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International Ministries Seeks Bailout from Federal Government

The Rocky Mountain Region posted this in their newsletter. I'm skeptical -- is this a joke? It is dated March 31st. Does that mean it was meant to come out April 1st as an April Fool's joke???

Say it ain't so!
chip.

It had me going for a while too, chip. From the middle of the article (buried on it's second page; emphasis mine):

Okay, enough silliness.

Some of the above is true, much of it
is not. International Ministries is not
seeking a “bailout” from the Federal
Government. International Ministries,
however, is struggling to keep missionaries
in the field and is looking
for revenue sufficient to maintain current
levels of missionaries on the
field.

It seems like a wrong headed idea of attracting attention to the article. Too bad you have to read the whole thing very carefully in order to catch the "joke." I don't know if it was meant as an April Fool's joke, but it certainly seems to be functioning like one.

It seems like a wrong headed idea of attracting attention to the article. Too bad you have to read the whole thing very carefully in order to catch the "joke."

Well, that shows you a few things:
Keep newsletters short.
If you are going to be controversially provocative with religion and politics, don't wait to the end of the article to say "gotchya!".
If you don't want to lose slow-witted ADHD guys who need thicker lenses in their glasses (we are an important demographic) be more clear and use a 18 point font
Seriously Jon, after my 19th barf, I stopped reading.

Call me "sucker".

Just read the article again. I wear my April Fool dunce cap with both pride and shame.

Please chip, feel no shame. I only caught it myself after spending almost half an hour pouring over the news links at the IM website and checking other pages at the ABCRM site. Only then did it occur to me to read past the first page of the article. I'm with you on the ADD and thick lenses points too. See, we are an important demographic.

Thanks JK!
Mary isn't the only one "full of grace".
Keep the faith,
chip.