{"id":3139,"date":"2012-10-03T08:15:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T14:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2012-10-03T08:16:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T14:16:13","slug":"behind-the-scenes-at-missions-catalyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3139","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes at Missions Catalyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers,<\/p>\n<p>Do you find Missions Catalyst inspiring, informative, or useful for your ministry? We sure hope so! If you do, maybe you can give us a hand.<\/p>\n<p>Our publication is created and distributed by a small team of volunteers using affordable tools. This keeps production costs very low. We&#8217;ve been able to stay afloat since the mid-1990s, despite the economic and organizational storms.<\/p>\n<p>We do, however, need to cover our direct expenses (primarily web hosting, mailing service, and promotion). Those costs add up to about US$1000 a year.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than selling ads, recruiting sponsors, or charging fees, we&#8217;re trusting God to supply the funds through (tax-deductible) donations from readers.<\/p>\n<p>If you find yourself able to give, please consider <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?page_id=593\" shape=\"rect\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">a donation to the Missions Catalyst account with Pioneers<\/span><\/a><\/span>. We have a few bills due at the end of this month, so a gift right now would be particularly helpful. Questions? We&#8217;d be glad to <a href=\"mailto:marti@missionscatalyst.org\" shape=\"rect\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">hear from you<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Much thanks!<\/p>\n<p>blessings,<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/origin.ih.constantcontact.com\/fs083\/1101651775513\/img\/6.jpg\" alt=\"(signature)\" name=\"ACCOUNT.IMAGE.6\" width=\"148\" height=\"94\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><br \/>\nMarti Wade | publisher and managing editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers, Do you find Missions Catalyst inspiring, informative, or useful for your ministry? We sure hope so! If you do, maybe you can give us a hand. Our publication is created and distributed by a small team of volunteers using affordable tools. This keeps production costs very low. We&#8217;ve been able to stay afloat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3139\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Behind the scenes at Missions Catalyst<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3141,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions\/3141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}