Ian and Julie Fallis Your connection with tribal missions 
This photo goes with one of the stories I've been editing. You'll have to get the magazine to find out what they're doing.
Seems like my office should be knee-deep in words.
You see, I’ve been editing articles for the August issue of the New Tribes Mission magazine, NTM@work. (It’s free, by the way, and donors get it automatically. No, that’s not a hint. If I said, here’s a link to give, that would be a hint. But I’m not going to do that. Nope. Instead, here’s a link to sign up.)
Editing has been crucial for the last several issues. Most of the articles have been written by missionaries outside our department, folks out there in the tribes and in foreign lands. That’s a great thing; they’ve got great stories to tell. They just need help telling them.
And that’s part of my job. I’m responsible for the words in everything our department puts out, which is the vast majority of what NTM “says.” So over the last few days, I’ve whittled seven stories down from a collective 11,363 words to 6,508 words. As I said, seems like my office should be knee-deep in words. Four thousand, eight hundred and fifty-five of them, to be precise.
I didn’t cut the stories because shorter stories are easier to read. Have you ever started to read a short article that was so bad you gave up? I have. And if you’ve read (more…)
