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what interesting facts I could come up with.

Since the Zine started in November ’96, only two monthly issues have been missed—July editions in ’99 and ’01. The

average Zine length has been 22 A4 pages. Over 1,200 A4 Zine pages were sent out to the Family in the over four years

that the Zine has been going, ending with this 56th edition in August 2001.

David Komic became an integral part of the Zine team with FZ 012, and has contributed 91 pages of Zinetoons, an

average of two pages per issue. He did his first and only cover for FZ 054, which was called

“The Mind of a Missionary.” God bless you, David, the Zine wouldn’t have been the same

without your contributions.In February 1998, FZ 016 welcomed the introduction of color in the layout of the Zine,

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So this is our farewell, a heartfelt goodbye. And do remember to continue to send in anything that would’ve

classified as Zine material to our address at [email protected], as there will be future use for it.

This concluding Zine features a signature page from each person presently on the Zine team. The following

pages offer a little insight into how things have worked with the Zine over the past two years, and will help you get

to know a bit about those who have worked on this pub. Also, not to forget Bethy’s historical recount of the Zine.

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Keith: I’d say it’s like a tornado! Once we haveprayer and start discussion, things start tomove around and ideas surface. The initialideas spark other ideas and as we get closerand closer to the idea we want to use we reachthe center, then BAM, we hit on the idea andit goes down the cone and hits the mark! We’reall pretty lively and contribute freely so some-times it can be somewhat turbulent, but thegoal is to come up with the best idea we canget, so I think we’ve all learned to “keep cir-cling” till we hit our goal. Our meetings arelots of fun as well as work; I’m going to missthem.

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Keith: Well, to properly explain the single most frustrating thing for me, I’ll have to go back about a year or so. We had this machine; it wassupposed to be a printer, but it often turned out to be a paper “scruncher.” You’d send it the job and it’d spit out a wrinkled, distorted,half-printed piece of paper. It was the source of many discussions, trying to find ways to convert the printer so print jobs wouldactually exit in a usable format, one representing the job you had on screen. Okay, so the Zine was zany but you should haveseen our printer’s version. We pretty much vetoed it every time!

After many long and agonizing hours of cleaning, testing, hanging the printer from various tall objects (not really),when our knees resembled those of Catholic pilgrims, and our minds that of a Gordian knot, God came through for

us! He zapped the printer and melted it to a smoldering heap of sparking wires and goopy plastic! Oh,believe me, we wish! But His ways are higher than ours and in His infinite wisdom (knowing that

such a lightning bolt’s effects would have the “Endangered Printer” people up in arms, or intrees, or knee deep in some Amazon jungle looking for survivors) He supplied a

new printer! And believe you me, never has a printer received so much loveand appreciation! And whaddaya know, it outputs straight, flat pa-

per! How do they come up with these things?Okay, so the above is slightly exaggerated(though not much), but to set the Printer Pres-

ervation Society at ease, no printerswere harmed in the making

of the Zine.

C a i t l y n :One wordcomes to mindabout Zine meetings …informal! We always startin prayer and calmness, but noone remembers to raise their handafter that, and we all just talk!Chandra and Beth usually spendsome time getting Piper andLance to quiet down, and quitcracking jokes. They are greatcomedians (especially whenthey get together) and can getus VERY sidetracked. Wedo get down to business,though, and hash outcover ideas and try tonarrow it down to one ortwo points that we allagree on and can thenpray about, thoughit’s usually not justone or two ques-tions. Then we tryto figure out whogets whichpages, divvyup the neces-sary ques-tions to askthe Lord,and thenget towork.

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Evye: Being the impatient get-it-all-done-and-perfect-now typeperson, I definitely had my moments of frustration with our lastprinter. As Keith mentioned above, our dear, dear printer had amind of its own and pulled the quirkiest of stunts on us, often atthe most crucial of times. It was so nice to get a new one.

Seeing as we’re a pubs production unit, there’s always some-one printing something, and even now with our new printer, ourtoner cartridge is often low on toner, or it starts putting streaksacross the page because we’re trying to get the most out of thetoner we can. So when I go to pick up my print job, to see whatmy picture will look like printed out (you know like when I need tosee if something will print out too lightly, or be too dark, and whatI need to fix on it, etc.), to see these streaks of blank spaceacross my page has made me kind of go bonkers at times.

But hey, I’ve realized that it’s just one of those things that willhappen when the printer is printing all day long pretty much sevendays a week. It’s not like we’re too lazy to change the cartridges.We’re just trying to be frugal and use that cartridge till it hasreally died the death.

