What is 'Good News'?

Good News is a great value eight-page monthly evangelistic newspaper used by churches and missions across the country. Full of dynamic testimonies and celebrity interviews, it's an ideal bridge into your community with the Gospel.

You can give Good News to people in your area in many ways, for example:

• Door-to-door in your neighbourhood
• Gifts for guests at church services and evangelistic events
• Through community groups who use your church building, such as parent and toddler groups, OAP luncheon clubs, etc.
• Handing personally to family, friends, neighbours and work colleagues
• Distribution in prisons, hospitals, dentists' and doctors' waiting rooms

Every issue describes how to become a Christian, and there is a form for readers to fill in who would like further information about the Christian faith. For local follow-up, space is provided on the back page to add your local contact details, and we can produce a localised edition for you with your information on both the front and back pages - see the To order section for further details.

What's in it?

Good News is designed to appeal to those who would normally buy a tabloid newspaper, e.g. Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, The Sun. Every issue contains dynamic testimonies of people who have found that knowing Jesus is a life-changing experience, both celebrities and 'ordinary' Christians, plus other articles that feature the 'good news' of what God is doing in the world today.

To show that Christianity is concerned with the whole of life, not just the spiritual dimension, Good News also contains articles on common interests like gardening, motoring and health, and those indispensable parts of every newspaper - a crossword and sudoku!

What's your theology/denominational influence?

Good News is non-denominational and the theological position is that of the Evangelical Alliance.

Who publishes Good News?

The paper is published by the Good News Fellowship - a team of Christians from a variety of backgrounds and different churches, some in full-time ministry, some in secular work. All share a heart for evangelism and all have many years' experience either in newspaper outreach, general evangelism or Christian publishing.

The members of the Good News Fellowship are:

• Peter Russell from Shrewsbury. Peter works in a Christian bookshop and is a member of Crowmoor Baptist Church.
• Rev John S Mutton and Christine Mutton from Chesterfield. John is Chairman and Co-ordinator of Distributions north of Leicester, in Scotland and Northern Ireland. They attend Chesterfield Baptist Church.
• Donald Banks from Worthing, West Sussex, is the original editor of Good News, and former editor of Challenge Newspaper. An Anglican, Donald is one of the Trustees and deals with the paper's finances.
• Rev Peter Spafford from Oldbury, West Midlands. His church is Londonderry Baptist Church in Oldbury. He is a Baptist minister and also a Trustee of the Fellowship.
• Owen Williams from Peterborough is a dedicated man of prayer, and attends a Baptist church.
• Jean Houghton from Whittlesey near Peterborough deals with most of the newspapers which the Fellowship send free into many prisons. She attends a Methodist church.
• Elaine and Don Robinson from Peterborough. Elaine is Co-ordinator of Distributions south of Leicester, in Wales and Southern Ireland. Don is a Trustee. They attend an Anglican church.
• Rob Stoba from Furness Vale in Derbyshire. Rob attends an Anglican church and is a parish evangelist.
• Andrew Halloway from Nottingham. Andrew is the Editor of Good News, our website editor and is a member of a Pentecostal church on the outskirts of the city.
   

Why just 8 pages?

Most secular newspapers do, of course, have more pages than Good News. But our experience shows that keeping the newspaper to eight pages has several advantages:

1. It keeps the price down. Few churches have vast budgets. Good News is by far the least expensive evangelistic newspaper purchased in the UK. At only 15p per copy, or 12p if you buy just 100+, it is less than half the cost of others.
2. It's practical for distributors. If you are doing door-to-door delivery, a large bundle of newspapers can be quite heavy and cumbersome. But an eight-pager is light and therefore more copies can be carried by individuals and more houses covered in a shorter time!
3. It's enough for the reader. If you haven't caught a reader's attention and interest in eight pages, it's unlikely that more pages will make any difference. Someone who is being given a newspaper like Good News, as opposed to buying a paper for themselves, will quickly decide whether they want to read it or not. Adding extra pages won't affect that decision.
4. It keeps postage costs down. For those who post the paper to others, weight and size now make a big difference to the price of postage.

Who is the Editor?

Andrew Halloway joined the Good News Fellowship as Editor of the paper from the October 2007 issue. He has 18 years of experience in Christian publishing. He worked for CWR (Crusade for World Revival) as an editor and writer for four years and for CPO (Christian Publishing and Outreach) as editorial manager and then publishing manager for eight years. At New Life Publishing, where he was editorial manager for five years, he was Editor of another evangelistic newspaper, New Life, and Deputy Editor of the official monthly magazines of two national church denominations. He is married to Mandy, has two daughters and lives in Nottingham. If you would like to contact Andrew, email the Editorial Department through the form on the Contact section of this website, or if that doesn't appear on your screen, call 0115 9233 424 or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .