A Hot Day in Cool Edmonds!
It's hard to keep up with Izzy Marvin, but Greg Palmer, our committee member from First Church Seattle was willing to try, while Haley Hill is away on a short vacation. Izzy and Greg chose to go to Edmonds for our "Compass the City" Monitor outreach project because it was supposed to be 10 degrees cooler than Seattle. It turned out to be an extra hot day in Edmonds for placing gift subscriptions, breaking all previous records!
As usual, the first stop in Edmonds was the CS Reading Room, where they met Librarian Holly Bucannon.
They then proceeded to have a HOT HOT HOT day for finding willing recipients for Monitor gift subscriptions, by far our best day yet -- 9 yesses (at cafes, a barber shop, nails and beauty shops, a florist, restaurants, and an art museum) plus 15 maybes to be followed up with later. Either Edmonds was especially ripe for harvest, or our outreach team has now achieved a new level of focus and mastery, or both.
We are in the 5th week of a 7-week project of active full-time outreach giving out sample copies and gift subscriptions to the CS Monitor. Our regular outreach workers, Izzy Marvin and Haley Hill are both Juniors at Principia College, here for the summer to do this work.
Do you know good candidates for gift subscriptions in your area that we missed? Your barber, hair stylist, or accountant? Your local car repair shop, homeless shelter, or senior center? Feel free to offer to them yourself. If they say Yes, send the business name and address, plus the name of the person you spoke with to CSLitDist@gmail.com by Aug 16, and we'll add them to our "bulk" subscription order. We are especially trying to place the Monitor in high-exposure locations, such as businesses that have waiting rooms or employee break rooms, nonprofits and community leaders, but it could be for anyone interested. Our goal is 150 gift subscriptions, which will give us a bargain bulk rate. We have ample funding to pay for these as part of this grant-funded outreach project. These are 1-year subscriptions of the print Weekly magazine, starting in about late September. They can later add the e-mail daily edition and unlimited website access anytime by calling or emailing CSPS.
HUGE kudos to our outreach team for persisting through the heat, working hard day after day to introduce people to Christian Science through our wonderful ambassador, The Christian Science Monitor! Congratulations to the team for their record-breaking hot day in cool Edmonds. Stay cool, everyone!