Omaha couple runs Catholic lending library from their home

Published: 2006-03-30

OMAHA, Neb. (CNS) -- What started out as a small book exchange from one friend to another has become a worldwide library of sharing for Roger and Judy Elliott. More than 10 years ago, the Omaha couple loaned one of their own Catholic books to a friend they met while making home visits for the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Today they run the Most AMYable Roman Catholic Lending Library, a nonprofit corporation and lay apostolate, from their Omaha home. "We discovered early on that the need was not just food, shelter and clothing, but there was also a spiritual dryness that was out there that we did not expect," said Judy Elliott, who named the library after her daughter, Amy, who died in 1991. The Elliotts have collected nearly 7,000 books, including several out-of-print books, and almost 3,000 magazines, audiotapes and videotapes that reflect church teachings on faith and morals, the saints and Marian apparitions.

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