The Kerusso – September | 2019 Kerusso (Greek): “To publish, proclaim openly: something which has been done.”
We have Issuus What do you mean by that? Good question - thanks for asking! First let me tell you what it isn’t: 1. It isn’t the Greek or Hebrew spelling of Jesus. 2. And it isn’t a typo. It’s about “The Connection” magazine. We’re making changes that are both important and exciting and we want you to know about them. I wonder, what is your ‘connection’ to “The Connection?” Maybe you are someone who reads every issue from cover to cover. Maybe you have picked through the magazine from time to time. Or, maybe you’re among those who have seen a stack of them on the back table in the church foyer, or in the rack by the bulletin board but haven’t ever read a single article. If you are that avid reader, THANK YOU! This announcement will be especially important to you. But if you are not, we’d like to invite you to take a look at “The Connection,” and now you can do so from your smart phone, tablet, or computer. We have recently begun using an online publishing company called “ISSUU” to make the magazine available to a wider audience - much wider than the print version could ever hope for. ISSUU has electronically published over 45 million documents, and boasts over 100 million unique online ‘visitors’ per month. Every day, over 20,000 new documents or publications are digitally uploaded to ISSUU.com. By digitally publishing with ISSUU, “The Connection” it is at your electronic fingertips. You can read the current issue (or past issues) by simply going to emchurch.org on your device and in the menu line, click on the words, “The Connection.” This will take you to a new page with the most recent issue right there for you to read immediately, or by clicking on the link below the current issue, you will be taken to the EMC’s archive of past issues of the magazine, and even past issues of the Kerusso newsletter. Click on the word “Stacks” and then you can choose which publication you’d like to read. The winter issue of “The Connection” will be the last print edition, and current readers of the printed magazine will receive this same information. It will be distributed in December of 2019. In addition to the possibilities of increased readership, especially among younger people who are less and less likely to get their information from a printed source, the change to digital publishing will save the EMC tens of thousands of dollars every year. Some folks will miss the printed “Connection,” but it is our conviction that this decision reflects both good stewardship, and a sincere desire to reach more and more people with the vital message of Scriptural holiness.