{"id":111213,"date":"2022-09-27T15:43:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T22:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=111213"},"modified":"2022-09-28T16:16:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T23:16:47","slug":"msia-presidency-update-october-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/111213-msia-presidency-update-october-2022","title":{"rendered":"MSIA Presidency Update \u2013 October 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our lives have not been the same since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Luckily, MSIA was prepared with our existing online courses and we shifted to grow our offerings even more.\u00a0\u00a0 John and Leigh rose to the occasion with <a href=\"https:\/\/msia.brightcovegallery.com\/blessingthisday\">Blessing this Day<\/a> and never looked back.\u00a0\u00a0 We thought it would be good to reflect on where MSIA is now, two and a half years later, and how things look going forward.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, things are getting back to normal.\u00a0\u00a0 We have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/events\/e\/living-in-grace-retreat\">Living in Grace retreat<\/a> scheduled in Pacific Grove, California this December and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/events\/e\/save-the-date-pts-traveler-tour-2023\">PTS Traveler Tour to Israel 2023<\/a> is going to require two busses due to demand.\u00a0\u00a0 Attendance for the events in the staff European tour has been good and the staff will be in South America at the end of October.\u00a0\u00a0 We are also planning staff trips for next year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the in-person participation at Prana for monthly ministers meeting has been a fraction of the pre-pandemic crowds.\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps even the delicious Prana brunch spread can\u2019t beat the lure of watching the meeting in one\u2019s pajamas.\u00a0How folks want to participate in events either in person or online is something\u00a0PTS and MSIA will continue to monitor so we can support and respond to students\u2019 needs.<\/p>\n<p>A big change is coming to the PTS course platform in October and November for its classes like MSS, DSS, the Transcendental Leadership program, the Harmonic Self, and others.\u00a0\u00a0 We are migrating to a new learning management system that offers improvements over the existing one we use for PTSwisdom.org.\u00a0\u00a0 Hugo Alvarado is leading the project for PTS and we are very excited about it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Another improvement expected in the coming months is the creation of a find-a-seminar search feature on MSIA.org that will allow users to find MSIA home seminars around the world in their language.\u00a0\u00a0 Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>One of our adorable longtime MSIA staff members was surprised to learn that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/media\/videos\/\"><em><strong>That Which Is<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is on the MSIA app.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a good reminder that we can always keep getting the word out there about the great features we have in the MSIA app and website. \u00a0\u00a0Another important feature of which some folks aren\u2019t aware is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/media\/help-faq\/\">Help Section<\/a> on <strong><em>That Which Is<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0\u00a0On the website, it is always at the top header of the page as a question mark icon next to the word \u201chelp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Help Section has several tutorial videos and Frequently Asked Questions to assist you use the <strong><em>That Which Is<\/em><\/strong> streaming platform.\u00a0\u00a0The short video tutorials include some of these topics: How to Navigate Playlists, How to Use the Autoplay Function, How to Find New Content, How to Gift a Subscription, and many more. \u00a0In the MSIA app, the FAQ\/Support section for <strong><em>That Which Is<\/em><\/strong> is found at the bottom of the <strong><em>That Which Is<\/em><\/strong> menu after you touch the menu icon in the upper left corner.<\/p>\n<p>One of MSIA\u2019s great features are the online seeding cards.\u00a0\u00a0It is so heartwarming to receive a seeding card email.\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to the encouragement of a couple MSIAers, Deborah Martinez and team have expanded the selection of seeding card images \u2013 some wonderful pictures of John and J-R are included for the first time. Please check it out!\u00a0\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/seedcard\">seeding card link<\/a> can be found on the MSIA.org home page Menu, as well as a custom Quick Link option on the left side of home page.\u00a0\u00a0 There is also a link option on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/loving-each-day-chrome-app\">Chrome extension app<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0You do know about the Chrome app, right?!\u00a0\u00a0 In case you don\u2019t, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/loving-each-day-chrome-app\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>God Bless you and thank you for participating in MSIA and for all that you give in so many ways. We love and appreciate you.<\/p>\n<p>The MSIA Presidency \u2013 Paul, Vincent, and Mark<br \/>\nMSIA Succession \u2013 David, Jeffrey, and Anna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our lives have not been the same since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Luckily, MSIA was prepared with our existing online courses and we shifted to grow our offerings even more.\u00a0\u00a0 John and Leigh rose to the occasion with Blessing this Day and never looked back.\u00a0\u00a0 We thought it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,6771,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-msia-presidency-updates","category-ndh-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}