Free and Low Cost Online Training: Editing

Punctuation, spelling, grammar, style, calculations, accuracy, tone – editors review all of these in the editing process. If you are learning to edit or want to refresh your skills, there are free and low cost courses for that!

Free Online Training: Writing

If you are your team are searching for training related to writing, consider taking a free course. Check out what Magazine Training International (MTI), Poynter Institute, and others have to offer.

Free Online Training: Worldview and Mission for Communicators

If you serve a mission agency in communications and marketing, it is critical for you to develop a strong sense of how a Christian worldview and God’s Mission apply to your work. Both shape the way you share the message of your organization with the public. Two webinars available on YouTube (and posted here) will challenge you in these areas.

Free Online Training: Journalism Basics

Telling journalistic stories is a critical way that organizational communicators, like you, can share about your organization’s cause. To do that well, you need to cultivate the same skills as a good journalist: knowing how to discover and develop a story, cultivate sources, research, and conduct meaningful interviews. I’ve compiled a list of several online courses that can help you in all of these areas.

Webinar – Communications and the Mission of God

How do we align organizational communications with God’s purposes? In this webinar, Dawn Kruger and Florence Wamae provide a brief introduction to missiology and then connect it with how this can be applied to communications and marketing in a mission organizational context.

Webinar – A Diverse Audience in a Changing World

The first guest presented webinar for missions communicators is now available here and on the le Motif YouTube channel. This 30 minute webinar was presented by Florence Wamae on “A Diverse Audience in a Changing World.”

Telling Your Network Story – Now an E-Book!

The content from May 2020’s webinar and July 2020’s e-course is now in an e-book! If you are a part of a ministry network and want to learn how you can more effectively share the story of your network and its cause, this e-book will be a valuable tool for you. 

LeMotif Resources on Sale Through 15 January 2020

A growing collection of downloadable resources is available on LeMotif’s shop, and the price is reduced to just 95 cents through 15 January 2020.

Simplicity Gone Astray

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.