We receive quite a number of emails from our listeners around the world each week. These are such a source of encouragement and are made possible by your donations. Here are two from last month...

For years I've listened to your music during challenging times. Lately I've been sick with high blood pressure and erratic heart rate. I put on Allworship.com which streams true worship songs. These songs have ministered to my soul and helped me make it through the day. Be it emotional pain or physical pain, your music ministry has lifted my soul and guided me to worship God in good times and in bad times. I thank God and thank you for this ministry.

Thank you for this awesome message. We are blessed as I send this out to around a hundred other believers around the world. Praise God for what you people do.

Whenever someone makes a donation to our ministry, we give them a token of our appreciation: the ability to listen to our premium stream. Currently, the only difference between our standard and premium stream is the much higher sound quality. One of the improvements we are working on that you'll see in the next month is that the premium stream will eliminate all talking, so after you log on to listen, you will just hear MUSIC! The programming will flow from one great song to another, with no interruptions. We believe that will enhance your listening and worship experience.

As you know, we send out a weekly inspirational story to anyone who wishes to receive it. We also post the story on our blog where readers can comment on it or even share it on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.

Typically, a story will get about eight comments, and around 100 people will share it via some form of social media.

In December of 2013, we posted a story called "My First Christmas in Heaven", a touching poem about a loved one that has passed away and is spending the first Christmas in heaven. When it was first posted, it got the typical response.

For some reason, it caught fire on social media in December 2014. People started sharing it with their friends, and it was all linked to our AllWorship blog. We started receiving some of the most touching, heartfelt comments, such as: 

This was a very fitting poem to share with my Mom Brothers and sisters, and the rest of our Family. We lost my Dad this past March, there isn’t a day that goes by that our hearts don’t ache from missing him.

Our son, Christopher, (meaning Christ-bearer) died a year ago in September. He was 47. Thank you for sharing this. I could “hear” him speaking. This is very helpful as that loss will never go away.

The poem brought thousands upon thousands of people to our website for the first time. In fact, it led to the highest traffic we have ever experienced in a week, and even got 96,000 "likes" on Facebook in December 2014.

We didn't think it could get any better. It did.

In December 2015, people once again started sharing the poem and linking it to our blog. The two weeks leading up to Christmas became record traffic for us once again, bringing nearly six times the average traffic to AllWorship during this time. There are now 130 personal comments, and nearly 388,000 people have "liked" the poem on AllWorship. So many new people have been exposed to the free Christian music on AllWorship because of this social media phenomenon, and our ministry has been blessed beyond measure.