Help Spread the Message
The Holy Hands for Zimbabwe project has been launched by one man with an idea, backed by the power of God. This project is not supported by a massive budget or elaborate media.
If President Robert Mugabe’s mailbox is to be choked with postcards and letters, it will be because people like you took time to share this message. The World Wide Web makes it possible for an idea to “go viral,” to speed around the world, reaching thousands of people in a matter of hours.
What can you do? Pray for God to inspire you with creativity! Here are some ideas to prime your pump.
1. Start with your email address book and postal address book. Share a link to this web site with everyone you know.
http://www.prayforzimbabwe.com2. Do you get emails from Christian newsletters? Send the link to them. Ask them to write about this Holy Hands For Zimbabwe movement.
3. Send the link to your local Christian radio station(s). Encourage them to send people to the web site. Suggest that they contact Ron Hauenstein, the man behind God’s Holy Hands movement, at ron@prayforzimbabwe.com for an interview. Ask them to promote the web site on their web page.
4. Enlist your church’s support. Suggest that your church prepare enough preaddressed post cards for everyone who attends a Sunday service. Ask that 5 minutes be set aside in a service for people to hear about Zimbabwe and to write a simple message of God’s love to President Mugabe.
5. Contact your national and international denominational offices. Ask them to promote the web site and the campaign in their newsletters and emails and web sites.
6. Do you have a citywide, statewide, or nationwide association of churches? Find their offices and send them to the web site. Ask them to inform their member churches immediately.
7. Send the press release to your local newspaper. They probably will assign it to the religion editor, but the story may have enough appeal (who prays for dictators?) to run as a general news story.
8. Are you familiar with or belong to any missionary organizations, such as New Tribes, Wycliffe, or Pioneers? This is a worldwide movement. We want President Mugabe to hear from people around the world. Ask these organizations to spread the news about the Holy Hands movement.
9. Include missionary friends, if they weren’t included in Item 1 above.
10. Use social network web sites such as MySpace and Facebook. Post this link http://www.prayforzimbabwe.com there. Join chat rooms and discussion groups and forums so others may know.
11. Send the link to this short youtube video to all of your friends. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L08NV-omWdw
12. Keep praying and thinking! If you have another idea to add to this list, send it to ron@prayforzimbabwe.com.