Most people don’t know this, but Google Friend Connect has a really awesome feature that allows you to send newsletters to your blog’s subscribers via e-mail. I came across this feature a while back and thought it was pretty cool, but it wasn’t until Monday night that I utilized it for the first time and sent a message to 176 of my readers reminding you not to hesitate in sending me your prayer requests. Apparently, if you have somewhat lenient privacy settings you were automatically subscribed to any updates when you followed this blog, while those who have especially strict settings were not.

Anyway, I’ve decided to start sending out a periodic “newsletter” (for lack of a better term) once or twice a month that will consist of anything from prayer requests to recommended blogs and encouragement from Scripture. As I mentioned, around 80% of you are already subscribed to these updates, so you probably won’t find it necessary to subscribe manually; but if you do, simply find the appropriate widget on my sidebar and click subscribe. If you decide later on that you would like to cancel your subscription, just come back here and click unsubscribe or do so from your inbox. It’s that simple.

Unfortunately, there is no way for me to manually add your e-mail address to my list of subscribers or even to see exactly who my updates are sent to. This means you must have a Google account to subscribe and that any “sign-me-up” comments won’t do much good. On the other hand, Google makes it very simple for you to create an account with them and it will only take up a few seconds of your time to do so. Once you’re finished, just return here and follow the steps above to begin receiving my newsletter. As I mentioned, it will be sent out very periodically so don’t think something went wrong if you don’t receive anything right away. I just thought it would be a great way of passing along more important messages without having to worrying whether everybody saw it or not. Let me know what you think!