Horace Burks is a deacon in the Sycamore Church of Christ in Cookville, Tennessee. He has a burden to reach every home in the United States with the Christian gospel. Horace has developed an eight-page brochure in a comic strip format to mail to 102 million homes. It will be sent bulk rate and will cost about $10 million!

I applaud Mr. Burks' motive, but there is a much better method. Person-to-person is one hundred times better than a bulk mailing and a lot more cost effective. Of course, the person-to-person method takes the cooperation of lots of people while bulk rate mailing can be done by a few.

Just think--there is a united Methodist church in every county in the United States. If each of our 8.7 million Methodists would share with twelve persons a personal word about Jesus, every ho…