There are lots of people who work behind the scenes to make God's Share Program what it is today. Recently we have added weekly volunteers which has been a HUGE blessing to me! You know the saying - many hands makes the work light. I found I just can't do it all by myself and do it well. Besides, it is so great to provide opportunities for others to bless the missionaries.
Meet our weekly volunteers.....
This is Kathy. She volunteers from home. She is responsible for making sure all the birthday and anniversary cards are sent out and on time!
This is Adrian. He gets our week off to a great start. He receives in all our donated inventory, making sure it receives an inventory number label. Adrian also stocks the shelves and packs boxes for shipment.
This is Barb, aka "Mom". She volunteers after work on Tuesdays. She helps fill out inventory forms and pack boxes for shipment. She also collects boxes from her workplace which saves her work place money in waste hauling fees and keeps GSP from having to spend money to buy boxes and/or time to find boxes. She is also our official box maker! No box the right size, she can make one. She is also working on making boxes to help display our inventory.
This is Marilynn. She helps input all the information from the inventory form into the database. This allows us to post our inventory on the website for missionaries to order from . It also gives us the means to provide donation letters/lists for those utilizing tax deduction for donated goods.
This is Amy. Amy also helps with data entry.Thanks to a corrupted database file we were forced to come up with our new numberical tracking system while this was a good thing resulting from a bad situation we have quite the backlog of inventory to log into the database. (The corrupted file was no one's fault. I think it stemmed from moving the information back and forth between 2 different computers.) Thanks to the donated computer you see in this picture we know have one computer designated for our inventory database. Now volunteers can work on data entry and I still have my main computer free to work on other GSP projects at the same time. Check out the two trays of paperwork in the picture. The top tray is all items coming in and the bottom one is items going out. All from the last 3 months!
This is Diane. I forgot to take her picture while she was busy packing boxes! Diane helps pack boxes for shipment and also helps with stocking the shelves.
I am so blessed to have all of these folks now helping me on a weekly basis. The first week I was so backlogged with projects that the M.O.D. where we worked was a mess! Now more and more packages are being shipped out on a more timely basis, the shelves are being stocked each week, and that means the M.O.D. is starting to take on an organized look! Soon we'll have all the data entry caught up (no pressure data entry volunteers!) and then we will post our new inventory to the website for all you missionaries to check out!
THANK YOU to every weekly volunteer AND to each and every person who helps GSP in ANY way!
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