{"id":16949,"date":"2026-03-10T13:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/a-shout-out-to-the-staff\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:02:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:02:42","slug":"a-shout-out-to-the-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/inspiring-stories\/people-helping-people\/a-shout-out-to-the-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shout-out to the Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the time of year when we count our blessings and I am getting to the age when I don\u2019t have enough fingers and toes to tally them all. This is also the time of year at Guideposts when we managers give our performance reviews to our employees, a good opportunity not only to evaluate the job someone is doing but also to thank them for doing it.<\/p>\n

And thankful I am. It takes the dedication of a lot of folks to put out our books, magazines and websites, to say nothing of our outreach programs and the thousands of volunteers who help us answer more than 850,000 prayer requests a year at OurPrayer<\/a>. Most of our employees work behind the scenes, from our customer service reps to our marketing people and the people in finance who make sure the numbers add up. For every one of us who writes a book or a blog or a column or an article in the magazine, there are scores of people whose names you never see on the masthead who help make that happen. To recoin a phrase, I didn\u2019t build this blog all by myself.<\/p>\n

No, I get a lot of help from people here at Guideposts who are uniquely dedicated to their jobs, because by doing their jobs they know they help inspire, reassure and deepen the faith of millions. If you\u2019d like to join me in thanking the employees of Guideposts, like this blog. And please join us in the Guideposts Thanksgiving Day of Prayer<\/a> this Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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