Most frustrating instances or things we had to deal withindividually or as a team while creating the Zine?

Keith: Staring at a blank page and REALLY praying! Sometimes a

certain concept will stand out from the text and that will inspire the

page layout. Other times I’ll have a past idea that I’d like to do but

haven’t had a chance to do yet, and it’ll go in sync with the text I have

to work with, so then I’ll try it out. My pages often end up quite different

from my original idea. Things sometimes just click (must be on those

days where the blank page stares back at me and makes me real

desperate) and the idea flows and I can really feel the anointing.

Almost anything can spark an idea of sorts if you’re open to it—a

bottle label, a newspaper, a magazine, an advertisement, a movie, a

picture—you name it. Ultimately, though, it’s the Lord Who gives the

idea and helps bring it through to completion, but the above are a few

channels He uses. We also bounce ideas off each other and that helps

to improve the original concepts.

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Bethy: Once I lost two pages of work because my computer bombed andI hadn’t backed up that day’s work yet. It wasn’t so bad because I had aprintout of the pages I had done, so I was able to re-do it. Another time, Ialmost lost two weeks of layout work! I had been working on Zine layout fortwo weeks, and had done twelve pages of work. I needed a bigger hard drive,but I asked the computer guy if he could wait till I was done with my Zine workbefore switching my hard drive. So when I was done, he switched things around.

I copied over all my work and checked everything and it all seemed fine, sohe went off with the hard drive. The next morning I opened the file where all mywork was supposed to be, and it was completely blank. For some reason the com-puter saved the work to a different part of the hard drive than where I usually storedmy work, so when I copied everything, that didn’t copy. It was a terrible feeling!

I went sobbing to Spiro “My work is gone! It’s not there! Everything’s blank.” SinceI was reduced to a puddle of tears and not much help to anyone, Spiro went and triedto find out if my hard drive had been reformatted yet, and thankfully it hadn’t! We wereable to get all my work back and I was a very happy girl.

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Caitlyn: I always try to keep my eyes open for new concepts whenever I go anywhere,

and I try to keep a notepad and pen in my purse to catch it. Then when I sit down to start

a project, I pray and ask the Lord to give me a rough sketch for the pages before I start

working on them, combining different ideas I’ve picked up, plus some additional imagi-

nation. That’s generally how it works.

Sometimes I also get ideas from odd places like an advertisement, like a billboard

ad on the street, etc. Once I even got a design idea off a shoebox that my boyfriend had

just thrown in the trash. The logo design was exactly what was needed on the page I

was working on.

Bethy: Whenever I sat down to do layout on a Zine page, sitting in front of a blank

screen and trying to come up with a new layout idea was always the most difficult part.

Especially on a day when I wasn’t feeling creative, or I wanted to be anywhere else but

my desk, coming up with layout ideas.

Starting the page or idea was always the most difficult, but once I got started, or

received an idea in prophecy and got going, then would happen what I called “the preacher

came.” I’d get all inspired and really focus on the page and be able to come up with

something good. And I knew it was the Lord! Sometimes I’d get layout ideas from weird

places like the font or style or design of movie credits. Watching a movie with a bunch

of layout people in the Home can be a peculiar experience.

“Shall we forward the beginning credits?” someone asks.

“NOOO! Look at that cool font! I wonder how they did that? Interesting design. Nice

choice of color. Check out the kerning. Hmm … very nice!”

Evye: It’s different every time. Usually (and this is a confession), I wait till the last

minute, like right before I need to begin work on a picture. Then to get the idea I get

down on my prayer bones in hopes of a revelation. That happens sometimes, but chances

are that the Lord will lead me to see something that inspires me, or He leads me to view

a style of art that I’d like to try, and I work around that.

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monthly schedule so that we have enough time slotted for everything. Weslot the Zine layout for roughly two weeks out of the month, for the most part,

though, it often goes to just one week when we have a lot of Home duties, or otherthings come up. It’s probably the pub that we take the most time doing, at least for me.

Other simpler pubs I work on, layout may take only a day or two.

Keith: That really depends on how many pages I have to do. Looking back over theZine since I joined the team, I’ve done an average of 4.5 (and a billion decimals)pages per Zine. Sometimes more, sometimes less, depending on my workload at the

time, or others’ workloads, which could bring up my page count for the month. Itpretty much takes me one afternoon or morning to do two pages, but some-

times when a page is particularly difficult it takes longer.

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Chandra: I don’t know if I could ever pin down the precise amount of time ittakes to get the text and content together. Particular months we may get well-refined articles and photos, limiting the amount of time I have to spend working on it,while other months a particular article could’ve taken ages to get through the pro-cess. This is mostly due to back and forth communication with the author, the needfor photos or artwork, and the likes.

