[Oe List ...] Salmon:Still a Resounding "Yes!"

[William Salmon]

Bev and I'll make the pledge--broken knee caps and all. The answer still is "YES!" Each month in 2011 it will be in a brown paper bag and sent to Bergdall. 
    Bill Salmon
PS: John Cock -- You know a "sucker" is a kind of fish, and a "fin" is what we'll pledge. The "$15,000" is "in the mail?" 
    wes
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Cock 
  To: 'William Salmon' 
  Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 5:19 AM
  Subject: FW: [Oe List ...] Salmon: Resounding "Yes!"


  Bill, you honor us with your trust. Now, ante up $15,000 to the EI/ICA by December 15 (;>). Read on, sucker. 



  Seasons' Greetings to thee and thine ... and thank you! 



   John and Lynda

  _______________________________

  Dear colleagues,

   

  The four of us propose we all begin to give more support to the resurgence of EI/ICA-USA. We can immediately begin by pledging to donate $25 a month or any amount of your choice, starting this month. As we've been brain-storming on the OE/ICA lists these last few days, we know what a difference EI/ICA/OE have made in our lives and in the world we have served together over the decades. We count our common mission then and now a special part of who we are and will be. 

   

  As you read in the recent ICA-USA Initiatives, during 2010, many more colleagues participated in emerging programs. Karen Snyder Troxel and Jan Sanders were facilitators for our Summer Youth Green Advocates Program. Chaired by Alan Gammel and Cheryl Kartes, the nine-member 50th Celebration Committee anticipates to electronically dialogue with 1,000 colleagues about visions for ICA's next half century. International Initiatives, spearheaded by Louise Singleton and Dick Alton, has connected with 14 ICA partners from other countries and Stanford University. The impact of the 38 Technology of Participation (ToP®) Certified Facilitators and 100 licensed ToP Trainers continues its strong impact in society.

   

  During the months of May through October, more than 80 of you colleagues worked on the Global Archives project with Marge Philbrook, Pam Bergdall and David Dunn - and much appreciated the restorations to the sojourner space on the 8th floor of Kemper and its new green emphasis. In July, more than 30 colleagues joined with students and faculty members of Oklahoma City University for an Oikos forum on Peace, Poverty and Planet Earth.  James Addington has been creating a youth Service Learning Program that will collaborate with national and local universities and nonprofits and bring many sojourners to the Conference Center (Kemper). Profound Journey Dialogue, built off of RS-I and as of this coming January a part of EI/ICA-USA programs, has held events with nearly 300 participants in the USA and is moving into phase II with an even more participatory guided-dialogue construct and calls to share it with global ICAs. 

   

  In all, we of the EI/ICA/OE community have so much to give to the world through our methods, programs, and personal and corporate service. In a new sense, now is the time for us to join together in program service and to support financially the mission of the Ecumenical Institute and the Institute of Cultural Affairs. We hope you will seriously consider an amount of your choice or $25, $50, or $100 a month donation during 2011, beginning this December.

   

  Grace and Peace . and Seasons' Greetings,  

   

  George and Wanda Holcombe      Lynda and John Cock

   

  P.S.  Checks can be sent to ICA-USA, 4750 N. Sheridan Rd. Chicago, IL 60640, or donate online at www.ica-usa.org.

   

  "The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope." -Teilhard de Chardin




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