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Easy Way to Receive Email Summary of New Posts on Our Site

We’ve revamped our site to post new photos, updates, prayer requests and more on a fairly frequent basis. Our desire is to connect with you in short little snippets, giving you more of a porthole view into our family and ministry.

If you want to receive these web updates via email, then sign up below.

An email summary will be sent by FeedBlitz only once on any day that there are new posts on HandsHeadlines. And, yes, it is FREE both for us and for you.

NOTE: If your email service uses a spam or ‘junk mail’ filter, you may need to change the settings to allow incoming mail from FeedBlitz.com

You may Unsubscribe at any time.
*Rest Assured* – We’ve used the Feedblitz service for a while to get updates from other web sites. It is totally safe. Signing up will not increase junk mail coming to you.

To read an RSS feed, you’ll need to use a program that can receive and read RSS. Many people use programs called RSS readers to manage and read their RSS subscriptions. There are many RSS readers available for all computer platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.), and many of them are free. One of the more popular free RSS readers is SharpReader (visit www.sharpreader.net for details); there are many others available to try out.

What if I’d Rather Just Use Email?
See our related post about an easy way to receive an Email Summary of new posts. Click here.


How Can I Use Google to Read an RSS Feed?

One of the easiest ways we have found to subscrible to and read RSS Feeds is by using Google Reader. (More about Google Reader) Here’s a great tutorial: http://andywibbels.com/flash/google_reader.htm
(This is a very good, brief audio-visual demonstration of Google Reader. Make sure you turn on your computer speakers. You can pause the presentation by clicking the “Stop/Play” button at the bottom of the screen.)


So how do I subscribe to Hands Headlines RSS Feed?

It’s fairly straightforward:

If you use Google, see the instructions above. Or just. . .

1. Set up a program to read RSS feeds.
2. Create a new channel in your RSS reader program with the URL of the feed to which you’d like to subscribe. Each RSS reader program has its own way of subscribing to a feed, so follow the instructions for whichever program you’re using. The URL for our feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/HandsHeadlines – copy and paste this address into your program.
3. That’s it! Once you’ve created your new channel, you are subscribed to that feed and will receive new content automatically whenever it is posted.

What IS RSS?
RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication,” and is a popular way for websites to syndicate their content. When you subscribe to our RSS feed, you can receive that content as soon as it’s published, without the need to visit the HandsHeadlines web site. No longer will you have to remember how to spell “HandsHeadlines.com” Nor will you need to tie a string on your finger to remember to visit our site! 🙂

The RSS Feed shows you only the newest content which has been posted. Subscribing to any RSS feed is FREE.

Can I Receive an RSS Feed by Email?
YES, it is very easy. Click here for more information.


This is the generally accepted symbol for RSS. You may have seen this or a similar button on some web sites which offer RSS feeds. If you click on it, it will show you the RSS “raw feed.” When viewed as a web page, the RSS Feed might look like gibberish. You may be able to read the titles and see some pictures, but it won’t look like a normal web page in your browser. You’ll need a special progam called a RSS Reader or a Feed Reader to view the feed. (See “How to Subscribe to Our Site via RSS” )

Why Should I Care About RSS?
In the near future, newer verions of Internet Explorer or whatever Web Browser you use to look at web pages will have the ability for you to view RSS feeds automatically. (A few already do have this capability) Since this will save time in viewing updates from all your favorite sites, RSS will become more and more popular.