On average, I’d say a single Zine text will take me between four to eight weeks topush through from start to finish, starting with getting the material together andediting it, until the final text file for the HomeARC. Even then, there are usuallythings that come up along the way that I have to pray and counsel about,which can extend the amount of work.

Don’t get me wrong; it’s not that I spend all those weeks withpages of Zine text as the décor of my cubicle; that’s just the en-tire time it’s in my court for. Yup, it’s a long time, though!

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After we lay out our pages and combinethem into one file (which can be complicated),the layout gets approved and the text proofread.The “pipeliner,” then has the job of putting in thefinishing touches and readying it for the NPCs.It’s a big job! God bless, Piper and Lance, whohave been doing this job. I really admire them!(I’ve never pipelined the Zine.)

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Evye: I’d say pretty okay. On a scale of one to ten, ten being thebest, we work on level nine, I think. That’s pretty good!

Chandra: Overall, I’d say we work very well together, though I don’tdeny that we have had our conflicts. Being the only one on the teamdealing with text and the coordination of the contents—e.g., photos, art-work, etc.—I admit to having my clashes with layout, the rift between textand graphics or 3D art, the amount of photos needed or the relevancy ofart for an article, and most disputed of all—the word count.

Layout and text are so different, yet it’s so essential for the two to blendtogether, in order to make the pages what they need to be. There were times when this became a point of conflict, mostly between Piper and me, asthe two of us are quite opinionated.

There’s one instance that comes to mind specifically and that was when we were working on FZ 045. At the time things were pretty hectic in ourHome and we were all feeling the pressure of additional work, which had us on edge, somewhat. When I got the laid out version to check the text on,something about the layout didn’t appeal to me, and because I am not a layout person, I took this lack of appeal (which had rapidly turned tofrustration) out on the text. LHM!

My viewpoint at the time was that as the text person, and content coordinator, I will at times spend up to six months gathering all necessarymaterial for an article, with countless back and forth communications with the person who wrote the article, numerous prophecies regarding it, and alot of energy spent. So if after all that work, the layout does not grab me, I can tend to get frustrated and want to mutilate the text, because I can’t doanything about the layout.

Back to the scenario of FZ 045; Piper’s pages weren’t the ones that I was bothered with, but because he was pipelining the Zine at the time, itmeant that whatever changes I made in the text he’d have to put them in manually. Not a very pleasant job, poor guy! There were more red marks onthat page than any pipeliner could every wish for. Inevitably, Piper was not enthralled about the amount of corrections I’d marked throughout the Zine;some were necessary, but others, Lord help me, were marked simply out of frustration.

Piper and I had had other conflicts at the time, and this incident erupted whatever it was that had been simmering underneath. It was essential thatthe two of us work together well, but there were times when I admit every time he asked me something in regards to the Zine text, I would suppressa lamenting sigh. The Lord often uses a specific incident that forces us to clear up a problem that has been subtly growing below the surface, andthat’s what that particular Zine edition brought to pass.

Bethy having heard both our sides of the scenario, suggested that we talk things through and resolve our differences. I wasn’t thrilled about theidea, but knew she had a point. If we were to work together as the team the Lord needed us to be, we’d have to come to terms with our differences andfind a solution.

It so happened that Piper, two other people and myself would be taking the weekend off, away from the Home. In our absence, we took the timeto talk things over and rectify our conflicts. I don’t do so well in those particular situations, but it was necessary to our working relationship, and ourcontinuance as a team. Thank the Lord, our problems were resolved, because we were finally able to get the other’s perspective and comprehend theother’s mode of operation, likes, dislikes and all the essentials that go towards harmoniously working together.

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Four years, nine months (that’s counting

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It’s almost impossible to pick my favorite of

the pages I laid out. You put a lot of effort into

each page, and each one (hopefully) comes

out with some quality that you especially like

or are happy with. In general, I feel my best

work was between issues 28-38. To the left are

thumbnails of a few of my favorite pages.

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I always wanted to do an issue in full color,

with big photos (I’m into photos, as

photography is somewhat of a hobby), and

with nice glossy, color paper. I always

dreamed of the day we might be able to do

that. You never know, some day we may be

able to publish that kind of thing in the Family,

though I guess it won’t be the Zine!

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the relative newcomer to the Zine depart-ment. I started working on Zine layout inthe beginning half of 2000, with FZ 043,so I have worked on thirteen issues alto-gether. Of those issues I’ve done about40 pages, including two covers.—Not toomany compared to those who’ve workedon the Zine for several years now.

