Media Associates International (MAI) announces the appointment of Heather Pubols as its next Chief Executive Officer, effective November 11. She was unanimously and enthusiastically elected by the Board of Directors after an extensive selection process. Heather, a skilled global communications consultant and editor, will succeed John Maust on his retirement after 25 years in the position.
Missions communicators play an important role in helping an organization’s staff feel valued and supported.
Mission organizations fail to inspire the whole Church to join in God’s mission because they continue to undervalue and under-resource the contributions of missions journalists. But if they took journalism as a serious means of global education, it would radically shift global Church engagement in God’s mission.
Missions journalists “are an unseen force which remains largely unrecognized, misunderstood and undervalued,” yet the global Church desperately needs to develop a coherent, global narrative of God at work in the world today through missions.
About a week after my husband and I moved to Kenya in 2009 I took my first real trip through the grocery store to look for items that I needed for our home. The store near where we lived had an amazing variety! You could buy everything from a loaf of bread to a new kitchen table and everything in between. It was like a Kenyan Super Wal-Mart!
“I know how you can tell this story,” I said to a colleague with a smile. “Someone did something that made a positive change among some group of people in some country, and it’s so amazing everyone needs to know about it!”
In 2012 I took a media team to a country in central Africa to get stories about Bible translation projects in the country. We stayed in a guesthouse at an educational institution, and nearby was a school for the students’ children.
“Put away your cameras!” a man shouted…
Heather Pubols
Heather Pubols
Heather Pubols
Heather Pubols