Call us visionaries or say we have short attention spans, but we’re already thinking about OBO 2020. Along with 2020 comes our eighth year of being around!! That’s right, I started OBO back when I was a glasses-wearing, black-velvet-jumpsuit-rocking 12-year-old homeschooler.
That’s where it’s at, yo!
I took about a month to really carefully consider and pray about continuing to print and sell OBO. I was really torn up about it but found a printer that could significantly lower our prices. It’s always been my dream to write, and I never imagined that I could be the medium through which other writing-loving girls/young women could be published.
So, issues will be $10 next year with free shipping!
Compared to $18 this year . . .
Booyah. I’m excited, and I hope you are too.
With that said, every year we have a theme. This will be our eighth theme (imagine that) and I’m being feely and calling it ELEMENTS. Basically, we’ll be looking at what makes up our Christian life. This includes:
- Doing devotions {GROW}
- Praying {INTERCEDE}
- Worshiping God {WORSHIP}
- Serving others {SERVE}
- Encouraging others in the faith {EDIFY}
- Ministering {WITNESS}
I am very excited to be taking another step towards making the magazine clearly Christian. When I decided to go down this path two years ago, it was scary, no joke. It’s easy to be a simple lifestyle magazine; that makes it easier to ask local coffee shops to sell or advertise. But I’m not called to be comfortable or a coward. I’m called to be brave. So, yes; that may look like running a Christian magazine in a country that is growing more and more hostile to the gospel. I call it a privilege to cling onto my freedom of speech while I can and use my words for good.
Along with the magazine theme, here’s what else you can expect from us in 2020.
OBO 2020
- Weekly Beloved Chat videos (make sure you’re subscribed!!)
- Mailing list with weekly devotionals and updates on blog posts
- Growing our Instagram page (can we hit 1k??)
- 6 gorgeous magazine issues
- Devotionals, free and purchasable
- Weekly blog posts
- Super cool gear
- & most definitely MORE!
