I guess it started with the idea that if we really loved man we would go to people in their different neighborhoods and not just hope they would come to us.
It wasn't so much the idea of turning people into Christian Scientists but of meeting their needs right where they were and giving them new hope. So the idea of a bookmobile came, and the Clerk's Office of The Mother Church rented a 1970 Ford Econoline panel truck. It really proved out: we talked to hundreds of people, and many were touched by the Christ, Truth.
The bookmobile ran as an experimental project from the weekend before Annual Meeting through the middle of September. It was staffed with four people who were class-taught Christian Scientists. We went out Tuesdays and Thursdays from about five to eight in the evening and Friday and Saturday evenings all the way to midnight. We went to where the people were.
