A Voice Needs a Venue

Whenever I meet new people, I end up telling people that I have two occupational passions (what jobs I love and have loved doing):

• Ministry (specifically international missions)
• Marketing

Then I get one of several reactions:

• "Wow, I didn't know those two could peacefully co-exist. Isn't like oil and water?"
• "OK, never heard of that combination before. Tell me more about that!"
• "Why did you leave the ministry to go into marketing?"
• "Why did you leave marketing to go into ministry?"

As I launch this blog, this is my ministry and missions alter-ego. I write consistently on a two other blogs:

1. MarketingTwins.com - small business marketing
2. 1429creative - ministry marketing and church communication
   

Whenever my family lived in West Africa, we discovered the power of blogging in 2004 and found it to be an incredible communication tool to connect with people back home who were interested in following our missionary work to the Aja people of Benin, West Africa. The blog was started in 2004 and actually covered a year or two after our return to the States in 2007 - it is no longer updated, but chronicles some rich family history, not to mention the incredible story of when we we adopted our 4th child from Benin. We had no idea when she was born that she would eventually end up in our home, so the story of her birth is a great story for us to have written down).

This blog is for that part of me that still loves ministry, the Word of God, and missions. I rarely write about it since most of my time in the past few years has been spent on starting my business. But I am a writer and need to share these thoughts. I do not lead a congregation, pastor a church or lead a ministry, but I do participate in Bible studies and international missions is an important part of who I am - so this blog becomes a venue for that voice inside of me wanting to talk on these matters.

-Randy