Love Packages: Collecting

Moving Literature through Tanzania

Your House: Examine the bookshelves and attics for those Bibles and materials that are covered in dust. Do not forget the kids' rooms! Your teens don’t use children’s Bibles any more.
Your Church: Ask your Pastor if you can collect Bibles at church. Run an announcement in your bulletin for a while. Make sure you provide a collection box, and give people a couple of weeks after you stop running the bulletin announcement to make late donations.
Other Churches: Do you know of any other churches in your area? Coordinate your church's effort with the surrounding area's churches. The more literature you send us, the more we can send around the world.
Yard Sales: People will often give away Bibles if they know they will be used overseas.
Thrift Shops: Bibles do not sell well, so even non-Christian managers may discount. Try to arrange a monthly bulk pick-up, so they won’t even have to stock the shelves.
Library Sales: Libraries may have an annual fund-raiser sale of donated books. Bibles are typically not sold, and Sale Directors may offer then at a discount or free.
Advertise: Use that free newspaper classified ad or radio trading show as an opportunity to collect material.
Public Collection Point: For those who are really ambitious, consider a public collection , such as placing a container with an explanatory sign in a local Bookstore, Christian or otherwise.

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