Devotional magazine redesigned

This fall, the devotional magazine Rejoice! launches a new design that features photographic images on the cover, a new logo, a slightly larger typeface, and several more pages for inspirational stories and poetry.

The shift coincides with the retirement of designer John Hiebert who designed Rejoice! covers since 1972, when the Mennonite Brethren, General Conference Mennonites and the Mennonite Church began cooperatively producing the magazine. The quarterly publication currently has a circulation of 14,000 in the United States and Canada (12,000 Mennonite Church and 2,000 Mennonite Brethren).

Rejoice’s new look was created by Merrill Miller of Scottdale, Pa., a house designer for Mennonite Publishing Network.

The added features for the fall issue include two “Divine Touch” stories – one about a father struggling to come to terms with his adult son’s doubts about faith, and the other about a woman experiencing God’s guidance in a vocational shift. The issue also features a poem reflecting on the terminal illness of a family member, and a poetic reflection on discipleship by Menno Simons.

Rejoice! is co-published by Faith and Life Resources, a division of Mennonite Publishing Network, and Kindred Productions, the publishing arm of the Mennonite Brethren churches.

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