Samaritan Ministries

Areas of Interests

• Biblical teaching: These articles encourage readers in their walk with the Lord, using biblical references. The teaching must fall within the Samaritan Ministries’ statement of faith.
• Health care: These articles focus on the economics and freedom of health care.
  • The content must not favor one political party over another.
• Health: These articles focus on health information that:
  • Have a Biblical worldview (no abortion, fetal stem cells, gender dysphoria, etc.)
  • Must provide sources
  • Make no extravagant promises of healing
  • Have been demonstrated to be reliable by third parties
  • Help members to take charge of their health decisions.
• Pro-life: These articles educate about new pro-life efforts, whether involving babies, the elderly, people with disabilities, foster parenting, adoption, the terminally ill, expecting and new mothers, single mothers, caretakers for the terminally ill, etc.
• Financial stewardship: These articles provide help to members on being good stewards of their resources as members of a health care sharing ministry.
• Personal health experiences.

Submission Format

• Summary proposals of 100 words or less can be submitted.
• Proposals or articles must be submitted through email to [email protected] as .docx attachments. Please include the word “Submission” in the subject line.

• To be able to run in a specific month, an article must be submitted two full months before the desired month. For example, to run in April, a submission typically must arrive by the previous February 1.

• Format for submissions: Calibri or Arial font, 11-point type, single-spaced, normal margins, 6 points between paragraphs (no double returns), single space between sentences.
• No paper submissions will be accepted.
• Word count: 500-1,000. Higher word count negotiable.
• All articles with references to other publications or to web pages must include sources as endnotes.
• Payment tiers available upon request at [email protected].

Types of Articles

We will consider:

• Original articles;
• Reprints of blog posts or previously published articles;
  • The author must have reprinting rights.
  • If previously published, a URL or PDF of the published article must be included.
• Book excerpts;
  • The author/publisher must have reprinting rights and grant Samaritan Ministries permission to reprint.
  • The excerpts must be submitted to us in .docx format as an email attachment.
  • Excerpts needing grammatical and spelling corrections will be considered, but the author must agree to corrections.

What SMI will do

• Samaritan Ministries Christian Health Care Newsletter’s editors will carefully consider your submissions and respond with our decision within one month.
• If the editors approve your article for publication, we will send you a written agreement granting SMI appropriate rights to print the article.
• We will pay you for your work according to our compensation levels.
• We will pay you promptly following publication.
• We will promptly notify you of any questions or concerns we have about your work if it’s accepted for publication and we will work with you to improve the article.

Miscellaneous

• If we accept your article for publication and you are paid, you will be required to fill out a W-9 form for tax purposes.
• Samaritan Ministries reserves the right to cancel or delay publication of an article at any time.