Open letter to Inside The Pew readers:
Quality community faith-based news has arrived.
Welcome to Inside The Pew, a community faith news magazine catering to churches, ministries and faith-based nonprofit
organizations in Texas and Louisiana. The Pew is an outreach program of Emanuel and The Mainline Ministries Inc., a
501 (c) (3) faith-based nonprofit public charity. Through creating this Web site, it is my goal to help increase the presence
of community faith news, which has been eliminated or drastically reduced in the mainstream media.
The Pew boasts a diverse readership across socioeconomic, racial and denomination lines. Since premiering March 3,
2009, we have more than 300 readers who subscribe to our free weekly e-mail update, and we average 2,100 hits per
month. In July, we premiered a Spanish version of The Pew; this will allow us to reach the diverse Hispanic community.
In addition, our publication is also a training ground for future religion journalists and individuals who are interested in
entering the ministry. Each semester, we offer a paid internship to a student who is interested in one of these areas.
Students and graduates from the University of North Texas and Dallas Theology Seminar have been awarded the
opportunity to train with The Pew.
By purchasing paid promotion space on The Pew, you will help your business or church reach our ever-growing
subscribers who are churchgoers and consumers. You are also giving back to your community by supporting our
workforce initiative to help college students and displaced workers train for careers.
Thank you for visiting our site, and your interest in supporting this worthy cause.
Blessings,
Grelan A. Muse Sr.
Founder, Inside The Pew
Pastor Grelan Muse Sr.
Founder
Pastor Grelan A. Muse is founder of the
religion news Web site. Muse is a
licensed ordained minister in Baton
Rouge. Muse graduated from Amite (La.)
High School in 1981, and immediately
after graduation, pursued and obtained his
minister’s license. He attended Macon
(Ga.) Junior College,
where he majored in psychology and
earned a theology certificate from Liberty
Bible College in Vicksburg, Va.
He has worked in the security industry
since 1989, and spent nine years as a
correctional officer for the Georgia
Department of Corrections.
Muse is also founder of Emanuel and
The Mainline Ministries, an
organization he created in Maringouin,
La., in 1998. EMM is a registered 501
(c) 3. He has served on several boards,
including New Life Coach Inc.
Tonya Andris
Managing Editor
Tonya Andris has worked as a copy editor
and freelance writer for daily and weekly
publications since July 1998. Born in
Houston and raised in Port Arthur, she
graduated from Thomas Jefferson High
School in 1992.
As a student at Lamar, she worked as a
staff member of the University Press; she
served as editor during the 1997-98 school
year. Andris won several professional and
collegiate journalism honors from the
Southwestern Journalism Congress,
Texas Intercollegiate Press Association
and the Press Club of Southeast Texas.
After departing Lamar, Andris worked as a
copy editor for four daily newspapers, The
Port Arthur News, Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, Brazosport Facts and The
Huntsville Item. She has also freelanced
for Gospel Truth Magazine and Houston
Community Newspapers.
She resides in Irving, and attends Skillman
church of Christ in Dallas.
About our staff
Patricia F. Reiss
Reporter, South Texas
The Pew en Español
Patricia F. Reiss is a fully bilingual
(Spanish and English) writer and editor
who has traveled extensively around her
native country, Spain, as well as many
other European countries such as
England, Greece, Italy, Portugal and
Turkey. She graduated with a bachelor of
arts in journalism from Texas A&M
University-Kingsville.
Reiss has a background in advertising and
marketing, as well as public relations, and
has freelanced for the Portland News and
as a communications specialist for the
Portland (Texas) Chamber of Commerce.
She has been a writer for
www.insidethepew.org since its humble
beginnings, translating, editing and writing
stories in both Spanish and English.
Pioneering the Spanish division, Reiss
holds the position of the Spanish copy
editor and is the South Texas beat
reporter and photographer for The Pew,
covering the areas of Corpus Christi,
Portland, Rockport and Kingsville among
others.
Reiss is a member of The National
Association of Hispanic Journalists.