Mitchell Solarek is NOT Tina Campbell’s Manager & More: My Interview With Mary Mary’s Tina Campbell

tina blackHello World,

When I began recapping this season of Mary Mary’s reality show on WEtv, I didn’t anticipate that I would get the opportunity to interview one of the stars of the show! And this season was an exciting one for good and bad reasons – from the drama that Mitch caused at Tina’s wedding, to the push and pull between the Marys about whether to pursue solo careers, to potential health scares…

Every week, I had questions about why they made certain decisions, and I was able to get my questions about this season and more answered from one of the Marys – Tina Campbell…Check out our interview…She’s a great talker so she had a lot to share šŸ™‚ Read and be blessed…

1. Congratulations on Season 4 of your reality show! One thing I noticed about several of the episodes this season is that you spent a lot of time testifying and Erica complained about that a lot. Looking back at those episodes, do you feel like you testified too much?

Absolutely not! I donā€™t. I cannot apologize for who I am or for how I am. If ever I am offensive or if ever I am mistaken, Iā€™m sorry for that. But I donā€™t apologize for testifying because there are a couple of things I realized.

In testifying, first of all, itā€™s therapeutic for me to remember where I was and to recognize where I am. It literally is. So itā€™s two part. I know that it was encouraging to people who watched it. Those people sat and watched my whole entire life fall apart one season ago and then theyā€™re watching me stand and continue to proclaim that God is good and that Iā€™m leaving the past and yesterday and Iā€™m taking the shackles off and Iā€™m praising God and Iā€™m going after my blessing and itā€™s still the God in me. When these people are seeing me proclaim it and theyā€™ve seen me broken and sad and angry last season, they are trying to figure out how did you get from there to here and why does it really seem honest?

So me testifying about how bad it was and how dark it got and how hopeless I was and now how hopeful I am because God rebuilt and restored it all. It lies that faith donā€™t work when it comes to real life situations because nobody really wants to talk about real life situations unless itā€™s behind closed doors so when these people see me talk candidly and honestly and they can see that Iā€™m exactly what Iā€™m saying, itā€™s not that they have to trust that itā€™s true. They saw me last season and they are watching me this season so when they hear how I got from there to here itā€™s encouraging to those too who are perhaps dealing with the challenges of infidelity or some other kind of betrayal or other kind of loss or brokenness so I know that itā€™s helpful from what people tell me and Iā€™m constantly inundated with.

Itā€™s helpful for people to hear that kind of honesty from a person of faith so openly because according to many, itā€™s what they never ever get. People always tell you what God can do for others but they donā€™t really tell you about them because that would be too embarrassing and I donā€™t have time to be embarrassed when God changed my horrible situation and made it wonderful. Iā€™m too busy being grateful.

2.Your wedding ceremony was really beautiful, but I had a hard time understanding why Mitchell Solarek was invited to your wedding. What made you invite him to your wedding, and do you regret that decision?

Um, a couple of things. Before all the TV show was created, Mitch was invited to my wedding because I did not hold any grudges or any hard feelings against him or anybody who may have offended me or whom I may have had professional differences with. And I also thought that many people who thought I had reason to still hold some kind of grudges or offenses, perhaps them experiencing not just must my forgiveness of my husband but my forgiveness of them could have been a great reflection of Godā€™s love, could have been a great reflection of Godā€™s grace and mercy that just doesnā€™t apply to the person that Iā€™m totally emotionally connected to but it applies to everybody.

I really wanted to just display Godā€™s forgiveness. I really wanted to just show that I donā€™t care what our professional differences were. Even though we had professional conflict, I see past that and see that youā€™re a human being that is caring and whatever are professional differences are, they donā€™t matter. Weā€™re past that. And I forgive everybody and every thing including you so letā€™s come and experience a day of love, a day of forgiveness, a day away from professional stuff and enjoy just personal life with everybody being forgiven with everybody moving forward and everybody literally having an opportunity to see that you can really let stuff go, move on and become better. Honestly, that was my entire intention.

It was not TV show motivated. I did not invite Mitch to my wedding for TV. Mitch was invited to my wedding, and my television show found out about it so they came and captured what they captured. It wasnā€™t a TV move. It literally was personal from my heart. I wanted certain people to see that there are no hard feelings. And just like how God repaired this, He can repair this even if we never ever work together again.

