News for children

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday September 8th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. Up next: news for children.

Several times in the last couple weeks, we’ve included parental warnings about stories with details too heavy for younger listeners. You might be wondering what options WORLD has for your kids. You know, news that informs, educates, and inspires in an age-appropriate manner?

EICHER: Well, WORLD has just what you’re looking for.

My colleague, Rebecca Cochrane, is managing editor of God's World News entering a new school year. So Rebecca, how many years is it now? I know it actually predates WORLD Magazine.

REBECCA COCHRANE: Yes, we are now in our 42nd year. It was founded in 1981.

EICHER: Well, hey, compliments to the chef on the redesign of your products and the new website. It looks terrific.

COCHRANE: Thank you. We're very pleased with it and think it's much easier to use than our older site.

EICHER: I think so too. Hey, I figure you may be talking to a listener with school-aged kids or a grandparent with school-aged grandkids who's never heard of God's World News. Talk to that person about what God's World News offers to students.

COCHRANE: Sure, well, we are a full range of children's publications, we actually have three different print publications, each with their own website. So we have age-appropriate content, beginning as young as three years of age. Our God's Big World publication is geared toward three to six year olds. So those are your beginning readers or pre readers, even the youngest ones who are just beginning to discover what God's world has to offer. Then we have our World Kids publication, which is selected and designed for children ages, about seven to 10. These are the ones who know a little bit about the world, but they need a lot of context. And they're eager to explore and find out more. And finally, we have our World Teen publication, which is for students who are about 11 to 14 years old. So our young teens and our tween agers, and its focus is taking them a little bit deeper, where they're beginning to ask questions and form opinions of their own. And we're helping them see the news again, through a biblical worldview, a biblical perspective. But prompting them to dig a little deeper and start to discern the why of things. Why is it important that I know about the world? Why is it important that this particular issue has an impact on anything in my life? And how is God at work in it even in some of those news stories that are a little more challenging and difficult to kind of unravel? see both sides or multiple sides of an issue. We help guide them through that with a gentle application of Scripture and a positive approach to everything that we do because we know who is in control.

EICHER: Amen. Well, Rebecca, you're now offering the most generous discounts we've ever offered on God's World News tell about how to take advantage of this really excellent limited time offer.

COCHRANE: Yes, we're really excited to be able to bring this sale to new members. It's the first time we've ever offered anything quite like this. Right now, a year subscription to our magazines is half off, that's 50% off our normal price. And that brings the cost down to just under $18 for an entire year, or a little less than $1.50 a month. And for that you will receive six print issues in the mail plus full access to our websites. On the website, our World Kids and World Teen levels get a new fresh news story every single day. You get all of our teacher resources, parent tips and guides and supplemental activities. We've got some videos on there. There are places where children can submit their own content, whether maybe they've illustrated a story or written a letter to the editor. And so anyone who wants to pick up this offer as a new member can just visit gwnews.com/podcast to get the 50% off price.

EICHER: Outstanding. Rebecca Cochran of God's World News. Thanks so much.

COCHRANE: Thank you, Nick.

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