Gracious Promise Foundation

• Spoke with a great "Stephen's Ministry" group at Heritage Methodist Church last evening. It's was awesome to see… http://fb.me/xPsYapoO #
• Yesterday while at lunch, our we were delighted to receive excellent service from our waitress. We're proud to… http://fb.me/xTDPtxgH #
• We were blessed to have Raechelle visit yesterday. If you remember Raechelle worked at the front desk several… http://fb.me/xTljt7Vl #

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It’s amazing what a few days of slightly warmer temperatures and sunshine will do. The word “spring” begins to lurk around the tip of our collective tongues. With that in mind, Gracious Promise would like to propose a new idea for your spring cleaning.

Do you have electronic devices around your house that you don’t use? Maybe you upgraded your cell phone this winter or your kids have got a Wii and aren’t using their Gamecube anymore. Selling these at a garage sale doesn’t provide much return, Ebay or Craigslist can be a hassle, and finding a recycling center can be almost impossible.

One of our staff uses a service called Gazelle to get rid of his old gadgets. Gazelle’s site asks you to enter the name and condition of your gadgets and then provides a price quote based on market value. It also shows you the market trends of the device’s value over time so you can even wait to sell if the value is increasing or sell quickly if it’s decreasing. Once you agree to a price, Gazelle sends out a free shipping box for you to return. Once they receive the item and confirm its condition, they will send out (based on your preference) a check, gift card or credit your paypal account.

So what does that have to do with Gracious Promise? Well, Gazelle also allows charities to do gadget drives. So you may go to our gadget drive page and the money from any gadgets you submit will be donated to Gracious Promise. We are holding a drive to raise $3000 between now and May 1st. We hope you’ll consider supporting this cause. Our Gadget Drive site is here:

http://gracious.gazelle.com

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We have just added a page where you can see some basic statistics on Gracious Promise’s services for 2009 and 2010-to-date. Click here to view them: http://daytum.com/gracious

We hope this will give you access to some quick information about how hard we work to serve our clients. we will be adding more categories over time.

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• Congressional leaders take on recidivism & correctional spending: http://www.justicereinvestment.org/ #fb #

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Dear Friends,

Everything is coming together in preparation for the upcoming auction of Grandma’s House. The house is not only beautiful, but it is a record of the lives of little children who have been touched by love in action. Please accept my heartfelt thanks. Your reward is coming!

We invite you to the auction event this Friday, October 16th. The bidding will begin at 1:00 p.m.
Grandma’s House Auction Brochure (Download PDF)

We are selling the property in order to liquidate our only asset. This will allow us to continue services at Gracious Promise Foundation beyond the current economic climate. Our incoming financial donations have declined over the past two years. When we free up these funds, we will be able to retain the remaining staff and keep up with budget items such as utilities, taxes, insurance, etc.

In a time where our services are needed even more, we also need your continued prayer and financial support.  Thank you to those who have given sacrificially so that we can offer hope of housing, employment, medical assistance, education, clothing and food.  Last week Jerod, a Boy Scout designated his Eagle Scout project efforts toward the homeless offenders recently released.  We are proud to say that he collected and organized volunteers in packing 152 large bags of hygiene items.

Thank you for extending your hands and love to Jesus. He sees your efforts and compassionately states “I was in prison and you came to visit me!”  - – Matthew 25:36

Touching Through Him,

Shirley A. Miller
Executive Director

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• The Kansas City Star on Michael Vick, ex-offender re-entry and public safety, what's it worth? http://bit.ly/13XGac #
• Prison cutbacks in Kansas threaten public safety: http://bit.ly/sft5p (via http://bit.ly/pmDKR ) #

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• Our summer newsletter went out on Friday and should hit your mailbox soon. It's also available for the curious on http://graciouspromise.org #
• A new publication- Kinship Care When Parents are Incarcerated – was just put online by the Annie E. Casey Foundation http://bit.ly/3pduLO #

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• A camp in Northern California serves children of offenders: http://rfly.me/62 #childrenofprisoners #
• By the way, if you're interested in more about Camp Avary, you can find them here: http://projectavary.org #
• New proposed bill in Congress suggests a housing tax credit for ex-offenders: http://rfly.me/6M #

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On May 21st, 2009, GPF will be hosting our annual Golf Tournament at the Deer Creek Golf Course. Entrance fees are $100 per player and will include green fees, cart and lunch. Last year we had a great time and received a positive response from all who attended. We have set a goal of 100 players for this year’s event.

Check-in will be at 12:30 and the Shot-gun Tee-off will be at 1:30. We’ve set up a a Paypal checkout for those of you who would like to pay online (no paypal account required). You can simply select your team size and click “Buy Now”. (This doesn’t charge anything to your card, later on it’ll ask you for information and you can confirm everything before buying) The “Buy Now” button will take you to Paypal and there will be a line directly below “Golf Tournament Admission” that says, “Please list your player’s names below:”. If you click on that, it will allow you to enter the names of your teammates. We’d appreciate that information. If that part of the form won’t work for you, please just email billy@graciouspromise.org and I’ll associate the payment with you or your team.

*Edit* – We had a great time at the Golf Event last week. Thanks to all that attended. We will be working to get a date scheduled for next year as soon as possible, because we know your calendars fill quickly. Thanks again to all who made the Tournament a success.

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There’s a lot happening at the Dream LOUD Clubhouse in Lansing, and now you can see photos and hear about things happening week by week at the Dream LOUD website. Dana and the Dream LOUD volunteers are starting their fourth year working with children whose fathers are currently at Lansing Correctional Facility.

You can get there from our Programs section or click the following link: http://dreamloud.graciouspromise.org

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