International Christian Writers Report

Stanley Baldwin, Founder and Editor This is a sample of the free monthly email publication sent to members of ICW, ICW NET and ICW Prayer Fellowship. ARCHIVES: previous reports May 2007 Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Humans Call for Articles for SPCH Job Opportunities Next Saturday, May 19

1. Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Humans
by Stanley Baldwin

Last month this Report carried my personal appeal asking for your input as I was in the process of organizing the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to People (SPCP). I want to sincerely and heartily thank those who responded with your encouraging emails. It meant a lot to me.

I am pleased to tell you that we have made great strides in the month since then. Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Humans (we changed the name from people to humans) is now incorporated as a recognized non-profit organization by the State of Oregon . Our next step is to file for tax exempt status with the IRS.

We also have an operating website (actually, four of them). Please go to www.preventcrueltytohumans.com for our main site, and for much more information than I can give here.

One of the other sites in operation is www.preventcrueltytochildren.com. This site relates to our children’s division and is the work of our first Division Director, Julie Johnson. Julie is highly qualified for this job with many years experience at leadership levels on child-related issues, both locally and nationally. Please visit her site.

We are praying to the Lord of the harvest to provide directors for the other Society divisions: seniors, workplace, politics, religion, public life, healthcare, and the poor.

Your personal recommendations will carry a lot of weight, and the person need not necessarily be from the Pacific Northwest.

You are invited to become a Charter Member of SPCH’s Dolphin Club. The Charter Member roster will be closed when 100 people have qualified. Charter Members make a one-time contribution of $50 to $500 or more to SPCH. For more information, email scbaldwin2@yahoo.com or go to www.preventcrueltytohumans.com.

2. Call for Articles for SPCH
Writers: Come Help Change the World!

One need not look far to see that we are immersed in a culture of cruelty. In just one daily newspaper (The Oregonian, May 5, 2007), you can read that:

Fewer than half of the soldiers and marines in Iraq said noncombatants should be treated with dignity and respect.
Three Molalla high school students were charged with violent sex abuse of a teammate. The mother of one offender said: “We’re thinking that they made too big a deal of it. It’s something that the kids all did in fun.”
“Payday and car title lenders . . . prey on the poor and the desperate. These businesses charged an average of 528 percent annualized interest.”
A woman driver killed a bicyclist in a hit and run on Foster Road. There were two women in the car; each claimed the other was driving.

W e don’t have space to talk of TV and movies and video games. Of rap music and Internet bullying and radio trash-talk. Of political mud-slinging and racism and child abuse and senior neglect. Of--- well, you get the idea.

Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Humans (SPCH) has a twofold agenda:

To encourage personal acts of decency and kindness.
To challenge and change the prevailing culture of cruelty.

The Society has a plan:
Our culture has radically shifted for the better over the past generation with regard to one social evil: smoking. How was this achieved? The data showed and the Surgeon General declared that smoking caused cancer and was a huge negative in society. As that message was driven home, it changed the culture.

The Society intends to employ a similar tactic with regard to meanness and cruelty. For that we need writers who will provide articles with three characteristics:

Articles will be well-researched and offer hard data related to the damaging effects of meanness and cruelty. The writer will cite credible sources such as studies that have been done, professionals who have spoken, reliable statistics that have been compiled.

2. Articles will put a human face on the data with compelling anecdotes and examples.

3. Articles will focus on one specific aspect of the problem, corresponding with

a Division of the Society, such as: Children, Seniors, the Workplace, Schools, Politics, Religion, Public Life (includes media), Health Care, and so on.

Writer Guideline Specifics
Length is flexible since much of the publishing will be online where space requirements are not so strict. (Of course we still want tight, focused writing.)

Rights: The writer will grant SPCH the right to unlimited use of the material including in all electronic and print media. The writer will retain the right to publish the same material in other venues so long as SPCH-prescribed credit line is used.

Doctrine: SPCH operates on Judeo-Christian principles and all published writings will be consistent with those principles. They will not, however, reflect any particular doctrinal position or exhibit any churches’ distinctive expressions.

Payment will consist of a credit line on the published material in whatever form it appears. The writer will receive copies when the material is issued in print media. In addition, each writer will receive a copy of the Society’s manifesto, a book entitled A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to Save Civilization by SPCH president Stanley C. Baldwin.

Why Write for SPCH? We want writers who believe in the SPCH cause and who see this as an opportunity to contribute.

Submissions to: scbaldwin@preventcrueltytohumans.com

“Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.” Robert Burns

Isn’t it time to do something about it?

3. Job Opportunities:

Sharon Mumper of Magazine Training International writes:

We've made the move to the US from Austria and we're looking for new staff. We are a missions enterprise and our staff are considered missionaries, because our focus is still overseas, even though we're now based in Colorado Springs. That means that it is necessary for the staff to raise support. However, in recognition of the fact that it can be difficult to raise missionary support for someone based in the US, our board decided to offer a base salary of $12,500/year. The missionary would raise the rest of whatever is needed to live on.

The positions open are writer/editor, assistant to the president, and new media coordinator.

For more information:

Sharon Mumper, President
Magazine Training International
5376 Tomah Dr., Suite 210
Colorado Springs, CO 80918

Tel: (719) 598-9743
Fax: (719) 598-1007

Email: smumper@magazinetraining.com
SharonMumper@compuserve.com

For more information on job opportunities, check out the Web site: www.magazinetraining.com

4. Next Saturday, May 19

Attention: Friends from the Pacific Northwest who plan to attend the May 19 conference of Oregon Christian Writers in Eugene Look for Julie Johnson, our new Director of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Julie will be introduced to the conferees by OCW President DJ Young at the 9 a.m. opening session. Later, at the 11:40 hour, she will speak briefly about SPCH and its editorial needs. The rest of the day she will be available to talk individually with interested friends.

Attention: Friends from the Nashville area. I will be mentoring writers at the annual ACW writers retreat on Friday and Saturday, May 18-19. Most of that time I will be busy with conferees, but I’d be pleased to meet you and visit about SPCH (or anything else) from 8-9:30 a.m. on Saturday only.

That’s it for this month. Until next time, keep writing. Remember that you can send a manuscript to me for our Brave Souls Writing Clinic. Keep it short—under 800 words-- and you are eligible for a free critique. And once again, thank you for your response.

Stanley Baldwin, Director

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