SUPPORT THE EFFECT

Greetings to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am Jon Gibson, station manager and on-air personality here at the Effect. I want to personally thank you for your kind and generous support because without it, the Effect could not stay on the air. Your partnership with us has helped to pay the bills on four full-power radio stations, 53 translators and the tower fees that go along with them. As partners, I need to share with you some struggles and challenges that we are facing with recent changes in the music industry that have really picked up steam in 2018.

The challenge is that the music industry is currently engaged in switching from physical CDs as their main way of distributing music, to focusing on online streaming. It has become increasingly difficult to obtain CDs for the E-Crew. This, of course, has concerned all of us at The Effect as we strive to provide the best appreciation gifts for you, our donors who keep us on the air.

So, with these things in mind, we are going to have to put the CDs on hold for a few months until we can figure out where we can fit in to this digital streaming movement. In the meantime, for the month of June, Capitol Records was willing to offer this special release of "NF - Perception" as our donor appreciation gift for the month of June. This CD was not available to us, but Capitol made an exception for us so we hope that you enjoy this special E-Crew CD. This will be the last E-Crew CD until further notice as we are going to put them on hold for a few months until we can figure out where or how we can fit into the digital streaming world.

For the month of August, we are sending you an E-Crew shirt. This shirt was exclusively designed just for you, our E-Crew donors. We are making available to you a new T-shirt every month, maybe throwing in a mug at some point, we’re not exactly sure, but we plan to have some fun with it and hope that you enjoy the appreciation gifts that we put together for you in the coming months.

Please keep us in prayer as we go through this new and challenging transitional period. I try always to remember to include you in my daily prayers and sometimes, I'll see a donation coming in through the office and I pray right on the spot for God to bless that person and that's the prayer I pray for you.

Please do not hesitate to share your concerns and ideas with me online at ecrew@effectradio.com or if you want to speak with me or pray about something, I'm always available to you here at the station in Twin Falls between the hours of 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM (MT). Just dial 208-733-3133 and ask for Jon Gibson. If I'm not here, ask Linda or Paula to make a note and leave a phone number and time you can be reached. If no one is here in reception, dial my extension 214 and leave me a message and a number and I will call you back. May the Lord bless you and keep you always.