Hi!

In case you don’t know us, our names are Jim and Cindy McDermott. We love the Lord Jesus Christ and want to serve him as best we can. God has also blessed us with 11 children and given us the opportunity to homeschool all of them who are of age. We have 7 girls and 4 boys. The oldest is 17 and the youngest is 7 months.

About 5 years ago we started a publication called SALT magazine, because we had a passion for the practical issues of Christian living many churches find too controversial or too mundane to address. What issues are those?

1. Birth Control: Did you know that many forms of birth control cause the baby to die shortly after conception? If we believe children are a blessing and that God will provide for the children he gives us, why do we try so hard not to have them?
2. Courtship and Dating: Paul told Timothy to treat the younger women like sisters with absolute purity. Did your dating practices reflect this principle? Do your children’s? Could there be a better way?
3. Education: Why do most Christians send their young children away for most of the day? Could it be that having our children spend most of their time with the children of unbelievers in a setting where even the mention of God (except as a curse word) is considered controversial and divisive is spiritually dangerous?
4. Christian Family: Do men and women have equal authority in the family, or does God appoint men to headship? We think the Scriptures are clear on this point, but even in Christian homes the men won’t lead and the women won’t submit.
5. Children: Which is more important: passing on our faith to our children and teaching them how to live the Christian life or helping them to be “successful.” If our children don’t read the Scriptures and there is no family teaching, what does that say about our priorities?
6. Household Management: A clean and organized house is a blessing, but an atheist can have a clean and organized house. Are we cleaning and organizing for our pleasure, convenience, and glory, or so we can accomplish more for God’s kingdom?

Interest in SALT has slowly increased. Our subscribers are scattered all over the country. We have hundreds of hits/day on our website (www.saltmagazine.com) where a number of articles have been posted. Requests for free issues of SALT have come from all over the world. 1/4 of the free issue requests the last four months have come unsolicited from overseas – the majority from countries you would least expect. It is humbling to know that every day people from all over the world are being reached with the message.

It has been difficult to devote the time and the money necessary to maintain an expanding ministry while both working outside the home. It is our hope and our prayer that we could devote ourselves full-time to this ministry.

Therefore, we would like you to consider becoming partners with us in this work. I know there are many fine Christian organizations that would love to have your financial support – and you can’t support them all. Nevertheless, we ask you to pray for our ministry and to prayerfully consider becoming financial supporters.

One-time gifts are especially appreciated at this time. We have hundreds of free issue requests for SALT Magazine that need to be filled. However, what we need long-term are people who will support us monthly. This will ensure that the work will continue.

Will you join us? If God is moving you to give, please send a check made payable to SALT to the address above.

Thank you and may God bless you and your family

Jim & Cindy McDermott