But I had no idea that that kind of foolishness took place at my wedding. But looking back in retrospect, had I known the offensive things that happened there would have happened, I would have never invited him for that. That day wasnā€™t a day of making TV. It wasnā€™t a day of being a clown. It wasnā€™t a day of being disrespectful or offensive. It was a day of complete and total forgiveness and love and acceptance of what was and embracing of what is and moving forward with nothing but hope and optimism and complete faith that everything was going to be better in the coming days, months and years.

It was not about what the TV show displayed. It was very unfortunate for me to find that out because I had no clue that that was happening on my wedding day or I would have shut it down immediately and went back to celebrating.

tina black and white3. Iā€™m a newlywed, well almost newlywed since I got married 2 years ago in August. Do you have any advice for newlyweds considering what you have been through?

Of course, Iā€™ve got a boatload of advice for newlyweds. First of all, marriage is not something… Unity and love and commitment and all of these things they donā€™t just happen on itā€™s own. Youā€™ve got to be an active participant in it. A lot of times in relationships, people just expect things to just happen.

My husband thought that all of his issues were just going to be fixed by marrying a beautiful woman that he thought really had it going on. And he thought that whatever my goodness was that I was going to bring to him was going to help change some of his issues. And I thought heā€™s just gonna love me, heā€™s just going to honor me, heā€™s just going to always understand me and whenever Iā€™m crazy heā€™s going to love all of that away and itā€™s just going to always be good. Heā€™s going to be my knight in shining armor and all of that stuff. A lot of people will tell you, Oh thatā€™s not what I thought, thatā€™s not what I meant, but they do. We all come in marriage with expectations. Otherwise we wouldnā€™t get married. But weā€™ve got to understand marriage is not a fairytale. Itā€™s real life. And they absolutely do work if you work them.

Whenever the couple is the center of the relationship, then you can depend on yourself for the best that it can get. But when God is the center of the relationship, you can depend on Godā€™s best. And His best far exceeds everything. Teddy and I were the center of our relationship. We and our stuff and what we thought we brought to the relationship and how valuable we thought that was, but once we took the value off of us and we placed the value on the God in us and God was the center of our relationship, thatā€™s when we found love again. And I can honestly say our relationship is better than it ever was, better than I could have ever imagined, better than what I prayed for.

Itā€™s two years after I found out what yā€™all seen on TV, and itā€™s blowing me away the relationship that we have. We are the best of friends and lovers. And that was not our story at first, but we had to go through and we had to commit to the contract. A lot of people donā€™t realize you signed up and put your name on the dotted line for better and worse, for richer and poorer, in sickness and health and the truth is in that day and in that moment, we only think about those positives. We donā€™t think that those negative possibilities will ever surface, and I believe they are written into the vows because you will have to deal with that. And once you get to that, you are better as a result. You donā€™t know what you really possess, unless youā€™re tried, unless youā€™re challenged.

4. One of the most important statements that Mitch made was in Episode 8 was when he said to you, ā€œYou are one of the biggest stars Iā€™ll ever meet in my life even though you donā€™t care about being a star.” Is that a true statement? Please explain your answer. Is he involved in your career now?

Iā€™m not fascinated with stardom. I enjoy regular way more than I enjoy the stardom. I like to be valuable to people when I donā€™t have everything in the world to offer them. Iā€™m very happy to have fans. Iā€™m very elated, and Iā€™m very appreciative of that, but itā€™s valuable to me when people like me and love me and think highly of me with and without accomplishments and thatā€™s probably why I have still have the same group of friends that were my friends when I was five years old, ten years old and 18 years old, the same people from my church, my original church that I grew up with. Iā€™m still close to all of them even though Iā€™ve been away from the church. I like people who liked me before, when I quote unquote wasnā€™t nothinā€™. And without accolades and all of that. They just think Iā€™m something because Iā€™m Thomiā€™s and Eddieā€™s daughter.

I derive my value from who I was before I got here. Because if accomplishments are the only things that make me who I am, because if you strip me of my accomplishments, what am I? Iā€™d like to think that my character, my integrity, the way I love, how kind I am to people, Iā€™d like to think that those are the things that define me so the people so that know me in that respect and value me in that respect, that matters more to me than the people who know me as a star. So stardom doesnā€™t fascinate me. If I was just a soccer mom or I was over the PTA, I would go just as hard doing what I do. Iā€™m just a very passionate person and whatever I do, I do it hard. I goes hard.

