The green banner across the page reminds us: only 30 days left to register for the Festival of Young Preachers.
Elsewhere on this site you can see
The names of the 38 young preachers who have already registered (minus the one who has had to withdraw because she will be nine months pregnant in January!). Which leaves 63 slots available for the Festival.
I can name at least 50 young preachers who have told us they are working on a registration for the Festival. Which means we are going to have a last minute rush on registrations. That is just fine, but it means that the longer a person waits the more the chance that he or she will wait too long, that he or she will not get an automatic spot but will end up only on the wait list.
While these registrations have been coming in slow the network of FANS on our Facebook page continues to grow: click on the icon to the right (iPreach) and then click on the box of Fans: 640 Fans as of today, September 1. Our Fan club has been growing at the rate of 100 Fans per week, far more than the hoped-for 100 per month! Earlier, I had anticipated reaching 1000 Fans by the end of the year, but it looks now like we will reach that lofty number much sooner.
I encourage you, each one of you, to scroll through your list of Facebook friends and invite selected ones to be Fans of the Academy of Preachers. Some of you have more than 1000 friends on Facebook. You can help us reach our goal!
If you have not watched the Facebook/YouTube video, please take 7 minutes sometime today and watch it. It will stun you with its statistics about the social network revolution. We at the Academy of Preachers are trying to harness this new technology for the good of the gospel and for the glory of God.
Thanks for your support and keep in touch.