Busy Berean

 We had a good busy day with everyone helping at many of the different jobs. Below are a few pictures of the morning. 

Below is a video of just some of the jobs.

We are very thankful those who come to serve.

A Good Work

 I'm back after missing 2 weeks of volunteering at the Berean office and was pleased to see they had kept up with all the work. When mom, Aunt Jinnie and I arrived they were Vonnie, Shirley and Justin were already hard at work preparing Bibles for mailing. In the other room Leila and Marvin were reading letters while Bruce worked the postage machine and Benj and Skip worked on the computer. 

Mom and Aunt Jinnie went right to work on envelopes while waiting for the first batch of studies to be processed on the computer.

The address stamp mom was using was running out of ink. Below Bruce is working to fill it.

Once the first batch was entered and the labels printed Aunt Jinnie finished processing the studies.

Below she is filling the second envelope with the prisoner's next batch of 4 studies.

Once those envelopes were sealed they were put in the pile for mailing.

Bill arrived to help with what ever needed doing. He shared the news that he is traveling up to Mayo Clinic tomorrow so please pray for Bill that the doctors there could find a treatment and start it soon. We don't know why Bill is going through such a hard time but he really does covet your prayers. We are praying for complete and ultimate healing.

Below Aunt Jinnie is filling the intermediate studies while Justin works on Bibles and Vonnie is folding the studies to be used next week.

Below is a short video of some of the work.

We were pleased that 75 Bible request came in today. The Bibles were loaded into the back of the wheel chair van and we dropped them off at the Hanna City post office on our way home. A VERY good morning's work.

Those Who Serve

 We had a busy morning at the Berean office. That busy morning was a blessing for the Berean volunteers from the start to the finish. 

We had 30 Bible requests today filled. Below Skip, Vonnie and Marvin are working on the Bibles while Chuck is finishing filling the studies and then sealing the envelopes. Shirley is working on filling the intermediate. Not pictures is the other Shirley, she was filling the basic studies, Kathy who was busy writing letters and Bill who was working with the postage machine.

Below is a short video of the morning.

Those who serve are such a blessing both here AND in the prisons, when the Bibles and studies arrive. 

Growing Requests

 Our mail was a little different today, there was more request letters than Bible studies for the week.  Beth came to help mom with her job.

Shirley and Vonnie worked on the studies. Leila and Skip were our readers until Marvin arrived, then Skip worked on the computer entering Bible studies and Bibles

Marvin has to look up all the problem letters on his computer.

When the Bible requests were all entered and the address labels printed out Skip and  Leila worked on getting the Bibles ready for mailing.

We had 30 Bible requests today.

We finished before noon today. Next week we will need to spend some extra time wrapping Bibles as we used all we had ready from last week plus needed to wrap another 4. We are very glad the requests for Bibles is growing. 

Our Skeleton Crew

 Mom and I were on our way to the Berean office by 8:13 am and only Beth beat us there. Today was TAG for most of the ladies, Bill and Joan are up at Mayo Clinic, Skip and Pat on a trip, Bruce was farming so that left a skeleton crew of Marvin, Leila, the two Shirley's, mom and I and today was a much bigger mail day than usual. We were kept busy all morning. 

So busy I only took the time to take the 3 pictures above. We were able to finish with everything and were ready to leave for home just after noon. We still needed to stop at the Hanna City post office to drop off the 2 full boxes of Bibles heading out and about 70 studies and made it to that office with 3 minutes to spare before they closed for lunch at 12:30 pm. Very thankful for what we got done today. 

Filling Boxes

Mom's car didn't have any air conditioning and it was predicted to be 94 degrees. We didn't have a lot of Berean mail so mom slept in today and I went to Berean myself.  Kathy was the only reader today. Skip was at the jail and Marvin was in Branson. 

Beth came in to help but needed to be at her Bibles study group at 9:30 am. 

Chuck and Shirley were put to work with labels and stuffing studies.

Below Vonnie, Shirley and Chuck were working on folding studies to fill boxes for later.

We were able to get other work done today since there wasn't that much mail. We still had 21 Bible requests and about 30 studies.

A Decent Amount

 We had a pretty decent amount of mail this morning at the Berean office and were glad for everyone volunteer that arrived.  Besides about 80 studies that needed processed there were also quite a few letters requesting Bibles. We started work before 9:00 am. 

We were thankful Marvin was back. 

Below Vonnie, Kathy and Shirley are busy stuffing studies for the next sets going out.

Once those were done it was time to get the Bibles ready for mailing.

It was a really good morning. We enjoyed pecan pie and coffee for our break.