Stardom does not define me at all. I could have it or not. A GRAMMY is great, but Iā€™m fine without it. Selling millions of records. Itā€™s awesome. I would still think that I could sing and that God gave me a gift if Iā€™m singing at a convalescent hospital to old women. And Iā€™m so grateful for that because the ups and downs of the industry and peopleā€™s opinions and all of that, if that stuff made me, Iā€™d be broken already.

And Mitch?

He wasnā€™t involved with my career during the season, and heā€™s not involved in my career now. And the show was really just exploring the idea of him possibly being a part of my career.

5. Congratulations on your new book “I Need A Day To Pray” which is published by your company with your husband? What does Gee Tee Creative stand for?Are these journal entries? Who do you feel will benefit from this book?Ā Ā  Tina Campbell_Book Cover

Itā€™s just a play on our initials. And itā€™s a company of creative content from the book to the touring to the album and all of the creativity.

I donā€™t know if I can call it journal entries. I just called it a journal because whenever you are writing something and itā€™s not for a particular reason, I call it journaling. It wasnā€™t that I was quote unquote writing it to God. I was just writing out a prayer. Well, maybe I was writing to God. I was just writing out a prayer. I wanted to do better. I wanted to be better. I wanted to confess what God wanted for my life and not just what I wanted. But it didnā€™t have a date or a situation or a scenario. Whatever I was faced with or whatever I was dealing with in my life, most of the time I was handling it wrong. But I found the way I should have thought or what I should have said, the way I should have handled it, the perspective I should have had, Iā€™d go find it in the Bible and I would craft a prayer around that and basically thatā€™s how this book came about from all aspects of my existence.

And I began to continue to add to this book and pray. And I started realizing that what I was praying about was starting to come true. It was starting to manifest in my life so I kept on praying and I kept on writing until I felt my prayer was complete and then I stopped. And now the world has the book, ā€œI Need A Day to Pray.ā€

And who will benefit from this book?

Every single human being that reads it. I was writing the vision and making it plain. I was literally writing out the vision for my life as a woman, as a mother, as a creative person, as a minister, as an entrepreneur, all of these aspects of my life that I could think of, that I could consider, I found in the word of God how it was supposed to be, what I supposed to be, what perspective I was supposed to have, how I was designed to be and I wanted to declare and decree and pray that over my life.

Thatā€™s when I realized my life was not broken up by quote unquote infidelity or the sudden death of my father or professional devastation and change and challenges when I realized that the outcome of my life was not necessarily a result of all of that, but it was the result of my perspective on who I was and who God was and who His people were. And I realized the issue was with me and not everybody else. So I took my eyes off of the world and I put it on me. And I put it on my Creator. And I started trying to figure out in His manual, how am I supposed to function. And I personalized it based on His word.

So every single person that reads it can benefit from it because itā€™s the Bible backing every prayer that I prayed. If I could not find a Biblical foundation or backing for it, I changed it because I was not praying according to Godā€™s word. And whenever you pray Godā€™s language itā€™s going to become real in your life because God says that His word will not return to Him void. And I prayed these prayers every single day for well over a year and now Iā€™m living exactly what I prayed.

So I am absolutely, positively expecting that exact same thing to happen for every person that picks up this book. The purpose is that people will read this book and understand the relevance of the Bible, the practical application of the Bible, how itā€™s not just for me and church and on spiritual days, itā€™s for every single aspect of your existence. It is the Creatorā€™s manual for the created.

6. So as I was watching you discuss your book on YouTube, you mentioned a Bible verse that I have never heard of before: The Lord shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.” Deuteronomy 28:7. That is going to be one of my new favorite Bible verses! What is your favorite Bible verse and why?

Oh girl, I couldnā€™t even give you that! I love the Word! Itā€™s what I do all day and all night. What brainwashed me. What transformed me. Adjusted and made better my entire life. My relationship is better. My songwriting is better. Iā€™m a better mother. Natural stuff and spiritual stuff. Everything about my life is better because of the Word. I donā€™t even know what to give you. Itā€™s funny because I have a Bible sitting up open in front of me right now. Let me take you to Psalm. I think itā€™s Psalm 139 when it tells us about how God knows us, every aspect of our entire existence from being in our motherā€™s womb. My sister always references Proverbs 3:5 and 6 and thatā€™s a pretty amazing one.Ā  Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” I had to have some experience with it.

