Correspondence

Hi Mark,

This is a great direction — I really like leading with the teaching podcast. It gives the session a clear front door, and everything else can hang off of it as supporting material. Session 4 is built and ready for your review.

Because the podcast is the main tool this time, I built the page around it: the 21-minute teaching audio is the first thing you see and hear, with its own player. From there the page walks through the five principles for talking politics, the four liberties worth defending, and the roundtable questions — with the answers tucked behind a "reveal" so your group can wrestle with each question first. Your short video and the field guide sit at the bottom as extra resources.

The top of the Session 004 page — the teaching podcast leads, in the same interactive style as Sessions 2 and 3.

Two small things to flag, both easy to change if you'd rather:

• I numbered the five principles 1 through 5. The handout had two of them both labeled "4," so I renumbered so the page reads cleanly.
• The handout and infographic call the four liberties "pillars." Since we already use "the four Champion Pillars" for Study, Prayer, Engagement, and Hospitality, I called these four the "Non-Negotiables" on the page so the two ideas don't get confused. Happy to switch the wording if you'd prefer to keep "pillars."

One thing worth a listen when you have a minute: give the podcast player a quick play to make sure the audio sounds the way you want. Everything else I've tested end to end.

If this format works for you, I'll post it live and we can carry the same podcast-first approach forward for the rest of Year 2. And whenever the earlier Year 2 sessions (1 through 3) are ready, send them my way and I'll build those pages to match.

Let me know what you think.

Best,
Gary

Hi Mark,

Doing well, thank you — and good news: Session 1 is built and ready for your review. I know the timing matters with your church body in convention this weekend, so this one's ready to post whenever you give the word.

I built it in the same podcast-first style as Session 4, since that's the direction you're taking the curriculum. The teaching podcast leads at the top with its own player, and the page walks through the whole introduction underneath: the two-kingdom idea (God blessing and preserving, and God saving), what's inside the Academy, why we champion liberty for others, the five-fold purpose, a short vocabulary list, and the theme passage with a phrase-by-phrase plan to learn 1 Peter 2:15–17 by heart. Your review video and the full teaching script are at the bottom as resources, and there's a 10-question quiz to close.

The top of the Session 001 page — the teaching podcast leads.

Two quick things worth knowing:

• Give the podcast a quick play when you have a minute, just to confirm the audio sounds the way you want. Everything else I've tested end to end.
• Sessions 2 and 3 are still in the older video-first style from earlier this year. Now that Session 1 and Session 4 share this new podcast-first look, whenever you rework 2 and 3 I'll rebuild those pages to match, so the whole year feels like one piece.

Say the word and I'll post it live — plenty of time before the weekend for your show-and-tell in Phoenix.

Talk soon,
Gary

Hi Mark,

First, my apologies — I should have told you sooner. I'm out of the office tomorrow and won't be able to make our morning meeting. That's my fault for not flagging it earlier in the week, and I'm sorry for the short notice. Happy to reschedule for whenever suits you.

The good news is I didn't want to hold up the brochure, so it's built and ready for your conference. One sheet, front and back, print-ready.

Front and back — 8.5 × 11, double-sided, with bleed and crop marks for the printer.

Download the print-ready PDF →

What's on it. I pulled the content from both of your Word flyers:

• Front — the mission, the two-kingdom doctrine (to preserve it / to save it), and “Who are the Champions?” as Common People, Advocates, and Connectors.
• Back — the Academy (10 sessions a year, discussion guides and home study, the Community Action Plan), the Toolchest (Toolkit, Connections, Facilitators), the four outcomes, and the Champions Discovery Weekend with your contact details and a QR code to book a call.

Two small things I straightened out. I kept our brand language throughout — cultural servants rather than “laity.” And because your two documents named things differently, I settled it the way the website already does: the Academy is the curriculum inside the Network, not a separate thing.

Your NotebookLM pass was a genuinely useful outline, by the way — a good part of what told me what deserved space on the back. I didn't carry its artwork across, since the contact details in it are placeholders and the color and type drift from our brand. But you were right that the terminology was the stubborn part.

If anything needs changing — wording, emphasis, what earns space on the back — send it over and I'll turn it around well before the conference. There's time.

Again, sorry to miss tomorrow.

Gary