I'd like to be able to run my Ministry on faith and fervor, but the truth is that the world doesn't work this way. Even if you're doing God's work, you must make sure that you can make ends meet. Faith sustains her, but not without a brain. A modern Ministry needs to cut costs wherever possible, in order to remain financially viable.
Lately, cheap books Christians was a big focus for us. We are working on a unit of literacy with the local community, and we wanted to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak. I thought that there was no better occasion to introduce people to the Gospel through Christian books for children. From buy cheap Christian books and then giving them to our candidates literacy, I hope I can inspire more people to consider conversion to Christianity.
A lot of what we get is donations from churches in the area. Many of them to get rid of dozens of Christian books used each year, trading for newer editions. We have always been a rather poor Ministry, so it is great to have a free or cheap supply books Christian churches that do not really need them anymore. Another great source is old garage sales. Most families have readers from Christian Sunday school classes in years gone by who are willing to part with very little. I found cheap Christian books, selling at garage sales for just one quarter.
Of course even with cheap Christian books, quality issues as much as quantity. You really cannot afford to buy reading Christian that doesn't give quite the right message. There are some cuts that have fairly radical interpretations of the word of God, and you really don't want to let these slip interpretations in his Ministry or church. Personally, I always make sure to read the Christian books cheap myself before I send it to all students.
Nowadays, Internet has opened a lot of new possibilities for ministries. Cheap Christian books are great, but putting your literature on Internet costs almost nothing. If you have some people in your church who are web savvy, you can set up a Christian reading room on-line where members can go to study, pray, contemplate and chat. Even if it doesn't work for ministries in remote areas and is not the best strategy for literacy campaigns, is ideal for study groups online. In our Church, the Bible study group is connected to an Internet site with the HTML versions of the steps that we are reading. It is quite great to see technology helping so many people in their faith. To me, that is what being a modern Ministry is all about.
