Lit.
Dist.
3,818
,438
1,237
, 903
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ngelist Highlights
Bible New Former Bible Baptisms
School Persons SDAs Prayer Studies From LE
Enroll. Att. Mtgs. Contacted Offered Given Contacts
2,121 18 15 2,198 336 16
2,919 417 182 8,276 1,953 86
783 10 62 1,406 55 11
13 344 28 2
3,343 164 107 10,667 1,240 66
2,815 1,139 548 8,819 2,386 234
6,221 882 532 16,823 3,342 118
18,215 2,630 1,446 48,533 9,340 533
Bruno; and Mariano Lara, Fresno.
* Northern’s Honor Roll members included Ricardo Tejada and Gilberto
Garcia from Hayward and Woodbridge respectively.
* Listed from Southeastern also are Eva Munoz and Emmanuel Aziz, River-
side; and Joaquin Maritato of Chula Vista.
* Other Central California literature evangelists on the Honor Roll (sales
exceeding $3,000 per month) were Pedro Rascon, Fresno; Luis Uriate, San
* Southern’s Honor Roll members included Dianisio Dallator, Baldwin
Park; Miguel Acebedo, Pasadena; Bennie Fairchild, Simi Valley; Abel Oroz-
co, Pasadena; Kyei Whone Cho, Los Angeles; Raul Ferrando, Glendale; and
Fereh Rizk, La Crescenta.
* Serving the most years in literature ministry are Charles and Helen Eddy
of Eureka in Northern California. During his 33 years in the literature
ministry, Charles has sold nearly $750,000 worth of literature. Moreover, he
and Helen know of 175 persons who have been baptized as a result of their
witness.
If the above list sounds like a cultural lesson, you will be interested to
know that a little more than half of the books sold were in English. Actual
language sales for these 24 Honor Rollees are approximately 40 percent in
Spanish-language books, 2-3 percent in Korean, and the rest in English.
Credit Adviser Claude Morris has opportunity to discuss spiritual values
with both customers and suppliers.
Service Is the Goal of HHES
MB (Continued from column 5)
each of them to enjoy the rewards
of his new-found faith.
Your HHES office family
solicits your prayers that we may
be more effective. Each sale con-
summated and paid for is truly a
miracle. The LE in your area
especially needs your prayers, sup-
port and encouragement as he or
she is working by faith from day
to day spreading the good news of
Jesus’ love and soon return.
Your Publishing Department
and HHES needs your support in
deferred giving. The entire Pub-
lishing Ministry has been financed
from Conference appropriations
and earnings from the sales dollar
itself; however, for our literature
evangelists to do the work that
God has ordained, they need
massive support in areas such as
advertising in the newspapers, and
on radio and television.
If God has impressed you with
the urgency of helping spread the
“GOOD NEWS’ via the printed
page and you would like to sup-
port this ministry either by de-
ferred giving or present giving,
please consult with your local
Conference Trust officers. Or you
may call us toll-free in California
at (800) 322-5982. In the balance
of the mainland the toll-free
number is (800) 235-7030. From
Hawaii, call (805) 497-9333.
&
Service Is the Goal of
HHES
by Everett D. Tetz, Director, Home Health Education Service
Service—on a one-to-one basis
to the public, to the literature
evangelist (LE) and to the seven
conferences in
the Pacific Union
—this 1s the goal
and achievement
of the Pacific
Union Home
Health Educa-
tion Service
(HHES) today.
The highly ef-
ficient equipment and personnel
at HHES today are able to per-
form services to our literature
evangelists’ customers that were
not even dreamed of in the past
decade. Incoming and outgoing
WATS telephone lines give cus-
tomers, literature evangelists and
HHES personnel instant contact
in handling the many minute
details involved in selling an
average of one-half million dollars
of soul-stirring literature to
customers every month.
The Wang computer, under the
direction of Ted Benson, has the
power to track each customer
transaction so that HHES person-
nel know the exact status of any
one of the 20,000 active custom-
ers.
