Letter from the Publisher

Greetings! My name is Jerry Harris and I serve as the publisher of Christian Standard, a Restoration Movement magazine that has been continuously published for nearly 160 years. I would like to ask if your church would consider being a mission partner with Christian Standard. Here’s why: Like many of you, I took for granted the influence that the Restoration Movement, Christian Standard, and Standard Publishing had on my life. I was a Jet Cadet, an Alphateen, a Bible Bowl team member, a Junior Church preacher, a youth choir singer, and a youth group leader. Moreover, I went to Ozark Bible College, was ordained in an Independent Christian Church, married a Christian Church girl, and enjoyed a life calling as a preacher and leader.

I’m thankful that our churches have grown and flourished over the years, but many of the institutions, colleges, publishing houses, conferences, and other critical ministries that once helped define us have begun to fade away. Christian Standard is the oldest of these and continues to boldly define our movement by sharing our stories and keeping us connected to each other, celebrating our independence while leveraging the power of our unity.

Everything that we produce—our magazine, our news, ministry resources, archives, and other helps—are available for free at christianstandard.com. The support of benefactors, strategic partners, advertisers, donors, and subscribers make this possible. We would like to extend a new kind of partnership to our supporting churches and we are asking for your church to participate in this partnership by remembering us in your mission budget.

We’ve created four levels of support for this effort:

Harvesting Church: A gift of $1,000.00 annually to Christian Standard

We will publish your church’s name in all 6 issues of our print and digital magazine. In addition, we will provide 20 subscriptions of our print magazine for the year that you can distribute as you see fit. Also, we will feature a 1,000 word “Church Spotlight” article that shares your church’s story.
—  We are praying for 100 churches to commit to this level —

Cultivating Church: A gift of $500.00 annually to Christian Standard

We will publish your church’s name in all 6 issues of our print and digital magazine. In addition, we will provide 10 subscriptions of our print magazine for the year that you can distribute as you see fit.
—  We are praying for 200 churches to commit to this level —

Watering Church: A gift of $250.00 annually to Christian Standard

We will publish your church’s name in all 6 issues of our print and digital magazine. In addition, we will provide 5 subscriptions of our print magazine for the year that you can distribute as you see fit.
—  We are praying for 500 churches to commit to this level —

Sowing Church: A gift of $100.00 annually to Christian Standard

We will publish your church’s name in all 6 issues of our print and digital magazine. In addition, we will provide 2 subscriptions of our print magazine for the year that you can distribute as you see fit.
—  We are praying for 1000 churches to commit to this level —

How will this money be used? Presently, we are very close to breaking even financially, but there are many other resources we would love to provide to our churches and readers—at no cost—that require additional funds to complete. This influx of donations that we pray will come through this campaign would help us realize those possibilities and put Christian Standard on solid ground for a healthy future. Our desire is to help churches, not be a burden to them, so we believe the donation scale we are proposing has a place for every church to offer support for this ministry without it being a financial burden. In so doing, we will not only continue the 160-year history of this unifying ministry but open new bridges for cooperation and offer best practices for strengthening our movement in the U.S. and abroad.

If you are willing, please respond to the email below and I will send an invoice for your payment. Thank you for your Kingdom service and your consideration of this request!!

Blessings in Christ,

Jerry Harris, Publisher
Christian Standard
aeharris@christianstandardmedia.com