library - Our Journeys - Church Librarians Network2024-03-29T02:06:45Zhttps://churchlibrarians.ning.com/journeys/feed/tag/libraryBlue Valley Baptist Church, Olathe, KShttps://churchlibrarians.ning.com/journeys/blue-valley-baptist-church-olathe-ks2019-07-24T12:37:47.000Z2019-07-24T12:37:47.000ZMorlee Maynardhttps://churchlibrarians.ning.com/members/MorleeMaynard<div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;">Fay Hudnall is leader of the Blue Valley church library which has two locations—their main campus and their Ridgeview campus. She asked me to post their story.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> After losing every item in our Ridgeview campus church library due to water line breaks across the hall and above the library, the Ridgeview campus library of Blue Valley Baptist Church is completely back to the pre-flood condition! Whew! As I reflect on the past 18 months, I see God’s hand and direction through good and bad times.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> The insurance company never questioned our claim. Praise God for all of Bill Jones’s Concourse training of at our library conferences! The insurance company couldn’t believe the information we had about our books! All of the same titles were ordered as we had before...except we had permission to get updated editions of any title we had previously owned. Purchasing the same titles was a condition of our insurance company. Our local LifeWay store ordered about 50 percent of our titles and gave us the sale price of their promotion at that time! We received 30 percent off all adult books—nonfiction, biographies, and fiction. Our receipt was 30-feet-long.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> Our insurance company even covered some the supplies we had used in processing the books. Labels, tape, jacket covers, book covering materials, and label protectors were purchased with insurance money.!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> Our library team had just lost one of our precious members to a stroke a few weeks before the flood. Another passed away after an extended battle with a rare cancer that attacked her heart. Two others are still fighting disease, and two more of our team moved out of state. However, their love for Jesus is outliving their lives each time one of the items they helped process is checked out from our two libraries! I think one of the best lessons our library team has learned is that work for Jesus is never lost . . . and continues even if we are no longer present.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> During the past months, we had six new workers in our library! None of them were asked to join our team—they volunteered! Each one of them are dedicated, talented individuals! God provided each one of them! Our team worked very diligently getting the Ridgeview campus library back to its former condition as well as keeping our Antioch campus library going.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> Eighteen months ago, a dark cloud was hanging over our libraries and library team. However, joy has returned to our hearts and laughter fills our libraries. God is good...all the time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> Fay Hudnall</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></p></div>A Church Library Currently in Transitionhttps://churchlibrarians.ning.com/journeys/morlee-s-team-story-about-restarting-a-church-library-right-now2019-05-31T21:30:00.000Z2019-05-31T21:30:00.000ZMorlee Maynardhttps://churchlibrarians.ning.com/members/MorleeMaynard<div><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Back in January (2019) our pastor and staff started the process of assessing all the ministries of our church as to how each on aligns to the mission, vision, core values, and discipleship process of our church. They determined that our library ministry needed to move in the same direction our church family is going.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"> <strong>On March 27<sup>th</sup>, I officially became the library team leader with no team members. The first task was moving the collection to a new room being created by a building program. With the services of my Sunday School class, we prepared the collection for the move and made the move in four weeks. All of us have jobs and have daily commitments so most of our work was done on Wednesday evenings. The actual move itself had to be done in a few days so many of us readjusted our schedules in order to make it happen by the deadline. To God be the glory!</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"> <strong>Our next step was unloading the borrowed carts which made the logistics possible. That took three Wednesday evenings. Members of my Sunday School class plus a couple of others have continued to set up the space. Currently we are doing an inventory to confirm what items are on the shelves. We hope to finish the inventory during the next two Wednesday evenings.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"> <strong>Layered on top of these actions, we are also working out a new direction for this library ministry. We are dramatically changing the purpose and mission of the collection and the actions of the ministry. Our focus is on making disciples. As we finalize our concept, I will share our two-page description with you. We are very excited about what God is doing in our midst! Hopefully, we will have our grand opening on August 11 when our new building opens.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"> <strong>Grateful,</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Morlee Maynard</strong></span></p>
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