We have recently been seeking ways to raise the income of the Challenger account, which is the printing ministry of Tabernacle Baptist Church. Because of greatly increased expenses over the past two years, this account has been overburdened to keep up.
Some of you are aware that we have placed the Plains Baptist Challenger on the web site of Tabernacle Baptist Church for a number of years now. The complete Challenger could be read, downloaded, copied, or anything else a person wanted to do with it free of charge from the web site. We have now decided, because of the financial condition of our printing ministry, to sell an email subscription of the Challenger beginning in September 2007. We will no longer place the new edition of the Challenger on our web site, but a person can buy an email subscription for $4.00 per year and receive a complete Challenger every month sent to his email address. The Challenger will be sent in the html format, and this will allow you to print any portion of the paper, or all of the paper at your discretion. The email subscription cost is less than the yearly printed subscription cost of $7.00, so there is a savings to you over the printed and posted edition of the paper. Of course, it will cost us much less to send a Challenger through email than to print and post it.
We are not going to discontinue the printed and posted version of the Challenger, but we are going to discontinue posting any new Challenger editions on our web site. We do not desire to keep the truth that is printed in the Plains Baptist Challenger out of anyone's hands. However, we must continue to seek ways to increase the income of the Challenger account and to find ways to decrease the expenses. If you are interested in subscribing to the email edition of the Plains Baptist Challenger, please contact us.