ENGAGE Magazine 
When most people think of the word “magazine,” they imagine flipping printed pages. But “magazine” can refer to a type of content.
 
Engage is a Web site format containing magazine-style content—stories about people, articles delving into our church’s mission strategies, mission book reviews submitted by readers, how-to articles, photo packages, and personal reflection essays. Its target audience is every Nazarene, especially lay people.
 
NMI presidents will find the magazine useful as a portal to easily find stories to promote mission in their churches. They’ll also find links to mission Web sites, missionary blogs, regional and field newsletters and Web sites, and Nazarene mission stories in other places on the Internet.
 
Engage magazine offers two ways that NMI presidents and councils can use it to help engage their churches in mission involvement and passion:
 
First, share the stories with your church family by:

• playing the audio recorded interviews during small groups or mission services;
• creating a mission news e-mail chain and forward mission stories to people who sign up;
• printing off Engage stories to pass out at church; 
• putting a note in the bulletin inviting church members to sign up for the Engage
  e-newsletter;
• using Engage information in your mission presentations.

Second, tell the stories of your church’s involvement in missions through Engage.

• Register to write a story of how God is drawing your church into Christ’s mission to the world.
• Create a photo essay depicting an outreach, mission trip, fundraiser or prayer ministry in action.
• Review an interesting mission book or video.
• Encourage your church family to contribute their mission stories and essays, too.

 
To sign up for the newsletter, visit www.engagemagazine.com and click on the link in the Newsletter Signup box. To register to be a writer, click on “Log In” at the top of the page, then fill out the form. Once you validate your registration by clicking on a link that is sent to your e-mail, you will be able to sign in and begin writing!
 
For more information, contact Managing Editor Gina Pottenger at 913-577-2975 or gpottenger@nazarene.org.