mikey's funnies

Why do you have to take donations?

First, giving folks the opportunity to donate to the Funnies allows others who can't to still receive them.

Second, I do have direct costs related to the Funnies. There are costs with Gospelcom (our site and list host), costs related to some programming for the online subscription tool, domain name costs, postal box, etc.

Third, in order to support my family, I need to have income related to the significant time I spend doing the Funnies. To help you understand the commitment, here is a list of my tasks:

• Reading and deleting or saving possible Funnies sent to me
  
• Scanning and choosing the Funnies (over 200 a year)
  
• Cleaning the chosen Funnies (grammar, misspellings, extra spacing, etc.)
  
• Dropping each one into the Funnies template
  
• Choosing and adding a Thot to each
  
• Uploading the Funnies to the server
  
• Taking care of technical problems/interacting with Gospelcom support
  
• Daily helping people (over 25,000 subscribers):
  
• subscribe
  
• unsubscribe
  
• change their address
  
• find an old Funny
  
• respond to questions/comments/criticisms
  
• Finding opportunities to promote the Funnies list to others

So, obviously, it's a little more than quickly shooting an email out each day. But it's something I'm committed to. Since 1996 I've seen how God has used this silly thing as a ministry and resource to others. Go figure. I'm just trying to be responsible for my time for the sake of my family.

Hope that makes sense,
Mikey

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