On July 23rd, I celebrated my fourth anniversary with American Vision. I serve as the Office Manager and Bookkeeper. When I started in 2004, American Vision had six employees—three full-time and three part-time. We occupied only 4,000 square feet of office/warehouse space. Today, there are twenty-one employees working in two buildings that stretch more than 18,000 square feet!

Consider just how far we’ve come in the past four years. When I first started, I had a tiny office, a rather dated desktop computer, and a typewriter. It took me about two days to get up the nerve to ask if I could move the typewriter out of my office. The response was an incredulous, “But how will you do envelopes?”, to which I replied, “In my printer.” “And what about labels?” “In my printer.” Within the next few weeks, I went around to everyone’s desk and showed them how to print envelopes through their computers. You would have thought I’d invented it! Since then, we’ve expanded from a couple of desktop computers and a typewriter to a video-production studio with broadcast quality cameras, two video-editing computer systems, a radio studio with ISDN connections to a satellite, a shrink-wrapping machine, a forklift, a digital color printing system, CD/DVD duplication equipment, and the list goes on and on. Though it is rarely used today, we still have the typewriter. Of course, the employees under age 30 don’t know how to feed the paper into it!

Our active customer base has grown from 5,500 to over 47,000 names. Our email address list has grown from 1,500 to 100,000. Our annual revenue has grown from $450,000 to over $2,500,000. If God allows, we may well exceed $3 million in 2008. We used to ship 25-30 orders per day. Now we ship an average of 200 each day. This means we are distributing more biblical worldview resources than ever before! American Vision from has grown from its very humble beginnings in 1978 to its present status as a major international ministry.

As you can tell, God has been good to American Vision. The rest of the staff and I never lose sight of the fact that we’ve catapulted forward only because of the support of people like you and the grace of God. And we don’t lose sight of the goal: a nation that honors the Lord and stands firmly on the principles established by our forefathers. Whether we’re writing, packing books, producing a radio show, or paying the bills, we press on, challenging the forces of darkness (humanism, evolution, atheism, liberalism, etc.) and defending the faith, all the while equipping and encouraging other Christians to do the same. The church of Jesus Christ will be a force to be reckoned with, when believers understand the battle and are engaged in cultural warfare. Sadly, so few are. That’s why the work of American Vision is critical.

I have been blessed to be a part of the staff and to meet many of American Vision’s friends and partners at various events across the country. Now the season of life has come where I need to commit full-time to home and hearth, helping to care for my elderly in-laws and spending more time with my grandchildren. Though I won’t be actively participating in the ministry on a daily basis, I will keep in touch, because I know from the inside that God has uniquely equipped American Vision to lead strategically in the culture war raging across this nation. For my grandchildren’s sake, it’s a war that must be won, and in God’s providence, I believe it will be.