brian Jenkins of (Chosen 300 Ministries), believe that if we unite the body of Christ we will reach the world. I spoke of pain. It's the pain that we all know too well! Our little children are dying, we're losing our young men and women to drugs, violence, the streets,and diseases such as aids, unwed mothers and the rising devorse rate have destoyed the family unit in this country, and finally we have all but forgotten our elderly. Something is wrong and the world can't fix it! Don't you think that they would have by now if they could?
The answer IS Jesus!!! People hear about Him everday thanks to the perfecting of the sermon by our preachers and the help of modern technology. It is time for the world to SEE Jesus. He is not dead!!! This is your newspaper. Join with us to use it to congradulate one another's successes, encourage our children, and support the endeavours of other churches in the body. United we can change our community. It's time for us to take what we learn in church on Sunday out into the hedges and highways. Did not Jesus spend more time among the common man than the temple elite? Come, let's be more like Jesus and watch what happens. There is a great big world out there and many are waiting for us to introduce them to the one that can save them!!!
Sincerely, David A. Thomas
pseudonym - Sean B. Vernon
(From the Director of Visual/Art department)
It is the goal of my staff and myself to capture pristine and profound images, using them in modern and creative ways to promote social awareness and spiritual renewal. We want to inspire positive change within the core readership of this contemporary faith-based publication, (PHILLY PRAISE WEEKLY).
With visual display, we will celebrate in endless color and vivid clarity the trials and triumphs of lives committed to Jesus, faith, and praise.
It is the primary assignment of this department to document the birth of a dream, it's visionary publisher, God's people, and the publication the dreamer unselfishly turned into their voice!!!
Hopefully along with the publisher we will move atheistic and pessimistic mountains with our tools of pens and lenses, giving the public a new multi-cultural vision via this optical opera we call (PHILLY PRAISE WEEKLY)!
Sincerely, Mingo Sola
(From the Director of the Fiction/Fun department)
It is the goal of this department to infuse fun into this publication. It is not my belief that we, as Christians, have to be serious all the time. I beleive that a sence of humor, is a gift given from God.
To start, this department will introduce you, the reader, to the (Christains) a racially integrated, somewhat disfunctional, and always funny cartoon family. They will sometimes just humor us and other times deal with real life issues that families deal with everyday. We hope that they will help Christian families to find new and creative ways to deal with the issues that sometimes arise in our homes.
Unlike most newspaper cartoons there will not be a new story line each week. This toon will be set up like a television sitcom with an ongoing story-line that follows in real time with our lives. You may even, at times, see current events in the story-line.
This department will offer crossword puzzles, riddles, trivia and word searchers for the reader's entertainment. Poetry and short stories will also be featured. Through words and drawings we hope to entertain, encourage, and educate at the same time.
Sincerely, James Lemar
The following are weekly feature titles and a description of their intended content. This is your paper, so we will always invite sugjestions on stories to fill each feature. However there are a few stories that will solely depend on your input. These feature titles will be marked with a (*);
Abundant Life: This will pertain to all things that you as a consumer need to know about the latest products.
Catch a Glimpse: This is a page that has been put aside for the visual/art department to display images of the week.
Celebration and Praise: This is a page dedicated to music, dance, theater,and all the audio/visual arts.
Chaplin Chat: We often forget the importance of the Chaplin to our colleges,
hospitals, and armed forces. So this page is dedicated to their stories.
Hey Youth, What U Think?: We want to encourage and showcase our youth at their best. So this page is for youth essays 100 words or less on predetermined subjects. From time to time we may do contests.
(*)I Need 2 Know: This is our version of Dear Abby or shall we call it ask the Pastor. Each week we will feature your questions of scripture and personal delimas and their answers from the previous week's spotlighted Pastor.
It's a Great big World: Many of our churches are now doing foriegn ministry and we would like you to know about them.
(*)It's a Miracle: This is your testamony page. But we ask that they be kept to 100 words or less. However there may be times when we will dedicate the whole page to one story.
Just a Thought: This is simply the page that I as publisher will use to vent the things on my mind for that week. I will also dedicate the unused portion of this page, if any, to be used by nonprofit organizations to advertise, free of charge. (This does not include churches). This will be done as a public service.
Municiple Info: We have reserved this page for the city to share information about it's departments and their functions. It is also to be used to keep you informed about upcoming city sponsored events. I believe that there are people that work for the city that have been doing great things for the community and this space is also to be used to highlight their stories.
Oh, how we love Jesus: Each week this article will visit a church and talk about it's congregation. It will showcase the people there and some of the things that this church has to offer indivisuals and the community as a whole.
Philly Phacts: This page will tell you the reader interesting facts about Philadelphia and it's citizens. We will explore it's history, present, and future.
Phun-Phun Phest: This is the page dedicated to the cartoons, and puzzles. Possibly we will invite the reader to send in riddles and jokes of a Christian flavor.
(*)Poet's Place: Just as the title sugjest this is the place to find poetry. Whether professional or ameture, it will be there. From time to time we may do contests.
Shaping the Mind: This information page is to keep the reader updated on what the schools in our city are up to. We will cover all schools public, private, special-needs, trade, tech, and colleges. We will also tell what the adult education schools have to offer the Christain student. We will attempt to help with tutoring, GED, and SAT info.
Takin' Care of the Temple: This is our health and fitness page. We will write about all areas of health. We will do features on everything from breastcancer to toenail fungus, from weightlifting to meditation. We will investgate the research on new drugs and revisit research on the old ones.
(*)Takin' It 2 the Streets: This is the place to find out who's doing what in the streets of Philly. Who is ministering to the people of our city that don't always get the chance to go to church. The homeless, the sick and shut in, the elderly, the mentally ill, the prisoners, the latchkey children, the juvenile detainees, and the unsaved.
(*)Thank God 4 the Pastor: This is the page for you to tell us about your Pastor. We will also interview the featured Pastor of the that week to go along with your letter about Him or Her.
(*)The Pulse of the People: This is your page to talk back to the staff of (Philly Praise Weekly) and to each other. Give us your opinion on whatever you want. We WILL NOT use this page however to debate denomination or belief. Also, it WILL NEVER be used to put down others in the body of Christ.
(*)Youth Booth: This is the page to find out what's going on with the youth of the church. What are they singing, reading, praying about, eating, and wearing. Who are their youth leaders and what are these youth ministries doing. We want to touch issues of importance to youth such as dating, sex, drugs, pier-pressure, puberty, college, and employment. We want hear what they think their place in tomorrows church should be. From time to time we would like to hold youth town meetings.
Of course there will be times where there will be need for stories that may not fit into one of these set feature titles and we will do our best to make sure that we print them for you. Also we will do stories pertaining to different seasons such as Eastor and Christmas.
Info. on Chosen 300 Ministries
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