Jan: It’s time to fill in your Kickstarter Survey and Crowdfunder Results.
Happy New Year. Here’s what we’ve got this month…
Backers: It’s time to fill in your Kickstarter Pledge Manager
Charity Crowdfunder Results
Review the Great Commission Card Game
Urgent: It’s time to fill in your Kickstarter Pledge Manager!
Lots of you have done so, but 165 backers are still outstanding.
We didn't include shipping costs in the campaign, so they need to be covered now as well, please.
Get a Thank You: You need to supply your permission and name in order to be thanked in the back of the book. These will be locked in on Thurs afternoon.
4pm UK/11am EST
If you submit your name for thank-you after that, it won't be in the printed book because it will already be off to the printers.
Apologies that this wasn't done earlier. I couldn't send the survey without the pledge manager, and we needed the pledge manager to be completed as close to the fulfilment as possible to avoid price hikes.
Charity Crowdfunder Results
Firstly, thanks so much to everybody who supported this charity Crowdfunder. It hits its goal, allowing us to send over 2,500 Bible comics into prisons across the USA this Christmas. A special shout-out to those handful of heavy lifters who gave generously to this initiative!
Many of the Spanish editions were sent to ICE detention units. These detainees were given the Gospels and other books before Christmas, thanks to you.
Here they are getting send out by the Touching Lives charity.
Here is a message from Joyce at Touching Lives about how it's going…
”We are working in the states that start with "O" and "P" right now. So, we would have sent to facilities in Ohio, Oregon, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania. We did special shipments to a couple ICE units in TX, CO and a youth facility in TN. We will continue to send out as many as we can until we run out.
We will be starting Texas soon so there will be a lot go there. There are tons of prisons in TX. The shipping lineup for the next two weeks will not only have the O and P states, but I have orders lined up for ICE/Spanish language units in California, Nevada and several more in Texas.
The comics are becoming something that is asked for quite frequently. Thank you for partnering with us in getting the gospel to the incarcerated. It is making a difference and people are coming to know Jesus through the comics. A youth in TN gave his heart to the Lord last year after reading a comic we sent to the facility.”
Reviews: Did you play The Great Commission at Christmas?
If you haven't already added your review to our Board Game Geeks page, we'd love you to do so.
The score is an aggregate, so feel free to vote up the number to get it closer to what you think the game deserves ;)
It's still standing strong at 8.4, which is an outstanding result in comparison to other games.
Head here:
Or there’s Amazon. Pleae add a score there too (there’s only 3 so far):
Prayer Requests
Prison Books Donated: Please pray that these Bible comics will make a big impact on the lives of the people who receive them. Pray that for many, it will share the gospel with them for the first time. We want to pray for the people in ICE detainment units, and even for those detaining them, that they might discover the peace of the gospel too.
Partnerships: Please continue to pray for us as we have talks with bigger players as we look at potential partnerships.
Game Awards: We've entered the game into the UK Games Expo awards nominations. The judges will be deciding over the next few months which games they like. Please pray that they find the right judge to give it the best possible chance at winning or being a runner-up.