Computer knowledge enables
communications previously im-
possible. For example, HHES is a
certified user of the United States
Post Office E-Com mailing serv-
ice. This service enables HHES to
send billing notices to customers
via electronic pulses to established
post office centers for printing
and distribution from various
postal centers throughout the
U.S.
Thus, messages sent on Wednes-
day afternoon to the Los Angeles
area are printed, stuffed and de-
livered by the post office to LE
customers on Thursday for just 26
cents per letter.
Truly, God has given man
knowledge today so that we can
carry on an effective witnessing
and selling program as well as
make the program an efficient
business.
HHES total sales during 1983
passed the $6 million mark. In-
crease to net worth exceeded
$250,000.
The Pacific Union’s newest
building complex was primarily
Everett D. Tetz
Watsonville Spanish Church Inaugurates
Summer Literature Program for Youth
When Watsonville, California,
Spanish members considered the
restlessness of their vouth last
summer, Fidel Diaz had an idea.
Personal ministries leader of his
church and husband of a literature
evangelist, Mr. Diaz suggested a
“small literature program’ to his
pastor who himself had been a
student LE.
Pastor Marvin Santos contacted
Eddy Canales, a conference assist-
ant publishing director; and the
team obtained two vehicles with
PACIFIC UNION RECORDER /MARCH 5, 1984
some volunteer drivers. On June
14 ten youth, aged 12-17, began a
systematic visitation and sale of
small books and periodicals.
By summer’s end, they had
delivered $13,700 in cash sales of
books and 11,000 Spanish jour-
nals. In addition, they had prayed
in scores of homes, shared their
faith, and obtained educational
funds.
Other congregations could
share in this motivational employ-
ment for their youth this summer.
constructed to house a warehouse
for HHES inventory. This ware-
house has enabled HHES to serve
the conferences and LEs with
proper inventory and with increas-
ing efficiency. Though local con-
ferences are reducing inventories
at their locations, LEs have inven-
Kevin Blankenship, HHES ship-
ping supervisor, repacks about
125 sets of the five-volume My
Bibie Friends per month for LE
sales.
tory replaced to them faster than
ever before—reducing capital re-
quirements on the Conference and
LE levels.
It is estimated that the present
warehouse facility could process
upwards of $25 million per year
based on 1984 dollars.
However, the bottom line of the
entire Publishing and HHES out-
reach is soul winning. We wish
that each of you could listen in on
the thousands of phone conversa-
tions taking place at HHES every
month. Customers are prayed
with; they are counseled; they are
encouraged to study the books
they have purchased. If customers
are happy in reading what they
have purchased, they will usually
pay for their merchandise.
Thus soul winning Is not
restricted to phone calls and let-
ters; HHES personnel—credit
checkers, credit advisers and
supervisors—witness to salespeo-
ple and service people too.
When HHES moved to Westlake
seven years ago, service contracts
were set up on the various equip-
ment where outside knowledge is
essential. One such service was on
our Pitney Bowes mail inserter.
Despite its being old and long
since depreciated, this equipment
does insert our mail at 120 pieces
per minute—if you know how to
operate it and keep it running!
About five years ago HHES
contracted with Chuck McDonald
to service not only the equipment
but to be on the job with us during
our monthly main billing pro-
cedure. Mr. McDonald was given
The Desire of Ages as a Christmas
Cashier Dottie Piekaar handles an
average of 800 envelopes with pay-
ments daily, though others often
open them for her.
present as well as other books
from time to time.
During the billing process
Claude Morris, a credit adviser
with the HHES staff, witnessed to
him. Today the McDonald family
are members of our Church fami-
ly. But, the benefits do not end
with Church membership only;
now Mr. McDonald looks for-
ward to our ever-expanding and
increasing number of customers
on the mailing list for he wants
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£
Young men and women from the Spanish Church in Watsonville, Califor-
nia, who sold $13,700 of small books and journals last summer posed
with Mrs. Julieta Rasi, editor of Amigo and Rainbow Friends, during a
visit to Pacific Press. Each wears the distinctive T-shirt of the ‘Rainbow
Friends Club.”