Problem Copier

Our Tuesday mornings are usually pretty much the same, the same work and a lot of the same volunteers and what is amazing is that there is enough work to keep everyone busy.  We had almost 170 studies come in today and 62 Bible requests. What was unusual today was where those requests came from. We had a request from a few different prisons and jails we have never sent Bibles to before and request for a Bible from a prisoner in a jail in Alaska. For some reason one doesn't think there is much crime in Alaska.  We were pretty thrilled today that Ray came back this week. He went right to work this week knowing exactly what to do.

 Bruce and Chuck also got right to work opening the studies. 

 Leila and Kathy were readers today. 

Dave was also a reader but when Lance showed up to work on the copy machine, he and Bill went out to talk to Lance. 

We got some bad news on the copy machine that was donated from an Alzheimer unit.  Dave was telling us that was why the machine forgot how to run.  Lance told Bill and Dave it is completely worn out and not worth spending the money to fix it. That puts us right back where we were a month or so ago really needing a working copy machine. We are not inclined to take in any more donated machines. This one weighs over 400 pounds and was really hard for Bill to get it here. His son even smashed one of his fingers while trying to help move it.  Lance is recommending we switch to a laser printer. He feels they are fast and cheap. The only problem with that is the cost of the ink. We always say, "This is God's ministry, if He wants it to continue we will find a way."

If we were to vote on which volunteer is the must enthusiastic, pretty much everyone would vote for Jeanette. She is always thrilled to be helping. 

 Robin keeps everything organized in the other room. 

 Below she has everyone stuffing studies of the next set of 4 for each prisoner that returned a study. 

 Once the stuffing was done the group below is stamping envelopes while waiting for me to finish printing out the Bible request for the week. 

 Once the requests are all filled and the studies all stuffed complete with the next 4 lessons, Bill loads everything in his car to take down to the post office. At that point we can clean off the table and serve lunch. We had a special lunch today. Robin brought in all kinds of Christmas goodies which we put on the table to pass around after eating but Dave took one look at all those delicious looking desserts and exclaimed, "what a good lunch!" We all had to laugh.