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Sally arrives at the Western Tract Mission office close to 9 a.m., and is greeted fondly by the other correctors as they also come in. She and three other ladies have been working together each Wednesday for quite a while now and have become good friends.
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They quickly settle down to their routine - opening the Bible correspondence lessons that have been received that week and sorting them by the corrector that is responsible for each course.
By 9:30 a.m. Sally is seated at her desk going through the lessons that her students have sent in. This is her favorite part of the day. She quickly glances through each lesson, reading the additional comments that her students may have included. She finds the files for each returned lesson and enters all the pertinent data in them.
One of her co-workers glances up and realizes the time. They all quickly finish the task they are working on and go to the staff prayer meeting held each Wednesday at 10:00 a.m..
Sally always finds the prayer meeting a real time of encouragement. Together they have a devotional and then share and pray for requests. This time Sally tells the group about a difficult question one of her students wrote and asks them to pray that God will give her wisdom as she writes a reply later that afternoon.
After the prayer meeting Sally goes back to her correcting. She carefully reads each answer to make sure that her student understood the concept being taught. Where she can she adds comments, stickers or one of WTM's tracts.
Finally she can put it off no longer. This is her last lesson, the one with the question she requested prayer for. Sally works diligently on her answer, praying all the while. When she's done she reads the answer to the other volunteers. Someone has a suggestion and Sally is relieved. That was just the spot she was concerned wasn't clear. Sally rewrites the letter to her student and includes it with the corrected lesson and the next one for her student to work on.
Most of the other ladies are done by now. They break for a final coffee break with the other staff and leave for home.
Later that night, when Sally is sitting in her armchair reading her Bible and reflecting on her day she thanks God for the wonderful opportunity to touch the lives of her students for eternity.
[Fictionalized day based on interviews with several Correctors].
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