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How about this?

Last week we told you about our article compilation CDs selling like hot cakes and asked where did that expression come from, anyway? Well, of course Creator Leadership Network members to the rescue...within an hour, I got the following information from John Jarvis:
SELL LIKE HOT CAKES - "Hot cakes cooked in bear grease or pork lard were popular from earliest times in American. First made of cornmeal, the griddle cakes or pancakes were of course best when served piping hot and were often sold at church benefits, fairs, and other functions. So popular were they that by the beginning of the 19th century 'to sell like hot cakes' was a familiar expression for anything that sold very quickly effortlessly, and in quantity." From "Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins" by Robert Hendrickson

How about that?

● Our article compilation CDs are still selling like hot cakes. If you are new to Monday Morning Email, or didn't get it the first time...we've put together 3 collections of back articles in pdf format on CD Rom. The Choir and Leadership collections ($19.95 each) contain over 40 articles, while the Worship collection ($24.95) contains 60 articles. In essence, these collections are the "cream of the crop" from our knowledge base, and you can have them for less than 50 cents per article, post paid in the US. Easy to get, great content, and inexpensive...how can you lose?

Need more information? Here's a small sampling of titles...

● Choir: 101 Great Choir Ideas/The Incarnational Work of the Adult Choir/Choir Committment: The "Real" Cost/Letter to the Singer in the 4th Row/Understanding Your Head Voice
● Leadership: Creating and Sustaining Healthy Teams on a Church Staff/Identifying Tensions over Musical Style/Ministry and Women: Ambassadors of the Spirit/Pastors and Church Musicians/The Church Musician as Transformational Leader
● Worship: A Theology of Worship/Don't Plan a Service...Create a Moment/Eight Common Elements of Worship Renewal/The Worship Driven Church/Worship Planning: What is the Foundation?  

You can order them by clicking here and looking in the left hand column for "Featured Products."

● Remember that there is a Creator Leadership Network group on facebook. It is designed to allow us to grow the peer-to-peer helping aspect of CLN that we planned for at the outset of the new Creator website. Got a ministry, musical, or leadership question? Join the group and let us know what you need.
You can find the CLN group at
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=56627023585


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● As I mentioned last week, I'm now tweeting as a member of Twitter...and you can follow me at https://twitter.com/vernsanders

But that's not why you're here...so, without further ado...

● It is Bob Burroughs week at MME, and he once again has an incredible amount of information packed into this week's edition. I particularly like the Stress Reduction Kit that Bob found and has made available to you for FREE! Just click here to read this week's MME:

This week, practice worship leadership with your choir (or other musical ensemble), and please tell your friends and colleagues about Creator and MME too.

Blessings,

Vern Sanders
Publisher
Creator Magazine
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