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AFA Activism
Effective Letter Writing
You can have your voice heard in your local community with an effective "Letter to the Editor"
12/11/2000
When you consider people who have a great impact on our culture and society, whose names come to mind? Billy
Graham, Peter Jennings, or Michael Jordan? How would you like to add your name to that list? You can and you don't have to be famous. Instead, you can have a great influence simply by writing
thoughtful letters to the editor of your newspaper. Heres how.
We can have a larger readership - and perhaps, greater influence - than the editor himself. After the front page, the letters to the editor are the most widely read section of the newspaper.
Most newspapers will print letters from anyone who resides in their circulation area. You might consider writing letters to the editor as a family project. Enlist the help of your spouse and children. Children's letters that get to the heart of an issue are often very well received by editors.
Networking will strengthen a successful "Letters to the Editor" campaign. Local AFA affiliates, other groups, and churches can become a grassroots network of well-informed, Christ-loving, citizen writers who support and strengthen one another.
A Success Story
The elders of Grace Bible Church in Walpole, New Hampshire, grew tired of newspaper articles that lacked God's ethical viewpoint.
They initiated a "Letter to the Editor" Writing Team to address moral issues of the day - anti-Christian bias, pornography, abortion, homosexuality, value manipulation in the schools and school based health (sex) clinics, relativism in the courts, and more. The impact has been more significant than they could imagine. Nearly half of the congregation began writing and the number is increasing.
What would be an overwhelming task for one, has become possible through Christian fellowship, mutual encouragement and idea sharing.
Try these tips for more on effective letter writing.
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