Presses Use 152 Tons Of Paper Thursday, July 21, 2005

Voice Of God Recordings not only prints single sermon booklets of Brother Branham's Messages, but also prints many larger multi-sermon books such as Adoption, Demonology, and The Revelation Of The Seven Seals. These books contain two to twelve sermons each, and the same exact care goes into translating, editing and typesetting each sermon as does the single sermon booklets. By the time a multi-sermon book is ready for printing, it may have been "in the works" for many months.

These multi-sermon books require a different layout in prepress and a different setup on the web press that prints the text, so we group several of these together once or twice a year to make a "bound book" printing. After they are printed, the pallets of signatures and covers have to be shrink-wrapped, carefully marked, weighed and loaded into trucks for shipment to a glue binding facility. They are then put together, the covers are glued on, and the edges trimmed before they are boxed and shipped back to VGR.

The printing department has currently printed the following group of twelve bound books in seven different languages. The amount of material required for just this one printing project reached an astonishing amount. It took 314 printing plates, 66,800 sheets of cover stock, 245 rolls of text paper (seven semi-truck loads), plus ink, bundle boards, pallets, boxes, and banding material.

• A Prophet Visits South Africa - Afrikaans, Zulu
• Demonology - Afrikaans
• William Branham, A Man Sent From God - Zulu
• An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages - Chichewa, English, French, Romanian, Shona, Zulu
• The Revelation Of The Seven Seals - Chichewa, French

This single grouping of these larger books took several days or, in some cases, weeks in each of the print areas: prepress, cover printing, text printing and preparation by the bindery department to ship them out to be glue bound. If printed as single sermon books this same printing project would amount to 2,481,720 books! But just one soul reached with this Message, would make it worth it all!