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Dear Tuchy:
Before I write a more lengthy message of thanks and
information, I hasten to speed to you this thank you for your gracious copy of
the Little Red Book. It is a winner, and so are you.
I’m going to send you information on our conferences
in Oahu, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Southern California. And we hope you
will attend one or more, particularly the events in Orange County May 14-21. We
want to meet as many as possible personally and at length, and also to have
them participate in the workshop format on May 18 and 19 at His Place Church in
Westminster. There is a wide variety of participation in the growing
International Christian Recovery Coalition. Some are counselors. Some are
professors. Some are physicians. Some conduct treatment programs, residential
treatment facilities, detox, intervention, after care, and sober living. Some
are professional counselors. Some are simply ambassadors who distribute books
free. Some are Christian Recovery Resource Centers handing out community
information. Some are clergy. Some pastoral or recovery pastors. Some are with
social agencies. Some in the Salvation Army. Some with large organizations like
Alcoholics Victorious and Overcomers Outreach, Inc. and the Came to Believe
Retreats. Some are conducting or starting up listed, conference-approved groups
and meetings. Some have large Christian recovery fellowships. Some counselor
training and certification. Some are A.A. and N.A. leaders and speakers. Some
historians. Some archivists. Some garden variety successful recovered drunks
and addicts who like history, like God, and like helping others.
If you can grace us with your being one of the sponsors of
the conference, have a display table, share in what you are doing and want to
do, and enable us to have at least one copy of several of your important books
like Twice-Born Men, Life Changers, Twice Born Ministers, Children of the
Second Birth, The Conversion of the Church, and When Man Listens, you will be
opening eyes to books I have been talking and writing about for years, that
many have never seen or read, that many don’t know are available (especially
through your reprints now), and that many will want to use in their Old School
Christian Recovery groups, meetings, programs, and outreach. You have much to
offer and hopefully much to learn.
We would also appreciate your becoming one of the listed
sponsors – as you are named, as your ministry is named, your books are named,
your bio is presented, and your contact information is available. A
donation of $500 would be appreciated, and in any event we will publicize your
sample books widely at the conferences – all of t hem, on our sites, blogs, and
forums, and in our talks.
We would like very much to have on display several of your
key books which are very important to our First Century Christianity Recovery
at Work theme. And your Shoemaker items are particularly relevant since he
often wrote about A First Century Christian Fellowship, not only as the Oxford
Group, but as part of his work.
I hope to have my son Ken send you some materials and that
he or I can talk with you by phone very soon.
Many thanks again.
God bless,
Dick B.
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