Activity Report

March 2013

Online literature downloads have increased Chapel Library’s potential worldwide usefulness. By God’s grace, our website saw eBook downloads top 1,900 and PDF downloads surpass 33,000 in January alone, and another 4,200 eBooks distributed through standard distribution channels like Amazon and the Apple store. This is an electronic distribution of almost 40,000 booklets and paperbacks around the world in a very cost-effective manner. In terms of our ordinary paper material, all of those downloads represent approximately 70 additional standard boxes of Christ-honoring literature going out in one month. These would be valued at about $25,000 in print, but cost only a tiny fraction of that through the medium of the internet. We praise the Lord for giving us these gifts of technology and the blessing to be useful to Him in this way. Thank you for your support this month, which makes this ministry possible

2012	2011	2010	2009
*Literature*
2,517	2,696	3,223	3,035	first time contacts
9,709	10,963	11,016	9,198	orders sent without charge
$96,542	$169,570	$117,193	$171,429	literature sent internationally
$272,223	$287,804	$276,198	$244,291	literature sent in the USA
2,461	2,451	2,792	2,274	new FGB subscriptions
21,004	19,980	18,7100	17,389	total FGB subscriptions
2,398	2,402	2,316	2,273	Studies in Scriptures subsc.
96	83	83	80	countries sent to
25	22	21	19	International Distributors
*Tapes*
3,327	5,363	6,015	6,735	free audio cassette tapes

*Prison*
1,291	1,622	1,445	1,732	free Bibles sent to inmates
5,385	6,222	6,493	8,355	free inmate literature packs
$15,523	$16,348	$19,022	$21,353	ref. books to inmates at cost
$96,542	$83,512	$101,068	$93,201	literature sent to chaplains

*Bible Institute*
1,589	2,182	2,287	2,963	new students
~944	~1,200	~1,500	~1,700	persons studying courses
118/34	114/31	121/32	113/32	graders/states
14,343	15,459	17,157	19,758	courses sent in North Amer.
6,699	10,864	6,084	16,336	courses sent internationally
35/23	34/21	33/19	32/24	branches/countries