Greetings Pastors & Music Industry,

It is in grace and victory that we greet you today. Thank you in advance for considering to join forces with Grace Media Network and our October 2005 Campaign Literacy Awareness: The Right To READ® (CLA) to counter-attack illiteracy in our community and across this nation. In response to Hurricane Katrina: The Aftermath, CLA will direct a major portion of books collected to Minnesota Hurricane Katrina Relief (MnHKR).

In aid to evacuees' healing, CLA & you can do it again -- designate percentage of the new books collected to be signed by you with the thought of goodwill & healing, along with our prayer (Jer. 29:11) to assist them in rebuilding. "It is my (our & your) responsibility to strengthen the fabric of the nation one person at a time to insure fewer casualties during the aftermath of a time of crisis.

We didn’t know then, that your CLA efforts would turn into a missions assignment. Yet it did."

Official CLA Endorsed Resources/Books:

Network for the Development of Children of African Descent (NdCAD) (Endorsed Book Giving Program/Resource 10/2002 Mpls., MN)

Simply Phonics, Simply Reading© by Sylvia L. Brown (Endorsed Book 10/2002 Tulsa, OK)
Cherry Wood Finds A Home by Joyce Marrie (Endorsed Book/Reader 10/2005 Mpls., MN)

If you select to participate, your task is to endorse within your church -- your music arena and to the mass population your 2005 October CLA Book Drive and celebrate LIFE during literacy awareness. As a team -- your VOICE & CLA, we will succeed in our mission. Here are a few instructions to assist you:

·Please submit a statement of CLA endorsement and the impact of illiteracy within our Music Industry, Churches & General Population.
·Reserve advertising space to run your statement.
You may choose to designate a chairperson to coordinate and promote the onsite BOOK DRIVE launch (optional).
·List your event schedule: gms_client@hotmail.com.
·Schedule of Church Host Launch: Designated churches to host and introduce to their city the CLA launch and Book Drive will select a Sunday beginning on October 2 (or any Sunday in October that works best for your church programs).
·Schedule of Church Host Site: Participating churches in that city will select a Sunday beginning on October 2 (or any Sunday throughout October) to host CLA Book Drive.
· Schedule of Community/Business: Participating organizations will select the first Monday, October 3 (or any Monday in October that works best for your community relations programs).
· Inform us of your event & where you will donate or how you will utilize the collected books.
· Inform us of your existing literacy tutoring program, book giving program or your desire to launch a tutoring program.