The Well Ministries, Inc. is without financial guarantees or endowments from any organization. The ministry is a faith work, supported by and dependent on the continued faithfulness of God’s people. Financial support for the ministry comes through the interest and participation of churches and individual Christians. Receipts for tax purposes are given for all gifts.

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For the record: In 2006 we had a birthday party contest with prizes that were selected from those who left comments below.

Recently, Lou has been spending some time on-line at a place called “eBay,” which is an auction site. There he found a few trailers that were for sale. One of the trailers didn’t seem to have too high of a bid so Lou placed a bid on it. Later that same night the auction ended and we found out that our bid was the highest; thus we were the proud owners of a 5′ x 8′ trailer.

The person who sold the trailer was located in Ohio and offered to deliver it to us for a nominal charge, which we considered a bargain. Within two weeks he did so and we had the title transferred and purchased a plate and the following week it was in use.

We filled the trailer full; top to bottom, side to side, front to back. It’s hard to believe we fit all that stuff in our van before.

With the help of our printing business we were able to add the vinyl lettering to the side of the trailer that includes our name, location, and phone number.

All in all, the final cost was about $1,200.00 which was less than we anticipated. Currently we have received $170.00 in pledges towards the purchase of the trailer and the rest of the funds came from the general fund. Praise the Lord that we had just enough!

We are still accepting donations toward the cost of the trailer so if you want to help it is not too late. Just mark your donation for the trailer and we will apply it to the expenses.

October’s issue was a huge success! All 3500 copies were distributed in only two days! Every week I receive at least one request for some group or church to be added to the distribution list. At this point we may not be able to fill any more requests for free bundles. We have surpassed what we can afford to print. Unless some financial help comes, our “well” may experience a drought.

I have never yet made a plea for financial help but I feel you as subscribers should know what goes into this publication. Each month there is about $2,000.00 worth of printing. Now you might say that because we have our own printing business that it doesn’t cost us $2,000.00 to print it and that is true. But what you don’t understand is that in the time we volunteer doing this booklet each month we could have been doing a job that we could have been paid $2,000.00 for so therefore it does cost us that to print this booklet.

I know that God wants this booklet done and I know that He will provide the finances. But sometimes He uses people like you to help. Someone said to me that if each person would just give $1.00 for each issue they receive that would be a great help financially. That is very true. Even if you could help by giving $.50 for each issue that would cover the cost of the printing. Quite a few people have been able to give more than that and for those people I am thankful. Because of them we have been able to print as many copies as we have so far.

You should also know that our business has not received anything at all for printing this booklet. All the monies received (about $1,200.00 so far from donations and the magnet and bookmark clubs) have gone into a fund for the non-profit ministry that is being set up. The first $2,000 will go towards the fees for incorporation and registering the non-profit ministry. It will be an official, tax-deductible ministry.

I receive requests from people to submit their literature and poetry works for use in our publication. To add any more of these author’s works would mean increasing the number of pages in each issue. It is my heart’s desire to do this as well as to increase the distribution quantity. But both of these would increase the costs of each month’s publication.

Once we get the non-profit status we can then seek financial aid from other organizations and church mission budgets. You might not consider this publication as a missionary but it is. It reaches unsaved and backsliding people all over the United States and Canada. Then we will be able to increase the distribution amount.

One dollar each month is not much to ask. It’s what a cup of coffee or two cans of pop costs. Won’t you prayerfully consider helping us and being part of this ministry.