HILLSPEAKING
from The Anglican Digest
LENT A.D. 2007
NEVER in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would
type these words, but here goes: Please do NOT send books, clericals,
tapes, or vestments to Operation Pass Along at Hillspeak.... until
after Easter Day!
Those of you who have visited Hillspeak know that we operate with a
very small staff (six employees and a more-or-less full time
volunteer). You may have also noticed that the Cold Room (a
no-heat storage room, hence the name) is chock-a-block with cartons of
books, vestments, and the like.
We have fallen ’way behind in the processing of books.
Here is the reason: Each book must be handled a minimum of three times:
1) when the books are received and taken out of their packaging and counted (so we can send the donor a receipt);
2) each book is compared with the Pass Along request list
to determine if somebody has asked for it (there are, at this writing,
3,517 requests on file);
3) the book is either packaged to be sent to a requester
(718 individual requesters) or it is shelved (19,878 on the shelves)
and the title, author, and shelf number are entered into the Pass Along
data base.
Clericals, tapes, and vestments go through a similar process.
That all takes a bit of doing and is time consuming.
A brief moratorium will allow us to catch up with our processing and as
a result better serve you and the Church. Bear with us and we
will soon be adding to those 171,722 books and 5,425 vestment items
that have been passed along.
©SPEAK, INC
805 CR 102 - EUREKA SPRINGS AR 72632-9705
PHONE: 479-253-9701
FAX:
479-253-1277 E-MAIL: speak@speakinc.org
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