And it begins

Here we go, the fund raising letters are now being sent. I agonized over what to include in the letter and what to leave out. I wanted it to only be one page long, so people would read the whole thing. If I put everything into it that I wanted, it would have been 5 pages long and I'm guessing most people I sent it too would loose interest after the first page. I'm passionate about my missions, so I may tend to bore people with the details. I'm reading a book now about South Africa, that is a bit dated, but gives a lot of history of apartheid and race relations. As I read it, I find it hard to believe that people were treated in the way that native Africans were treated by the European settlers. I know the US doesn't exactly have a stellar record on how we treated people (African Americans, American Indians), so I guess I shouldn't be so shocked. I hope to find a few more current books to tell me how things are going now. I'm looking for websites as well and will post them on this site when I do. I'm also including the letter I'm sending out, just in case someone happens upon this site and wants to see it. Thanks to everyone who has passed along their encouragement, it means a lot. A big thanks to Marcy for helping me not sound like an idiot, in the letter that is, she can't help me on this blog:) She is my number one supporter and has worked as hard as I have to get this thing rolling.