The following comes from a book written by a Navigator staff called Funding Your Ministry. I liked this newsletter example derived from the chapter entitled “How to Write Newsletters People Actually Read.” It also made me a little hungry…

“September 16 at 4 p.m. I accompanied our Wisconsin staff member to campus to visit a friend of his. We met him at the door to his dorm room; he was carrying two cans of Old Milwaukee and a package of bratwurst-Schweigert, I think.

He welcomed us warmly, and we started talking as he poured the 2 beers into an electric frying pan. One of the beers exploded onto his books and clothes. ‘Someone must have shook this one up,’ he said. Then he dumped the Schweigert bratwursts into the beer (on simmer) and kept turning them while we talked.

His roommate soon arrived carrying a can of Del Monte cream-style corn. He scraped it into an electric coffeepot already plugged into the wall. Naturally, the pot was too hot, and soon he was futilely trying to stir the burning corn at the bottom of the pot.

“Nice balanced meal,’ I said. ‘Beats dorm food,’ they replied.

Will you join me in praying for Wisconsin students?”