Newsletters for non-full-time ministers or missionaries?

I love reading news and newsletters, especially from friends and family. They make perfect materials for prayer, and are means by which we can care for brothers and sisters, friends and colleagues.

Many of my christian friends move onto full-time ministry, training and missionary work in different countries. And all of them write and report back how they have been, what they have been doing and how we can support them. They often share personal reflections and needs, to a close group of praying friends as they march on in their work. This made me think, why don't lay (full-time secular workers and students) christians publish newsletters or prayer requests as frequently and personally as such friends?

I don't see a good reason. Every christian has been called to be an active servant, through the saving work of Jesus, the Servant King, who by His sacrificial service made us all fit for serving God and His people. And every christian needs the prayers of their close ones. Although I don't want us to spend less time praying for people on the "frontline" of churches, mission fields, bible colleges, training and christian enterprises, I do wish that we could pray with equal fervour for fellow lay christians in ministries and struggles on the "backbench" of homes, offices, hobby groups, departments and so on.

Perhaps I will add a sister blog to bachnwill's randoms: bachnwillndan - serving our home and church in sydney, dedicated to updating our faithful family and friends on how we are, what we are doing and how they can support us. Of course, blogging or writing emails is not required when we just talk and hang out with friends and partners, unlike our christian friends overseas; blogging is just another way of talking.

Comments appreciated : )

p.s. a definite expansion of this blog is promised, titled bachnwillnmedia, where I'll put down my responses to books, movies, websites and other media.