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To help us reach every home in Canada for Christ, our Tract Clubs do the
mailings and the ultimate follow up. We use postal codes to mail systematically
through the rural parts of our country. Ten years ago we began in Newfoundland,
now we are in northern Alberta.
An Impact Canada Tract Club is formed when a group of friends, or a family agree
to do this, and at least one of the group applies, and is accepted for membership
in the Mission.
The people in the club decide how often they will meet to bundle up tracts, and
where. They may take turns hosting the meeting. They take on the responsibility
of paying for the postage of the mailings they prepare, so they must agree on
the number of homes they want to reach in each mailing. (Some send to as few
as 50 and some to as many as 1000). The Mission member lets us know these
details at the office.
We get all the tracts, envelopes, response cards, Post Office forms, mail tags,
and elastics ready for you. We then mail you all these tracts and supplies for
when you meet with your group.
Ahead of your meeting you will need to get a bag from the Post
Office, in which to put the bundled mail.
When you meet with your group, you might start with a devotional
brought by anyone in your group, or bring someone in as speaker. You could pray
for the Western Tract Mission, for the towns that you are sending the tracts
to, and personal requests. You could sing songs if you want, or as the Lord
leads you to do. Also collect donations to cover the postage of the tracts
your club will mail.
Stuff the colourful envelopes with one tract of each kind, and one folded
response card . Then you close all the envelopes, and count them into bundles
of 25. If there are less than 25, just bundle them up as well. Put them into
the post office bag. Then you may wish to serve refreshments, and that would
end the club meeting.
Take the closed envelopes in the post office bag, to the Post Office. Take
along the postal forms as well as the mail tags, that we filled out for you,
and the postage money you collected.
After your Tract Club meeting write on a piece of paper the amount every couple
or individual gave towards the mailing. Send it into the office, and we will
send each one a receipt for their donation.
If you have any questions call Helen Klassen at the office -
(306)244-0446 We hope you enjoy your Tract Club!
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