Program areas at World Missionary Press
Production costs included printing a total of 95,701,814 pieces of scripture booklets, bible studies, god loves you coloring books, scripture-text datebooks, and foldup scripture handouts for free distribution worldwide. This includes printing 6,255,000 in 3 foreign countries this past year. Scripture bookets have now been made available in a total of 351 languages and 211 countries of the World. Because of our high-speed, high volume operation, using hundreds of volunteers, and paying modest staff, the average cost to produce a 48-page booklet was 4.7 cents.
Shipping costs include sending scriptural materials throught the World. Besides many small orders, including 17,434 10-lb boxes sent via usps, fed ex, and ups, 222,336 boxes were shipped by freight shipments, including 69 containers (40-40' containers and 29-20'). Costs for overseas distribution by volunteer national coordinators who receive wmp shipments and distribute to country distributors saves wmp hundreds of thousands of dollars every year in shipping and distribution costs. We currently have 88 volunteer coordinators in 83 countries and a countless number of distributors. Scripture literaure has gone into 211 nations in our our 62 year-history.