“Actually, We Use Your Stuff All the Time”

In this donor update, we want to share some of the encouraging conversations we have recently had with churches. And we'd like to introduce you to the person helping make more of those conversations possible.

A few months ago, we brought Will Fannin on as our Director of Church Partnerships and Marketing. Thanks in large part to the generosity of many of you, Will has now raised his full support and is able to devote all his time to this new role.

His work is centered on a simple goal: connecting Into the Light with churches.

That means Will spends much of his week talking with pastors. He introduces them to our ministry, listens to the needs they are seeing in their congregations, and helps them think through how our resources might serve their people.

Over the past month, two of those conversations have been especially encouraging.

“We Use Your Stuff All the Time”

The church was already using all three of our main resources—the Into the Light documentary, Tech-Safe, and Parenting and Pornography. The pastor described them as a cornerstone of the church’s discipleship on pornography. . . And we had no idea.

That conversation gave us a glimpse of something your support has helped make possible. Our resources are serving churches we do not always hear about. This organic growth is very encouraging to us. 

Helping Churches Act Earlier

Will also spoke with a pastor in Oklahoma City who wants his church to take a proactive approach to pornography.

He does not want only the pastors and trained counselors to know how to help. He wants his whole church to know how help one another in this area. He especially wants parents to be prepared before pornography has already taken root in the home.

Too often, he explained, the pastors do not hear from parents until after something has already cropped up. He wants to help families sooner.

When Will told him about Parenting and Pornography, he was thrilled. He planned to go through it with his family and the other pastors on staff, then consider how they could incorporate it into the life of the church.

That is exactly the kind of connection we hoped Will’s role would create: a pastor names a real discipleship need, and we can place a biblical resource in his hands.

We are grateful to have Will on the team. His work is helping us move beyond creating resources to building relationships with the churches that use them. It is another sign of God’s kindness in growing our team and allowing us to invest more time and ministry funds in helping churches put these resources into practice.

Please Pray with Us

1. Please pray for Will as he continues reaching out to churches. Pray that he would have more encouraging conversations with pastors, learn how churches are already using our work, and introduce our resources to congregations that have not yet found them.

2. Please also pray for Jacob and his wife as they prepare to welcome their daughter very soon.

3. Finally, pray for Josh Lovett as he raises support to join our team as the Director of Operations. Josh will help us build stronger ministry systems, including the Integrity Plan. Through partnerships with seminaries and sending agencies, we hope this initiative will help train pastors and missionaries who are prepared to walk in integrity and serve others faithfully.

We regularly pray for you, our donors, and we would be glad to pray more specifically. If there is something happening in your life that we can bring before the Lord, please send us your prayer request.

Thank you for your generosity toward us. Your support is helping these resources reach churches. And sometimes, we get the joy of discovering that they arrived long before we did.