For a long time I pleaded my way outof doing the long articles. It’s only beenwith the last three issues that I’ve donethe feature articles, which have rangedfrom six to twelve pages long. The fea-ture article “Embrace of Africa” (FZ 054),was the biggest challenge yet, but I prayeddesperately and the Lord came throughwith some good ideas. PTL!

When it comes to layout, I’d have tosay that I have the most trouble with mycolors. (Everyone snickers.) They knowhow I love to try different and unusualcolors with my pages, but that can createbig problems. It’s complicated to explain,but when you make a PDF (for the Webversion) the color conversion is usuallywaaaay off! For example, what might lookto me like electric blue while I’m workingon a page turns out a very dull purpleafter it’s been processed to PDF format.

My arch-nemesis is the color rust. It’sa joke around here, because everyoneknows how I love to use it, but it alwayscomes out either pink or orange, andthere’s nothing to be done about it. Poor

Lance worked for hours trying to help correct the colorson my cover for FZ 051, but to no avail. In the end my“masterpiece” was a peachy orange, sob! Believe me, itlooked much better on my computer.

When I look over past Zines, it’s hard to pin down a“most favorite” as far as layout goes. I enjoyed a lot of thework done by Spiro and Beth in the some of the “mid-era”issues. One of my favorite covers is “My soul is escaped asa bird” (FZ 030), with the eagle flying over the barbedwire; it was done with a very modern “grunge-style” lay-out.—One of my favorites!

The pages that I’m happiest with of my own work arethe covers of FZ 051 and FZ 056, and the article in FZ052 entitled “Our Different Paths.”

My least favorite are some of the first pages I workedon. Being that I work with all boys, my style at first reallystruck on the feminine side, and it often clashed with thepages they did. I started off with a bang with what the boystermed the “Care Bear” pages in FZ 045. They were verypink and flowery. It was a girly story, but I think I wentoverboard. The guys all had near heart attacks! � They wereencouraging anyway.

In truth, I’m not that sad to see the Zine end. Is thatterrible? Yikes! No really, it’s just that I know that it’ll bemaking room for new pubs, which is really exciting.

From a more radical angle, Zine layout has always poseda real challenge to me. Before I came, I loved to read theZine, and it looked like a lot of fun to layout, but I foundthat it’s really a lot of hard work, and takes a lot of inspi-ration and desperate prayer. So in a way, it’s a relief to nothave to do it anymore, but at the same time, challengeshelp us grow, and I definitely wouldn’t have learned howto work with certain programs, if I hadn’t gone throughsome of those hair-pulling experiences!

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I never imagined that I’d one day be staringat pages of testimonies in the hopes of put-ting them together to form a Zine.

I had no clue as to what I’d be doingwhen I came to WS. Editing and text workwere certainly not the jobs I’d considered oreven assumed to remotely be my forte. Gram-mar and punctuation rules were vague in mymind; I confess that I don’t recall learningthem in school, ever! Mum, forgive me!

Learning to work with the rest of theteam was probably the best part about theZine. Whether it was our authentic Zine meet-ings (now we have to find a new excuse tolounge around in the living room under theguise of work!) ;-) the entertainment and noiselisted under Zine brainstorming and idea toss-ing; the printer frustrations, which I got a greatview of, seeing as the printer table stood onlytwo strides from my cubicle. There was Piper’sbrilliant idea of transforming the crumpled andtoner-smudged Zine printer rejects into snow-flakes for Christmas; or the days when Lancewould take to origami creations while he was

Name: Chandra

Age: 21. (Coincidentally,Lance and I have thesame birthday. I alwayswanted someone towish me a happy birth-day, and to be able to re-spond with, “You too!”)

(Note: As far as Caitlynand my bra sizes go,we’ll confirm that an-other time with morespecifics … if only therewere another Zine to doit in. Alas!)

waiting for his print job. Those little eventsadded up into making our department a joyto be a part of.

I remember the times when getting theZine off at the end of the month called for acelebration. It was usually around the 25th ofthe month and we’d get together in our base-ment-converted-office-area to play games, sitaround and chill. I think those instances hada hand in melding us as a team—the timeaway from work, yet we were still a team.

Eventually it got to the point where weworked so well as a team, that we were calledon to do other jobs together. And, like Bethymentioned in her article, working on the Zinedefinitely did teach us a lot, opening up newdoors for a variety of work ventures. The Zinewas the stepping-stone that helped us all tomove into bigger jobs and more responsibility.

