This is the Process and Cost of Developing a
Real Life Stories Christian
Testimony Book When a Church Partners with Step by Step Ministries
The
process starts by teaching people how to write their testimony and placing it
into a 3-fold flyer, as pictured above. The Testimony is to be between
1000 and 1100 words and provided to us in a Word Document. We will provide
exact instructions as to how to properly prepare a testimony. This 3-fold flyer
can then be used with our books pictured below until such a time that person’s
story is in a book.
There
is a $25 charge per story to edit and layout the Discipleship
Resources in a 3-fold flyer. After editing, we send the file to the
church to take to a local print shop to make copies. When a church partners
with us, they can purchase and use our books at the very low price of $100
for 3 cases of books, plus shipping. There 60 to 70 books in a case,
depending on which books they are.
A New book will contain between 25 and 30
testimonies and have a total of 96 pages. This has proven to be the most
cost-effective book size to print and distribute. We will print 40,000 copies.
This is the quantity needed to keep the price down to a point of being able to
afford to freely give them away. The cost of 40,000 books, including typesetting,
editing, and cover design is about $16,000. This comes to about .40 cents per
book (plus shipping), making the book a very affordable tool for witnessing.
Just before the books are ordered, the local church pays their half, $8,000,
directly to the printing company. Step By Step Ministries pays the other
half, $8,000. When the books are printed, the partnering church is billed
for their shipping cost, which must be paid before the books ship. At that
time, 20,000 books are shipped to the partnering
Church, and 20,000 books are shipped to Step By Step Ministries.
When Step by Step Ministries receives their 20,000 books, we donate to 5000 of
those books to another ministry called Love Packages. Love Packages loads the
books on cargo containers and ships them to impoverished English-speaking
people in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean Islands. So when a local church
partners with us they not only reach the local community, they reach the World!
In addition to this, we have a Team of people using our books all over the
United States and Canada!
When a Local Church Partners with Step By Step Ministries, TOGETHER we fulfill
Acts 1:8,
But ye shall receive power, after the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall
be witnesses unto me both
in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of
the earth.
Disciple Makers,
Jim and Carla Barbarossa
Porter, Indiana
219-762-7589
Jimbarbarossa7@gmail.com
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