Ministry Highlights 2023
COMMUNICATION EXPERTISE WITH A KINGDOM MINDSET
Serving missionaries, nonprofits, and mission agencies
Winter | Q1
The Good Story grew!
After petitioning the Lord year after year for enough funding to expand our team, we finally got our “YES” in the form of Adara Wright. She has added her abundant talent and heart for the Kingdom to TGS as our Senior Graphic Designer and Ryan’s “right-hand design woman.” She has quite literally allowed us to double our workload and blessed us with her incredible work ethic and beautiful aesthetics!
“After ten years of serving in Malawi, co-founder Steven Chartier learned that the root causes of poverty cannot be broken by education alone. Sixty percent of college graduates in Malawi cannot find full-time employment and 8 out of 10 businesses fail within the first three years. The tragic result is educated young people returning to the cycle of poverty. What if there was a place where biblical leadership and strong entrepreneurial training could provide the toolset to help college graduates CREATE new jobs and break them out of the poverty cycle?”
Good Soil Partners promo video
A huge thank you to Ambassador, Matt McNeill, for your excellent work filming and producing this video.
Spring | Q2
Gospelink Magazine
Gospelink Ministries approached us to create a comprehensive 25th-anniversary logo, magazine and annual report. Adara knocked it out of the park, designing a beautiful 30-page magazine celebrating the faithful and enduring work of Gospelink around the world! Through this ministry, over 47,000 churches have been planted! That’s a VERY good story to tell!
Burundi Hope Project Makeover
All hands were on deck for Burundi Hope Project in order to give them a top-to-bottom communication makeover that truly represents the robust ministries happening on the ground, overall impact, and the ongoing needs. They received a shiny new logo, ministry brochure, Mailchimp template, and website.
On top of all the new print and web assets, Ambassador Adam Langdon created a stunning ministry-wide film, and Ambassador Jonah Jabbour created a promotional interest video for the blind and deaf schools.
Summer | Q3
Sabbatical
As many of you know, our board approved a much needed 10-week sabbatical break. For six of those weeks, we were sent as a family to the UK by a supporter of the ministry. This was a deeply moving and shaping experience for all of us, which I shared about in our September newsletter. If you didn’t get a chance to read the story, click below.
Fall | Q4
Our turn to shine!
Want to know who else got a makeover? The Good Story! There are no shortcuts in the monumental process of overhauling your own website, services, and branding. Ticker tape was thrown and party horns blown on release day. It feels good to have a site that fully represents where TGS is today. If you haven’t had a chance to poke around, please do!
THE GOOD STORE: Home of Prayer Card, Mailchimp, and Squarespace Templates for Missionaries
Ryan jokingly threw that name out, and I loved it! We’ve not only combined all our templated services into one page, but Adara created over a dozen new designs to added fresh new colors and layouts to our repertoire. You can find the store in the top menu of our website.
Embrace Ministry
The birth of a brand-new ministry happened this year and we were honored to be chosen to create all their forward-facing communication. This is a very tall order, but when your ministry partner is one of the sweetest men on the planet, this vast process becomes one full of joy. Adara led the charge, creating a full communication suite, including: logo, prayer card, business cards, PowerPoint templates, Mailchimp template, and website.
“I can’t say enough about The Good Story. Any nonprofit needs to first understand what its mission is and then find a partner to help present and package the heart of that mission in a way people can digest quickly. The Good Story excels in listening to and understanding the unique struggles that exist for international Christian nonprofits. They have helped us reset our messaging and strategy through their wide range of professional storytelling services, all with the goal of maximizing our fundraising efforts. I now know Asian Hope can confidently build from here.”
Paul Tesi, President
Asian Hope
A special thank you to our partner organizations served this year!
Know any missionaries or ministries?
Spread the word about the services and training offered through The Good Story! Word of mouth is the most powerful way you can help us serve more people. If you are or know of a small, internationally-focused, gospel-centered ministry in need of communication support from a ministry that understands (and lives) the unique challenges of small ministries doing great things but struggling to communicate, we’d love to connect.
Partner with us
Like all Christian nonprofits, we depend on the generous and consistent financial support of the body of Christ. We ask you to prayerfully consider a generous year-end gift and/or becoming a monthly partner of The Good Story. Without faithful supporters, we cannot continue this vital Kingdom work of equipping and training missionaries, agencies, and small gospel-bearing non-profits.