Sometimes I think back on the dayswhen the Zine was my sole job, it seemed totake up all my time, but I guess it’s relativethat as you get accustomed to a job your pro-ductivity capacity expands. During my first

two months, I admit that I was horribly petri-fied, thinking that I would never be able to dothe job assigned to me. I suffered several panicattacks in those first months; now it’s almostcomical to think back on that initial time.Those inner freak-outs did serve to set me onthe right path, as they forced me to get des-perate with the Lord.

I was very happy when Caitlyn arrived,because it helped to even out what was thena pretty male-dominate team. Not that I hadproblems with Lance, Keith and Piper, butsometimes I needed a fellow female perspec-tive on things. Caitlyn and I also started work-ing on other projects together. In our workingtogether, though, I honestly have no idea whenthe determining of bra sizes came into thefocus. �

My favorite part of working on the Zinewas doing interviews. Of course, I wasn’t everable to do them in person; that would’ve beena dream! It’s funny to remember where inter-view ideas came from. “Sweet Taste of India,”

in FZ 051, came to life when we were watch-ing a video of that specific Home in India,and heard about their Activated push and allthat they were involved in. The most com-mon exclamation throughout the viewing was,“We have to do an interview with them! Thisis so inspiring!” It took some time to make ithappen.—I think it was almost six monthsfrom the initial idea until it came out in print,but it was well worth it.

Thinking about it, the hardest part forme about seeing the Zine end, is that it bringsan era to an end. However, whenever some-thing comes to an end, there’s usually some-thing else to take its place. I love new chal-lenges, and the end of this magazine offersnew opportunities for me. I’ll now be gettingmore involved in kids’ pubs, as well as con-tributing towards the upcoming comic mag.

I’ll conclude this page with a sincerethank you to all of you who have been writ-ing in and sending stuff in over past years.It’s been great hearing from you!

was trying to remember where I was when the first Zinecame out … certainly not in WS! I was actually on a far-flung mission field, truly roughing it out, and separatedfrom civilization, or so it seemed.

“ ”I remember the times when getting the Zine offat the end of the month called for a celebration.

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become much more aware that with a good balance betweenwork, spending time with the Lord, and also time to P.A.R.T.Y, I canavoid that crash and burn syndrome that I always thought was justa part of being young and being me.

For as long as I have worked on the Zine, I’d haveto say that it’s been a real key inkeeping me desperate and de-pendant on the Lord. I am a real

run-by-inspiration/quit-functioning-on-lack-of-inspiration typeof person. Before

doing artwork for the Zine I wouldn’thave considered myself an artist. I was

in fact a text person/editor. When the formerZine artists moved on to other things, there was ahuge hole for artwork, and the Lord indicated thatI was the one to fill that spot. When it waspresented to me, it was scary at first to imag-ine becoming an artist. But I’ve had a lot offun along the way, learned many trial and errorlessons, and though to this very day, I stillfeel somewhat overwhelmed before each pic-ture I draw; it keeps me desperate,

Overall, watching the Lord work the wayHe has, has greatly increased my faith—not onlymy faith for myself, but my faith for others, too.It’s been cool seeing how the Lord can buildon something that you never knew was a tal-ent if you’re prepared to flow with His will!

I’m one of the coordinators for this new comicmag. I’ll also do artwork for other pubs from time totime. I also have a spirit storybook in the works andother spirit stories to finish up and illustrate. Believeme, there’s no shortage of work around here.

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I have mixed feelings about it. But mostly, I am happy be-cause now many of us Ziners and others will be putting our ener-gies towards new projects.

But yes, sniff, sniff, tooduhloo to our long time baby, theZine, which has grown up and left home. It’s been fun!

Favorite? I don’t know. However, Iliked anything by David Komic! He’s theking of comics, big time!Thank you, thank you, thankyou, DK! It’s been a privi-lege working with you!

A column I liked was the oneSpiro did way back with the littlefunny looking guy, called “The YoungMan and the CEE” in FZ 016.

It’s impossible to give a listing of what I do everyday, as most of it is very tedious, details, filing work,planning, coordinating art for the pubs with the artists onthe field, etc. I also do a lot of touch-up work for art thatcomes in that needs cleaning up, or that somehow needsto be changed in order to print better. Those are just afew things I do every day.

I have a hard time knowing when to quit workand develop any kind of private life. The Lord’sshown me recently that I need to make theeffort to spend time with humanoids. It’s notlike the others and I don’t click; we do—and they rock, but alas, I am patheticallyshy.

I also tend to take on moreprojects than I can devote suffi-cient time to. I have a difficult timesaying no to work, because the factof the matter is I am a workaholic—now a recovering one.—Lately I’ve

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