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SPANISH READERS SERVICES CONTRACTOR

2ND  QUARTER REPORT 2008

 

Progress toward fulfilling services, obligations, and goals:

 

1.      Attended Infinito Congress:  No;

attended Expo Esoterica:  No;

made presentation at Latin American conference:  Yes;

participated in national radio talk show:  Yes;

participated in national television interview: Yes.

 

Comments: Presented in Costa Rica work meeting this quarter, visited the Tourism ministry to ask for financial aid to get a brochure done the minister said yes and a couple of weeks later the council cancelled the motion since it was asked from a private association also a radio show in Guatemala and the TV show made by Dimitri Benitez was repeatedly broadcasted the next two weeks this helped to reactivate a study group and open one in Coban near Guatemala City. The Expo Esoterica will be in july . Also there are some trips pending but only have one ticket already bought for Honduras.

 

 

 

2.      Provided one case of 6 books to 3 of the 10 primary states in Mexico?  Provided 200 Copies of “Urantia Book Basics”? Spanish Provided 10 of “Young Child’s Guide to the Urantia Book”?  Provided 12 of “When Things Go Wrong”?  Provided 12 of “21 Steps to a Spiritual Awakening”?  Provided 30 “Study of the Forward”?

 

 

  Comments: I could send more UB Spanish this quarter due to the help of the pipeline fund for shipping books inside Mexico, In case is approved I continue shipping them,will need at least 30 shipping coupons per quarter around 400 US that will do with the regular requirements of emails UB requests . I need more timeline Jesus posters I ran out of them.    

 

 

3.      Is the “Guide to Developing and Maintaining Study Groups” completed?   No .  If yes, it has been distributed to (how many) ______ of the 3 study groups throughout Central and South America.

 

 

Comments: I have used that time in supporting the creation of the local and national associations which will help to further the revelation work, we have at the moment Associations in Costa Rica in Central America and Ecuador will get the approval next month in South America still in progress, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Peru and Venezuela.

 

4.      __www.UrantiaEcuador.org______ is the targeted country added this quarter, the site is ready to be launched just waiting for instructions how to upload to www.ellibro.org .

 

Comments:This month Neptali Mena worked in developing the www.UrantiaEcuador.org website, it seems he finished last month but could not buy the domain. Ecuadorian readers will contribute to keep the website updated. The Nicaragua readers are still developing their website and Forum.

 

 

 

5.      1562  from April to June 2008  is the number of Spanish language inquiries responded to in a timely and appropriate manner.

 

Comments: This has been the most time consuming of all activities as usual, this quarter deeper questions and comments came in the emails from longtime readers and leaders who are willing to go deeper in their personal study of the Revelation. If I had a full time will be able to develop more materials for the regional leadership.

 

 

 

6.      0 is the number of Spanish readers added to the data base in the Fellowship’s IT format.

 

Comments: I have not added readers because have been working in updating their data IO almost have finished the task and as soon as it is ready will add them t the data base.

 

 

7.      Activities participated in this quarter: Working meeting in  Costa Rica in San José, Follow up in  San Salvador, El Salvador. International Book Fair in Buenos Aires Argentina, CN8 and RR # 24  in Ahuatepec, having to pay an extra amount of 1200 US due to last hour cancellations of many of the readers already confirmed.  A week in Mérida and Campeche starting study groups, presenting ‘Lo Basico’, as well as invited to 2 radio shows for the same presentation, A two-day meeting with government officials in Mérida having finished an agreement to get the UB in every federal and state library in this state, they asked 159 El Libro, by now we already have distributed the first batch and now preparing for a lecture tour for those librarians already in possession of the UB, I am preparing material as a guide for them.

 

 

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Upcoming activities:  July a trip to Nicaragua CN2   July 28th  Aug 03rd , Honduras CN2 August 2008 X4UQ8A, República Dominicana CN1 September 2008, have only funds for the Honduras trip since have already the ticket but need to update it in order to use it.

 

 

 

9.      Progress made on coordinating the production, marketing and sales of “Diccionario de Cosmologia y Teologia segun El Libro de Urantia” is 80% OF PROOFREADING_

 

 

10.  Distributed 36 El Libro de Urantia and documented names, location, and dates in the shipping report made to Buck and Michelle.

 

Besides the UBs and secondary works I have copied CD`s and DVDs with material for the study groups in Mexico, Central and South America. I have done most of the time 50 CD’s and 30 DVD`s per month, for the next quarter will go 33 Cds and 16 DVDs per month. Need more time to do all the pending tasks since the hours included do not help to complete all the tasks per month.  As for Spiritual Vitamins I have done 4410 per month and now have done packages of 365 vitamins namely, one per day with this production can do 12 packs per month, a family is cutting and rolling them the monthly charge is $140 US and I print them and provide the blue tape. Translation and updating of other translations goes behind schedule for 2008, but adde3d a new presentation, this month of June finished the audio versi0on of Lo Basico, it was $1200 US for the job and started audio version of Historia sobre todo, audio.