But then it goes on to say in verse 7 and 8, ā€œBe not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.ā€ I mean thatā€™s a really good one because it tells us that when we lean on our own understanding we might end up sick and kind of tore up. But when we lean to Godā€™s understanding, we will absolutely be well.

Another one is Proverbs 4:20, 21 and 22. “My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.” Again, amazing truths. I could just scan through my Bible and give you 50 scriptures because I really do love the word of God, the whole book.

Are you available for book conferences and book club meetings?

Iā€™m not available for every thing, but I am available for some things. Iā€™ll avail myself where I feel led to go. Iā€™m grateful to have an event called an ā€œAn Evening With Tina Campbell.ā€ It wasnā€™t my intention to pursue being an author so I could be a part of peopleā€™s book clubs or travel around and tell people Iā€™m an author or fit into any particular space. Not my agenda. I like to do what Iā€™m passionate about. I like to do what I feel I can do from my heart and the evening with Tina Campbell that Iā€™m doing May 30, itā€™s a kick off to my tour in the fall. But the event literally infuses excerpts from my book, five to six of my new songs and the story of how my test became my testimony. How the most devastating situation that I had ever experienced in life became the most beautiful story of reconciliation and rebuilding and refreshing and becoming better in every imaginable way. I infuse all of that in “An Evening With Tina Campbell,” and Iā€™m very candid even more candid than in the TV show.

Tina Campbell_Album Cover_Its Personal (2)7. I know you are having some issues with the release of your new solo album ā€œItā€™s Personal.ā€ Any word on when the album will be available, and what is happening right now?

What I posted on my Mary Mary Facebook page if youā€™re following. The truth is I am an independent label now, but Iā€™m accustomed to being an artist. Iā€™m not accustomed to being an executive so now that Iā€™ve taken on that responsibility, there are a lot of things Iā€™m learning. There are a lot of twists and turns and surprises in this business and when you donā€™t know to prepare for them and to make time and space for them, you find that out while everybody is watching and while you are missing deadlines so ultimately that is what it is. Iā€™ve done everything that I can actually do. My music is taking the time to go through the channels to become available, and Iā€™m hoping that will happen any day now. But I really do believe that it will be worth the wait.

Any thoughts?

 

 

Atlanta’s First Black First Lady Pens New Church for Churches…

Hello World, ms. bunnie jackson ransom

I wanted to end Women’s History Month by devoting today’s blog entry to an important woman in Atlanta history. That woman is Ms. Bunnie Jackson-Ransom, president and CEO of firstClass, Inc., a full-service public relations and marketing firm she founded in 1975. Her clients lengthy list of clients have included but are definitely not limited to: The National Conference of Black Mayors, Burger King Corporation, the Trumpet Awards,Ā  The King Center, American Traffic Solutions, Jackmont Hospitality, Inc. and Edmond, Lindsay & Hoffler, LLC.

Ms. Jackson-Ransom has enjoyed a multifaceted career.Ā While serving as president and owner of firstClass, she responded to a request to manage the careers of several performing artists; and from 1978 through 1988, she was the chief administrative officer of a conglomerate company under the umbrella of Atlanta Artists.Ā Ā  She began her career in the music industry after she had already distinguished herself as a business woman in the areas of education, government and public relations.Ā  As president of Atlanta Artists Management, she was also responsible for the daily activities of Atlanta Artist Productions and Atlanta Artists Records, and managed the recording career of acts such as CAMEO and Larry Blackmon and The SOS Band.

