Josh Basil
Weekly Report # 6
25 February 2007
I helped with the bulletins.
When I went down to the church on Friday to help with the bulletin, but Nancy (the secretary) had already typed it up. “The Beacon” is only one folded page front and back, so I would not have had much to type anyways. I proof read the whole thing looking for typos or grammar errors and found none. The computer and Nancy did a pretty good job! They print off three hundred bulletins in preparation for every Sunday. I folded them all and placed a one page insert in every one. The inserts are usually about events or things that aren’t on a regular basis. Nancy told me a few stories about when she volunteered at a church in (I think?) Virginia, when her husband was in the military. She said that it was perfectly normal for their bulletins to have anywhere from five to eight different colored inserts in their bulletin! It took me over an hour to fold all three hundred! I was quite surprised how much work goes into making the bulletins. I was in the sanctuary doing the bulletins and overheard Nancy talking on the phone. I was in awe of her conversation. A woman called with bad thoughts (maybe killing herself?) and she was crying. Nancy calmed her down, told her how precious life is and how much God loved her. I was amazed at how godly of a secretary she is and how talented the church staff is.