Dear Readers:
As we roll into the summer I wanted to provide a couple of updates and make a few requests.
First thing I wanted to address was my newsletters. Many people have been asking me why they are not getting email updates from me anymore, or those who recently signed up are asking if I am providing email updates when I make posts. For this I wanted to clarify and announce that from now on I have two newsletters you can sign up for, one is a weekly free newsletter and one is for paid members that is sent out daily. Paid members have been already getting the daily email newsletter, which will soon be getting an upgrade to include more offerings besides just my daily postings. The free newsletter I have neglected during the transition to the daily newsletter, but from now on I will be emailing a weekly newsletter for free which you can sign up for on my websites and will be different from the daily newsletter. I expect the free newsletter to be emailed once a week every Saturday beginning this June.
Secondly, it has come to my attention that some of you who ordered the booklet by Righteous Alexei Mechev which I offered and you purchased a few months back was never received. I sent out less than 200 of my 500 copies and believed I had completed all the orders, but apparently some orders never showed up on my end even though the payments were fully processed. It has taken me a few weeks to look into this and finally found out the answer, which is complicated to summarize, but the error had to do with the check out link I had used that did not properly indicate orders were made on my end. Till this day I cannot access the information (such as the address of someone who made an order) for these orders unless I manually type in the name of the person who ordered. So I am asking if you did order a booklet, please send me an email to mystagogy1@gmail.com which I set up to specifically address this issue and get all the orders out. I cannot send out these orders unless you contact me and send me your name to look up your order manually. I apologize for the delay and inconvenience, but assure everyone you will soon get your orders as long as you contact me.
Thirdly, despite the setback with some of the booklet orders, I do regret publicly offering them the way I did, which as you recall was done in haste to make up for a loss due to the person who originally commissioned the order for 500 booklets but had a medical issue that prevented him from paying and fulfilling the order. Many of you came through to help me make up for my loss, but I was in no way prepared to deal with hundreds of people and orders when I live a very busy life and work a fulltime job, which is why I had to put an end to selling them despite my desperation to get rid of them. Then when you have a setback like I described above and can't fulfill the orders, it just causes bigger problems that I need to focus on and fix. However, I was impressed that there was so much interest in this booklet by a relatively unknown author, and it made me consider after several requests to offer similar booklets in the future. It was even suggested to me to offer a booklet once a month or bi-monthly to help support my ministry, which I would love to do if I could. I am considering how to make a project like this feasible.
Lastly, as a personal request, due to some recent major financial setbacks of my own (besides the booklet issue), I wanted to appeal to your generosity to consider making a contribution to this ministry to help me continue to do what I do, if you find any benefit in what I am doing. Without your financial support, I would not be able to do anything. And with my recent financial setbacks it requires me to work more to make up for my losses, and in the summer months this is especially difficult because it is my slow season businesswise. This would dramatically decrease the time I can offer to the work of this ministry. This past year I had made a few requests to help a woman in crisis that was generously fulfilled by my readers, which made me very happy, but being such a small ministry it is unfortunate that when I do things like that it hurts me personally on a financial level and could jeopardize all my work for the Mystagogy Resource Center, which means I have to rely on my readers even more. By sending a financial gift to the Mystagogy Resource Center, you will also be qualified to be subscribed to my daily newsletter, for which I ask at least either a monthly subscription of $5 (Paypal or Patreon) or annual subscription of $60.
As I have done in the past, I will set a goal for $3500 which I will update daily towards the top of my main website page.
Thank you and have a wonderful summer!
John Sanidopoulos
As we roll into the summer I wanted to provide a couple of updates and make a few requests.
First thing I wanted to address was my newsletters. Many people have been asking me why they are not getting email updates from me anymore, or those who recently signed up are asking if I am providing email updates when I make posts. For this I wanted to clarify and announce that from now on I have two newsletters you can sign up for, one is a weekly free newsletter and one is for paid members that is sent out daily. Paid members have been already getting the daily email newsletter, which will soon be getting an upgrade to include more offerings besides just my daily postings. The free newsletter I have neglected during the transition to the daily newsletter, but from now on I will be emailing a weekly newsletter for free which you can sign up for on my websites and will be different from the daily newsletter. I expect the free newsletter to be emailed once a week every Saturday beginning this June.
Secondly, it has come to my attention that some of you who ordered the booklet by Righteous Alexei Mechev which I offered and you purchased a few months back was never received. I sent out less than 200 of my 500 copies and believed I had completed all the orders, but apparently some orders never showed up on my end even though the payments were fully processed. It has taken me a few weeks to look into this and finally found out the answer, which is complicated to summarize, but the error had to do with the check out link I had used that did not properly indicate orders were made on my end. Till this day I cannot access the information (such as the address of someone who made an order) for these orders unless I manually type in the name of the person who ordered. So I am asking if you did order a booklet, please send me an email to mystagogy1@gmail.com which I set up to specifically address this issue and get all the orders out. I cannot send out these orders unless you contact me and send me your name to look up your order manually. I apologize for the delay and inconvenience, but assure everyone you will soon get your orders as long as you contact me.
Thirdly, despite the setback with some of the booklet orders, I do regret publicly offering them the way I did, which as you recall was done in haste to make up for a loss due to the person who originally commissioned the order for 500 booklets but had a medical issue that prevented him from paying and fulfilling the order. Many of you came through to help me make up for my loss, but I was in no way prepared to deal with hundreds of people and orders when I live a very busy life and work a fulltime job, which is why I had to put an end to selling them despite my desperation to get rid of them. Then when you have a setback like I described above and can't fulfill the orders, it just causes bigger problems that I need to focus on and fix. However, I was impressed that there was so much interest in this booklet by a relatively unknown author, and it made me consider after several requests to offer similar booklets in the future. It was even suggested to me to offer a booklet once a month or bi-monthly to help support my ministry, which I would love to do if I could. I am considering how to make a project like this feasible.
Lastly, as a personal request, due to some recent major financial setbacks of my own (besides the booklet issue), I wanted to appeal to your generosity to consider making a contribution to this ministry to help me continue to do what I do, if you find any benefit in what I am doing. Without your financial support, I would not be able to do anything. And with my recent financial setbacks it requires me to work more to make up for my losses, and in the summer months this is especially difficult because it is my slow season businesswise. This would dramatically decrease the time I can offer to the work of this ministry. This past year I had made a few requests to help a woman in crisis that was generously fulfilled by my readers, which made me very happy, but being such a small ministry it is unfortunate that when I do things like that it hurts me personally on a financial level and could jeopardize all my work for the Mystagogy Resource Center, which means I have to rely on my readers even more. By sending a financial gift to the Mystagogy Resource Center, you will also be qualified to be subscribed to my daily newsletter, for which I ask at least either a monthly subscription of $5 (Paypal or Patreon) or annual subscription of $60.
As I have done in the past, I will set a goal for $3500 which I will update daily towards the top of my main website page.
Thank you and have a wonderful summer!
John Sanidopoulos