Ms. Jackson-Ransom is a member of the National Council of Negro Women; Atlanta Association of Black Journalists; the Atlanta Branch of the NAACP; The Links, Inc.; the Metropolitan Atlanta Coalition of 100 Black Women.Ā  She is also an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority where she served as past local chapter president and past chairman of the National Projects Committee. In the early 1970ā€™s she served the City of Atlanta as its first black ā€œFirst Ladyā€ during her marriage to the late Mayor Maynard Jackson before they divorced in 1976. She is the proud mother of three daughters and one son. More recently, she is the grandmother of five. She is an active member of Cascade United Methodist Church. To read her complete biography, please go to her Ms. Jackson-Ransom’s website.

second editionMs. Jackson-Ransom is also the author of Getting The Word Out: How To Market Your Ministry: Communication Tools & Tactics You Need For Evangelism, which was originally published in 2010 but recently revised. Her book is the reason that I wanted to feature her on this blog.

Ā 1. Why did you write Getting the Word Out?

I wrote this book because I had been doing public relations for churches for a long time. It started with a project that I did for Apostle Collette Gumby and a church called Green Pastures. She was doing a play called ā€œKing of Glory,ā€ and I got excited about the play. I was working for Burger King. Burger King was a client, and my job was community affairs for Burger King. So I presented the project to Burger King. They liked it, and they became a sponsor for the churchā€™s play. As a result of my working with Rev. Gumby, I found myself doing things for the church, press releases about the church, getting interviews for the church about the play and so forth and put that in my bucket of things I had done so to speak.

So when I joined Cascade United Methodist Church, the pastor there was Rev. Walter Kimbrough. He put me to work on doing some things for him like handling the project for his retirement and before the retirement, his anniversary. And I kept on doing work for my church. There was a need for someone to do the things that I was doing for the church. I finally said to Rev. Kimbrough, ‘Iā€™m treating you like a client. You have a spot in my computer. You have a folder in my files. How about considering retaining my services?’ And he did. So I worked for the church for at least five or six years before he retired.

What I discovered was that I had a plan in my head for handling marketing for churches. It wasnā€™t that much different from the way one goes about handling marketing for any other organization or corporation. You have a product. The product has to be pushed out into the marketplace for use. And so I said this is a book.

2. Why is getting the word out important for churches?

If nobody knows that you are there, nobody will come. God is a master marketer. The reason I say that is because of Matthew 2:2. We saw a star in the east and have come to worship Him. That star is a billboard that God put in the sky. If the wise men hadnā€™t seen it, they would not have come to worship the baby Jesus. God has been marketing Christianity, and Jesus was a marketing person. He rode in cities with palms. That is like a parade.

And look at Romans 10: 14 . How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? This verse says to me, How can they do any of that if you donā€™t get the word out and compel them to come into Godā€™s house. When you drive up and down Cascade Road, there are at least seven churches within a mile. What makes me go to church A and rather than church B? Itā€™s marketing. Itā€™s how you get the word out about your church.

3. I understand that you are also available to present your book as a workshop to churches.

Yes, several pastors have invited me to their churches. Pastor William Flippin of Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church in DeKalb County bought several copies of the book and gave them to his leadership team. He brought me in to do a session on the book, and then he took it a step further, he asked me to come back and do a session on crisis communications.Ā  I just returned from a session in Little Rock, Arkansas with Pastor Ronnie Miller-Yow. He brought me in to do a seminar before several United Methodist churches from that district. I worked with Jeffries Cross Church in Burlington, North Carolina.

I have several plans that I offer churches. With one plan I just come in and do the seminar and another one, I do the seminar and help you start your communications committee. I leave the committee with job descriptions and help them develop a media database for the area that they are in, show them how to write a press release, or I can give the church the plan and come back in six months to see what youā€™ve done or you call me up and say, ‘Bunnie, Iā€™ve written a press release, can you tweak it?’

4. Why did you revise the book?

It had holes in it. Social media happened. I didnā€™t give that much attention to it in the first book. I just mentioned it. Now I discuss about three or four platforms that would work for the church. And then I put in a chapter in it about crisis communications.

5. It seems that many churches are having crises. How should churches handle crises?

First of all, get ready for it, because the bigger you get, the more apt you are to have some kind of crisis. Whether it spills over into the media or not, that is irrelevant. If it spills over into the media, then you really have a public crisis, but there are some crises inside the pews that no one ever knows about but the church.

First of all, appoint a crisis committee. I mention the type of people who should be on that committee. If itā€™s a legal crisis, then you pull in your lawyer. But letā€™s say it is the kind of crisis that spills over into the media, you need to have a crisis go-to person. It doesnā€™t have to be the senior pastor, it could be the associate pastor. If you have a communications committee, it might be the chair of that committee. That is the person who calls the crisis team together.

