The Child Has Been Delivered

Our baby was delivered today! That is, the first boxes of samples of the September issue of Christian Standard came this morning, and we're pretty pleased with this first monthly edition. I went over to Kroger's and spent almost $50 on goodies, and we had a "coming out" party this afternoon and invited the whole office to come see our creation. People said nice things, and I suppose those who didn't have anything positive to say just said nothing, but that's OK. I hope to come up with a plan to get objective feedback, and there'll be time for that later. But nobody passes out grade cards to people viewing a new baby in the nursery. They just expect them to smile and say how beautiful the new child is. That was the agenda today, but we'll be thinking about what we could have done better when we put together the October issue, which goes to the printer in about three weeks!
Meanwhile, this issue is in the mail now, and we'll be waiting to see how our readers react!