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We won something!
Posted on Wednesday 25 April 2007 by Greg @ 7:37 am
Filed under: Rants
Outreach Magazine just announced their Outreach Rescources of the Year for 2006 and, guess what? Our book Dare 2 Share…A Field Guide to Sharing Your Faith won for the best resource in the youth category!
I say "our book" because, although technically I’m the author, it was really a joint project between myself, Lane Palmer, Jane Dratz and, of course, our awesome editor Marianne Herring with Focus on the Family. So let me take a few moments to brag on my co-collaboraters in researching, writing and editing this little red book.
My good buddy Lane Palmer (youth ministry specialist here at Dare 2 Share and mastermind behind all things Soul Fuel) did an amazing job doing research for the "How to witness to…" section of the book and, beside my personal stories, pretty much wrote that entire section. Way to go bro!
Jane Dratz is a phenom! She helps the non politically correct Greg Stier think, well, with a little more balance and perspective. She helped me to re-think and re-write too many parts of this book to recount. Suffice it to say, this book would not be as nearly as compelling without her excellent input.
Marianne rocks. She worked hard on this project. I love the way she pushed back with us on some things and pushed back with Focus on other things to make the Dare 2 Share book all it could be. Marianne was and is a champion for the little red book that could!
But more than anything else I want to thank all of you who are reading and using it to share Jesus with your friends. I think that the editors of Outreach Magazine put it best when they wrote, "…the most precious aspect of this resource is surely its ability to incite in students an excitement and fervor for the Gospel and thus a natural desire to share Christ’s message."
My prayer is that every reader of this book (young or old) is more excited and that much more equipped to share their faith as a result of going through it. Winning an award is cool, but winning souls is even better.
Keep sharing!
Greg, I thought I’d let you know I was DYING to do my report about "Famous Christian people and how they change the world" on you. In fact, my teacher signed it and everything. Why can’t I? Because stupid ole’ wikipedia doesn’t have your name in there! RAWR! ::sues wikipedia:: =[ Anyhow, I hope you understand you have changed me and my youth group. And because of that change, we are watching the Gospel Journey (tonight, actually!) and will be starting an E-Team right after the cirriculium is over (I never knew I didn’t know why I trust God and believe it - I would never know how to defend my faith! SCARY. Daughter of the secretary of the church is supposed to know these things!). Anyways, I really hope you do know that teens admire you in so many ways. You have no idea how frustrated I am that I can’t do that report on you. With what I’d have on it, everyone would be going to the next D2S event (which by the way, I can’t wait for!). 