Receipts and Mailing Lists

Along with her other ministry tasks, Karen spends every Friday at MMS receiving, recording, and receipting the donations received by the mission. Donations come in preferenced for each of the eighteen families serving here, donations come in designated for specific accounts, and some donations come in direct support of MMS organizational operations. Karen shares the job with Rena, the wife of our CEO. Rena normally works on Tuesdays. Last year MMS received over 7,800 donations of various sizes and shapes.

Karen also manages the MMS mailing list which currently comprises 6,700 families and individuals. She adds new lists in when families arrive, she removes old lists when families leave for the field, and she updates entries as contact information changes.

Fridays are always a bit more fun for me as Karen works in the office next to mine and we usually have lunch together. It seems to me that MMS is little brighter, the pressure a little lighter, when Karen's around. She helps me laugh at myself and to refocus on our Lord.

Can anyone ask any more of a wife?