Wallkill

Today we toured Wallkill Bethel. It was amazing! A brother named Jonathan did our tour. We went through printery one and two and it was great to be able to see them. They are huge!!! He also showed us the book binding and putting together process. Not only did we see that, but we also saw how they pack and ship the publications and we saw the new packing process that they are using. Jonathan explained how the brothers are becoming more and more resourceful and more frugal whenever possible. It was wonderful to see how Jehovah’s spirit operates through the organization. We had lunch with Jodie Martin. We ate fish, potatoes, carrots, corn, salad, and for dessert we had delicious blueberry cobler.


Some Interesting Facts:

-50,000 Bible Teach books are produced each month since the new arrangement of having a special day per month just for making Bible studies.

-One copy of each of the publications is specially made and sent to the Library of Congress.

-All the CDs/DVDs are produced at an outside company.

- The presses (when running at top speed are) produce 94,000 magazines per hour. The new brochures that were printed at Wallkill were produced at 80,000 brochures per hour. They had to slow the presses because the paper is much thicker than magazine paper and they needed more time to let the ink settle.

-The publication orders are sent to the congregations starting from west coast to the east coast of the country the reason that is done is so that the congregations recieve there literature at approxamitely the same time.

-Beef, corn, grapes, blueberries, and apples are grown directly at the farm.

- It takes 14 seconds to make a congregation order of 350 magazines. On March 1, 1973 the 1st issue of the Watchtower was printed in Wallkill. A magazine paper role is 14 miles long, weighs 3,800 lbs. and lasts 25 minutes in the press. The laminator produces 60 sheets per minute or 28,000 pocket size book covers per hour. The ink barrels that are used to pump ink to the presses contain 300 gallons of ink and last about a week.

Here are just some fun trivia questions of facts that I found interesting. I will post the answer tomorrow morning.

1Who wrote the first inspired words of the Holy Scriptures "I am Jehovah"- Exodus20:2?

A. Moses

B. Joshua

C. Jehovah

D. Job

2 In the Ten Commandments written on stone “by God’s finger,” the divine name Jehovah appears how many times?

A. 6 times

B. 3 times

C. 8 times

D. 9 times

3. The printing press that will start printing magazines in the Canadian branch will out produce the Wallkill Branch's press by how many magazines per hour?

A. 500

B. 2,000

C. 6,000

D. It won't change at all.

To see a few of my pictures, click on the Wallkill tab at the top of the blog.  To see all of the pictures for the day play the slideshow above.

This is the Wallkill sign.