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Announcing … the Footprints Blog Tour!

  • June
  • 25

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The celebrations for our 50th issue continue – this time, with a blog tour! So what is a blog tour? I hear you ask! Well, it’s a bit like when an author goes on a book tour to promote their book – stopping at different towns to participate in interviews. A blog tour is the online version [...]

Promoting your Writing

  • June
  • 14

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  I found the following article buried in my computer archives, and thought it really captured my early enthusiasm for all things Footprints, as well as what the world was like back then (we didn’t even have a website!). As far as I can calculate, I wrote it in about 2000 when Footprints was only a [...]

50 Fascinating Facts about Footprints!

  • June
  • 10

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  To mark our 50th edition of Footprints, I’ve put together a collection of fifty fascinating facts about Footprints.  Footprints is not the first magazine our editor Janet has headed up! She ran a penpalling magazine with her best friend for about eight or nine months when she was 13.  The magazine was called “Cheeky” after [...]

According to our Readers …

  • June
  • 3

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I’m sure this comes as no surprise, but I believe passionately in the ministry of the written word, and what God can do with it …  But don’t take my word for it! I’ve compiled just some of my favourite letters, testimonies and readers’ comments received over the past twelve and a half years. An [...]

Our 50th Meeting!

  • May
  • 27

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So here it is … our fabulous 50th issue! It occurred to me on Saturday that not only was this our 50th issue, it was also the 50th Footprints meeting. That’s a lot of meetings! Right from the beginning, Footprints meetings have been a lot of fun. What else can you expect when you get [...]

The Next Step

  • March
  • 28

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This week has been fairly momentous in the world of Footprints.  Allow me to introduce … Footprints Women’s Ministries Inc!  Don’t be too alarmed, it’s just a new name for an old friend. Let me explain: Since January 1998, I have been producing Footprints magazine as a labour of love (with the support of my [...]

Inspiration for Editors

  • October
  • 11

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Prior to attending the “Editing the Magazine” conference in Manila, I was a bit nervous that I was attending under false pretences. Much as I love Footprints, it is small fry really – it’s not even my day job, it’s something I do in my spare time as a labour of love, and I don’t [...]

Failure and Disappointment

  • September
  • 4

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After my last few posts sharing the inspirational Footprints story, a reader commented that there must have been disappointments along the way. So to give you a realistic picture of the Footprints journey, I thought I’d share just some of the challenges and failures … Discouragement from within the body of Christ – When Footprints was [...]

Confessions of a Magazine Junkie (Pt 4)

  • August
  • 30

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  And so began the Footprints journey … and what a journey it’s been. Twelve years ago, I knew very little about running a ministry, let alone putting a magazine together, writing articles, databases, advertising and promotion, webpages – I didn’t even have internet access! It feels like my Father God himself has taken me [...]

Confessions of a Magazine Junkie (Pt 3)

  • August
  • 19

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And so it was on a ladies camp in September 1997 that the idea for Footprints was first conceived. At the time I had a 10 month old baby and a 3 year old. I thought there was no way I could pursue this dream at least until my children were at school – maybe [...]

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