The Messenger is the Official Publication of the Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church, Inc. This monthly magazine has been in continuous existence since the late 1800's.

The Messenger is published 6 times a year and entered as second-class postage paid at Dunn, NC.

NOTE FROM GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT PRESTON HEATH

Dear Messenger Subscriber,

I'm sure that you are enjoying the new format of our Messenger. As you can see we are making it more relevant to real life issues and real people that many times a subscriber may personally know. Our goal is to provide the reader with materials that they can't get from other published sources. We have changed the type of paper, number of pages, and the total approach to making the Messenger a viable publication coming into your home.

This letter is to share with you one more change that is necessary to make. Due to the cost of the above changes and the increasing cost of publishing the Messenger, we are changing the frequency of issue mailing. The Messenger will be mailed bimonthly, reducing the number of issues from 10 to 6 each year. This will allow the subscription rate to remain the same without an increased cost to our reader.

We are pleased that this will provide an improved quality of publication and more relevant articles for our readers.

Thank you for your continued interest and support of the Official PUblication of the PFWB Church.

Our new Messenger Publication has been a big hit with our subscribers. We would love to have more subscribers signing up, so please let us know if you are interested. If you aren't interested, please let us know what we could do with the Messenger to change your mind.

SUBSCRIPTIONS

Single Subscription Per Year: $6.50
Single Copy: $1.00
Bundles of at Least 10 per month: $ .60 each

To subscribe to The Messenger please send your name and address to the PFWB Headquarters - Amy Murphy. If you are mailing your subscription request please include $6.50/for a year long subscription. For phone, e-mail and fax orders we will bill you. Here are the ways you can subscribe:

Send all questions, changes of address, undeliverable copies and articles for publication to the e-mail, fax, phone or mailing address above.

GOT NEWS?

If your church has news you think would be of interest to The Messenger readers, or if you have good news about your pastor please submit in a Microsoft Word digital file. Submit photos in digital format, high resolution of at least 300 dpi, and in color. Photos must not be imbedded in a document. Submit news and photos by e-mail to: amurphy@intrstar.net or dblackman2@charter.net If you cannot submit digitally by e-mail, send a hardcopy through the US Mail to:
In The News Dept.
The Messenger
PO Box 1568
Dunn NC 28335

Please do not submit in handwritten form. We are often unable to read handwritten material. We do not accept poems or death announcements of local church members. The Messenger also no longer accepts unsolicited articles, manuscripts, poems, etc.

THE MESSENGER IS AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR PASTORS

The Messenger is now available to PFWB Ministers online. It can be accessed through the Clergy Section of the PFWB website and located in the Left side menu. To enter the Clergy section, PFWB Ministers must have their ID number and password. The ID number is the Conference License Number located on each minister’s Photo ID Card. The password can be obtained from Paula, Amy, or Danny at the Conference Resource Center or by e-mailing us. Back issues through July 2006 are posted. For now, The Messenger is best viewed with a DSL or Cable internet connection. This is due to the download time required, but the technical staff is working hard to improve the situation so that dial-up connections will experience quicker download times. The goal is to give all subscribers, clergy and laity, access to the publication online. The technical staff is working on that goal and hope to achieve it during 2007. Adobe Acrobat Reader software is required to access the publication. It is free and can be downloaded from the internet. The software allows printing as well as viewing The Messenger.

THE MESSENGER STAFF

EDITOR IN CHIEF
Preston Heath

TECHNICAL EDITOR
Danny Blackman

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Dock Hobbs, World Witness
Cathy Mozingo, General Services
Paula Holmes, Assistant to the Editor in Chief
Amy Murphy, Circulation Logistics

THE MESSENGER HISTORY

The church has published The Messenger, an eight-page bi-monthly magazine, since the late 1800's. When the publication began, the Cape Fear Conference published it under the name The Free Will Baptist Herald. The name was later changed to The Free Will Baptist Messenger with the sub-title: An Advocate of Bible Holiness. After the 1959 merger, the word Pentecostal was added to the name, causing it to be consistent with the name of the new denomination. It is today widely received as The Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Messenger.