Standard Publishing8805 Governor’s Hill Drive, Suite 400Cincinnati, OH 452491-800-543-1301www.standardpub.comwww.standardpub.com/writers

Thank you for your interest in writing for Standard Publishing! For more than 140 years, we have been serving the Christian community with products that have one purpose: bringing the Bible to life! At Standard Publishing we believe the Old and New Testaments comprise the infallible, divinely inspired Word of God. Therefore, we consider the entire Bible to be our statement of faith, and we seek to understand and apply its message. You can learn more about our company’s rich history, the core values we embrace, and the materials we publish at our Web site, www.standardpub.com.

In order to produce the wide variety of resources that we offer, we partner with many writers. This brochure offers basic information for those who would like to write for Standard Publishing. For complete information and writers’ guidelines, please visit www.standardpub.com/writers.

May God bless you as you write for Him!

Writing for Standard Publishing

ADULTS ADULTS

Please carefully study and follow our writers’ guidelines at www.standardpub.com/writers.

Please carefully study and follow our writers’ guidelines at www.standardpub.com/writers.

The LookouT® the lookout is a weekly magazine. It is designed

to provide Christians with true-to-the-Bible teaching and current information that will help them mature as believers, develop godly homes, and live as faithful witnesses of Christ. We cover a wide variety of topics—from individual discipleship to family concerns to social involvement. We value well-informed articles that offer lively and clear writing as well as strong application. We often address tough issues and seek to explore fresh ideas or recent developments affecting today’s Christians. We publish strictly according to our theme list.

ChrisTian sTandard® christian standard is a weekly

magazine for volunteer and paid leaders in local congregations, mission stations, and parachurch agencies of Christian churches and churches of Christ around the world. It informs them, challenges them, helps them do their jobs, allows them to learn what other leaders in this fellowship are doing, and provides a place for them to share their successes.

Program Books Every year, we produce three

all-new program books that are suitable for use by teens and adults: Church Programs for Special Days, Easter Programs for the Church, and Christmas Programs for the Church. People can use these books to plan holiday and seasonal worship services and programs for their churches. We purchase monologues, dramas, poems, skits, and more.

The products shown in this brochure are just a sampling of the many resources that Standard Publishing has to offer. Please visit our Web site, www.standardpub.com, to see our complete line.

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CHILDREN TEENS ADULTSChiLdren’s ProduCT

One of our goals in publishing children’s products is to effectively serve the needs of the church as a resource provider in the area of children’s ministry. We are interested in relevant resources from experienced children’s ministry practitioners. We will consider the following types of proposals:

• leadership resources • teaching helps • children’s classroom

resources • resources for the smaller

church • outreach

note: We develop children’s curriculum and VBS programs with in-house staff and assigned writers.

Program Books Every year, we produce two all-

new program books that are suitable for use by children: Easter Programs for Children and Christmas Programs for Children. People can use these books to plan holiday and seasonal worship services and programs for their churches. We purchase monologues, dramas, poems, skits, and more.

Teen ProduCTWe’re looking for materials

that are real, relevant, and relational as we seek to resource teens, young adults, and those who lead them. Real-world: What new trends are happening in the world of teens and young adults that need to be addressed now? Relevant: How do teens help each other with struggles, addictions, honesty, and vulnerability in small groups, discipleship groups, and one-on-one settings? Relational: Many of our materials speak to the need for one another, for conversation and accountability in a safe place.

enCounTerTm ENCOUNTER™—The Magazine is

an 8-page, full-color, weekly magazine for junior high and senior high students to encourage their relationships with Jesus. It is published quarterly and is designed to correlate with our Young Teen and High School curriculum. It is distributed mainly through churches and Christian bookstores. Adult writers may submit nonfiction and fiction. Teens may submit poetry, art, and testimonies.

aduLT ProduCTWe serve the church by providing resources for pastoral

leaders, ministry leaders, lay leaders, small group leaders, worship leaders, volunteers, and members of the body of Christ at all levels of spiritual growth. We are interested in relevant and unique church resources in various mediums. These include books, group member discussion guides, workbooks, journals, DVDs, etc.

We publish: • small group resources • worship resources • pastor and leader resources • women’s resources• men’s resources• seniors resources• specific programming helps for

smaller churches• outreach resources• missions resources• urban ministry resources • nonfiction books

seek® SEEK is a magazine created to

encourage adults in their walk with Jesus Christ. SEEK corresponds to the topics of our adult curriculum line and is designed to further apply these topics to everyday life.

Please carefully study and follow our writers’ guidelines at www.standardpub.com/writers.

Please carefully study and follow our writers’ guidelines at www.standardpub.com/writers.

Please carefully study and follow our writers’ guidelines at www.standardpub.com/writers.