It’s EASY to refer a friend to Rest Ministries!

Since our site when LIVE with the new updates 3 weeks ago we have had only 5 people use our new referral service. Since we’re paying a few bucks a month to have a quality service (no ads, no spam, etc.) we want to make sure you know about it!

Look for the button (see below) on nearly every page and click it to have a pop up message appear where you can enter in as many friend’s names and emails as you’d like. You’ll find it in the top left corner right under the bookmark button on every page.

And just so you know… we have no idea who you invite. All we get is a statistic that shows which pages on our site were “sent to friends” and how many times, so your privacy is complete!

Thank you!

 

Pray!

The best thing you can do for Rest Ministries this week is cover us in prayer! With the upcoming TV episode and other things happening at Rest Ministries we anticipate it’s just a matter of time before we are under attack. Every prayer helps!

 

Feature RM’s Devotionals on YOUR Web Site

Did you know you can feature Rest Ministries Devotionals on your very own web site or blog? It’s easy! Just get the code here, put it into your own web site… and each morning when our devotionals post, it will automatically be updated on your own site too!

This is a great way to add fresh content to your own site (which the search engines love by the way) while also providing your visitors with some wonderful encouragement… and letting them know about Rest Ministries!

 

Can You Give a Donation — Even a Small One?

Make a donation. Even if it’s just $2 it helps us out! Lisa is just about done with the brand new web site which would have cost about $30,000 had she paid someone else to do it, but she has donated her time in order to keep Rest Ministries growing.

But we do have debt and lots of printing costs coming up since we’re running out of our books. We know that most people on our mailing list have financial stresses, so we very rarely send out a donation request letter. But that doesn’t mean your gifts aren’t needed or appreciated.

Did you know that 18% of online users have made a charitable donation on the internet? Your donations help us reach more people! We have loads of great plans, but have to delay them because of budget restraints. Every little bit helps!

Yes! I want to help Rest Ministries Encourage More People!

 

Write a Review About Rest Ministries YouTube Video!

Last week Erin shared how she found us: “I was surfing the web on a night when I felt so alone in my pain and illness, and found your video clip on YouTube. Then I went to your website and ordered your book. The week I received the book and started to read it, I also decided to join a new disabilities support group at my church, Cornerstone Christian Fellowship, here in Chandler, AZ. To my surprise they were using your bible study book When Chronic Illness Enters Your Life. I was so amazed that God works in such interconnected ways in the lives of so many. So thank you so much for your ministry. We have an amazing God!”

You may have read above how Erin found our ministry through YouTube. Isn’t that kind of cool? If you could head on over to our video at the YouTube web site and write a brief review about Rest Ministries of our video, that would be great! It helps us rank higher when people put in certain key words. Who knows how many other lives we can touch through the video. Thank you!

 

Tell your local Christian bookstores buyer that Lisa/Rest Ministries will be at ICRS

ICRS stands for International Christian Retail Show and it will be held July 13-17, 2008 in Orlando, FL. We have some of our books with a distributor so any bookstore (from Berean to Borders) can order them through Ingram.

Most Christian bookstore owners spend a lot of time doing ministry–talking to people about their circumstances and trying to find the right books to meet the needs of the person or the one the customer is shopping for. They know there is a need for books that address chronic illness, but they don’t know we exist. We had a lot of happy bookstore owners last year when they found out about Rest Ministries!

I will be signing books at booths 1428 (Christian Small Publishers Association) and likely 2127 (Christian Leaders Authors Speakers Services). Times will be posted at the Rest Publishers web site as soon as I know them. If the boosktore owner pre-registers for ICRS they will likely get a postcard from me before the event too!

And if they aren’t going? No big deal! We’d be happy to send them information about our books and marketing materials for National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week.

Thanks in advance!

 

Review Rest Ministries on Amazon

Did you know you can review Rest Ministries on Amazon? Below is what one person shared. If you can click here and then write a brief review, it will help us pop up quickly when people search Amazon for information on illness books, especially Christian ones.

“Before moving to southern California from Missouri, I did a lot of research on the internet. I found a list of organizations based out of San Diego, and Rest Ministries was on that list. I immediately went to the site and found that it is an answer to my prayers! The site contains a tremendous amount of useful information, including articles, books for sale, information about the Hope Keepers groups which exist throughout the nation, enabling individuals with chronic pain and/or chronic illness to meet others, thus enabling them to support and encourage each other, pray together, and network. The site is also accessible to me–a blind person who uses a voice synthesizer to read the screen–and that, too, was an answer to my prayer. I thank God for leading me to this site and I pray that He will show me how I can serve Him in this ministry. I am so thankful that Lisa allowed God to use her to begin this incredible ministry! I praise God for this web site!”