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I will confess that I gave sufficient advertisement of my eightieth birthday! In spite of my senile self-centeredness, many of you were most gracious in sending your good wishes and expressions of love. Some of those notes and Christmas greetings are included in this issue, but there are many more. Each one is cherished. I wish that I could respond to all individually. Please accept our thanks. God has sent so many of you wonderful people into our lives as encouragers and partners. We are truly blessed.
Statistics for 1998 These figures are given because so many of you are or have been partners in one way or another in this ministry.
1624 copies of Free In Christ were distributed free of charge. I pay for the printing of all books and recover $1.00 for each book given free. That does not cover the initial cost, but I pay postage for all books from our working fund. Since we began twelve years ago, 29,729 copies have been distributed free. They are your gifts to others.
Forty copies were sent in December (by invitation) for distribution at the women’s conference in Germany.
$1,500.00 was sent in December to India to print 1,000 copies of the Telugu translation of Free In Christ for free distribution. We had about enough to pay for the Spanish translation, but it is not ready yet. So I robbed that fund to go ahead with the Telugu. If it is not replenished, Lea and I will bear the cost ourselves, and we will recover nothing from this distribution.
$1,227.67 remains in the working fund. From it we also pay for the Freedom’s Ring mailout which is rather expensive. In fact, two copies mailed out would pay for a book in India.
1,120 of you receive FR by e-mail and 664 receive mailed copies.
68,200 times since we began our web page three years ago it has been accessed. Anyone anywhere on earth can access all of my writings at the site. They can read, print out, or download any or all of it at no cost. We have no way of knowing the extent of that outreach, but we receive grateful response from some. We have reason to believe that the free web site access has reduced the number of books sold.
Freedom’s Ring is free for the asking. It is infrequent and may be phased out at any time. To subscribe to the e-mail edition, contact Vic in Shreveport at freedom@freedomsring. org Your letters are most welcome, however attachments sometimes choke and confuse my computer, and if they are long enough to attach, I probably won’t have time to read them. I do not find time to read all essays that are sent, much less to respond to them. Nor do I read all the forwarded materials. Sorry about that. Spare me the commercial stuff!
Talk about a different world! Our grandsons here attend an elementary school where 84 students either speak no English or very little, and they are from 27 different national and linguistic backgrounds. Until college, I was never with a student that was not of a white, Protestant family – and very few in college.
J. C. Reed has spent most of the sixty years I have known him serving in Guatemala. Now, past eighty, he would like to begin turning his work (like his radio program) over to someone proficient in Spanish who can help train native preachers. You may write him at 17003 San Benito, Peten, Guatemala, Central America.
Online Community: Free In Christ. You could not reach the interactive discussion group that Vic has initiated using the URL I gave you. How could you expect me to copy such an URL perfectly? http://mycomm.excite.com/mycomm/browse.asp?cid=32863 .
Vic adds this: Dear Community Member, Have you been frustrated trying to share a long message in our community discussion area? Well, now we can share files (word processing, spreadsheet, database, or small programs) in the Community. You can upload your sermon, class notes, or article in MS Word or RTF format so others can download it and enjoy. Let me know if you have any problem. vic@freedomsring.org -Vic Phares.
May you have no greater worries in 1999 than I am having about the devastating Y2K problem that the alarmists are screaming and hollering about!