Letā€™s say one of the deacons absconded with the collection plate. How do we fix this? We start talking to the congregation about the positive things that are going on in the church. If itā€™s in the media, talk about the positive the church is doing and give the media something else to talk about because if you donā€™t give the media something, they will do their job and report the story that they know about.

6. How did you get your start in public relations? good times

When Ernie Barnes asked for my help. He was the artist that did the paintings for J.J. on “Good Times.”Ā  Ernie and I went to school together. I was married to the mayor and people would ask me to help them do things. So Ernie wanted to penetrate the Atlanta market and sell some paintings so I asked Ernie if he would do an exhibit and connect it to my (then) husbandā€™s campaign to show that the Mayor Jackson campaign had a sensitivity for the arts.

So I went to the High Museum and asked if they would let us do something there with Ernie Barnes and the answer was no because they already had a schedule and we couldnā€™t fit in the schedule. So then I could found out that I could rent the lobby of the High Museum. So Ernie and I rented the lobby and we hung his paintings in the lobby. In the lobby, you could see his paintings on the way to Symphony Hall or going to the theatre or going anywhere there. We did a catalog of his paintings, and we hired someone to sit there. Well, Ernie sold out.

I took Ernieā€™s paintings to the president of the Coca-Cola Company who at that time was Paul Austin and asked if he would support the project and he did. Ernie did some paintings called the ‘The Beauty of the Ghetto.’ That was the exhibit was called and we donated prints to all of the boys and girls clubs in Atlanta. And we got Ernie on the front page of the Sunday section of the newspaper with some of his paintings. I asked Ernie how much would you have paid someone to do this. He said, ‘Oh about $5,000.’ And remember this was a long time ago. I said, ‘Okay, Iā€™m not volunteering anymore.’ And thatā€™s how I got started. Thatā€™s how I realized what I was doing had value.

7. As Atlanta’s first black First Lady, have you ever wanted to give advice to our nation’s black First Lady Michelle Obama?

When President Obama was first elected, I used to say to myself, ‘Lord, just let me get to her.’ Iā€™ve spoken to her, but there was such a flurry of people that I couldnā€™t say what I wanted to say. What I wanted to way was, ‘Hang in there. This too shall pass.’ When I was First Lady, I wanted my own thing so to speak. And I get the same feeling about Michelle. I mean sheā€™s a lawyer so sheā€™s got to have an ego. Sheā€™s got to have a dream of her own. And being the First Lady for me and most likely for her meant that I had to put my goals on the back burner so I want to say, ‘Hang in there, Sister. In eight years, it will be over.”

To buy a copy of Ms. Jackson-Ransom’s book, please go click on the link: Getting the Word Out: How to Market Your Ministry.

Any thoughts?

 

Free Access to the NIV Bible Through New Mobile App & Book Giveaway!!!

NIV_50th_Concepts_09_15_2014Hello World,

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the NIV, the worldā€™s bestselling Bible, is being offered as a free mobile app for 2015!!! For the entire calendar year, Zondervan, partnered with Biblica and Tecarta, have created the NIV 50th Anniversary mobile app, which provides convenient, access to the worldā€™s most read Bible, with just a swipe of the finger. Compatible with iOS and Android operating systems, the app provides valuable content in addition to the NIV Bible at no cost to the user.

Inside the app, users will have access to devotional and study notes from bestselling NIV Bibles.Ā  Stories and videos related to the 50th anniversary are also featured for readers to learn more about the history and development of the NIV. Each quarter, new anniversary content will be made available and the campaignā€™s theme will change, highlighting another promise of the translation for its readers.

ā€œThe NIV was Made to Read from the beginning and still is today.Ā  There is no better way to kick off the theme than by offering the NIV for free for an entire year,ā€ said John Kramp, SVP and Bible publisher for HarperCollins Christian Publishing. ā€œOur intent is to make Godā€™s Word easily accessible to millions through the launch of this mobile app.ā€

The NIV 50th Anniversary mobile app is free and available here. For additional information on the NIV 50th Anniversary, please visit www.thenivbible.com.Ā  Or, connect with the NIV Bible on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+.

Below is the video about the NIV 50th Anniversary…

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