Joseph has given me his printer and supplies and has connected me with a man who is helping update the mail merge process. Originally, the system was set up in Excel with Visual Basic, which would pull up the newsletters one at a time in Publisher via a macro and merge the info from Excel and print them out. There are 167 newsletters and this feature is an important part of the process as it would take quite a lot of leg work to open each newsletter individually, merge, print, label, staple, fold, seal stamp and mail. With over 250 subscribers and the possibility of the ministry growing rapidly (2015-2016 our mailing list doubled) we really need a solution that can minimize the effort needed to get these newsletters out. It might behoove us to find a programmer who may be able to help write some Visual Basic and create a macro in Access which will handle these tasks. Worst case scenario is that we hire a programmer to pay for these expenses or we search out an existing software solution, but this will require provision from the Lord. Either way we would appreciate your prayers asking Yahweh to provide a way for this ministry to move forward and grow should it be His will.
