Dear Friend of CRI,
I never imagined having to send an urgent memo
like this to you.
A bizarre error by the U.S. Post Office has
cost the Christian Research Institute and Bible
Answer Man broadcast an unknown amount of income
-- at a time when we could least afford it.
We don’t know how much we lost, but we know it
was substantial --perhaps in the hundreds of
thousands of dollars. Here’s what happened .
. .
Over the last three months, a time when our
ministry receives 17 percent of its yearly income
from supporters, newly hired U.S. Post Office
employees in Rancho Santa Margarita accidentally
routed CRI envelopes with contributions and
requests for materials to the wrong post office
box. To make matters worse, the business to
whom the envelopes were sent threw many of the
envelopes into the trash!
Only by God’s grace did we discover this error
before more damage was done. Praise God for
His intervention!
Our local U.S. Post Office has accepted full
responsibility for this error and has fixed the
problem. You can be assured that all mail is
now being handled correctly! We bear them no
ill will and believe this was an honest mistake by
novice postal employees. But much has been
lost.
Here is what I’m asking you to do:
First, if you sent a gift in November or
December and did not receive a receipt (or an
ordered product), please call a special hotline at
our ministry, 800-228-1563, to see if your gift or
product order ever arrived.
Second, please help us catch up! If at
all possible, please send a sacrificial gift to
help CRI and the Bible Answer Man broadcast keep
ministering at the high-impact level to which we
are committed. Gifts of $50, $100, or $200
are especially needed, but any amount will help.
Third, please pray that we indeed will keep
helping everyone we can at our typically high
volume. Our ministry impact continues to be
strong despite this unexpected challenge! I
believe God will continue to bless us, but He
works through the prayers of His
people.
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