Since April showers bring May flowers, we’re expecting the city to be in full bloom by May 10, the day of the 10th annual Run&Walk 4 Life. Ten seems to be the magic number – on this 10th day of April, as online donations for the event have today reached and exceeded $10,000! ($10,139 to be exact.) If you have not yet set up a fundraising page and would like help in doing so, please call Erin at 314-783-3040 ext 224.
On four occasions during the remaining weeks leading up to the Run&Walk, Jamie Allman will be interviewing someone or a group of people from ThriVe on his 97.1 FM Talk morning show, Allman and Crane in the Morning. This week, it was our Best Choice peer speakers. If you’ve not already received a link to this energetic discussion, Click here to hear the interview!
The schedule continues on April 21, when Jamie will chat with our newest Board member, Rachel Mansfield. On April 28, a Pregnancy Resource Center client is scheduled to visit the show and on May 5, Run&Walk 4 Life event chairperson Rachel Porter will be Jamie’s guest. If you miss the on air interviews, you’ll be able to hear them on our website. From the home page, click on “About Us” and then on “Press” in the blue box in the lower right-hand corner.
Erin will continue to spread the word about the Run and our mission at the St. Louis University ‘Run for Their Lives’ on Saturday, another race event sponsored by the SLU pro-life committee. She’ll be hosting a table and presenting at Chatham Bible Church on Sunday. If your church, neighborhood, business, school or civic organization would like to learn more about our mission, please call me to request information or to schedule a speaker – 783-3040 ext 225.
We’re getting great response to our ‘spring cleaning’ mailing to churches. We sent letters to over 140 churches who have been active donors at some point in the past few years, asking for corrections and updates to the information we had in our database. As a result, we have renewed relationships with some churches that had been inactive since 2005.
The St. Charles chapter of Lutherans for Life has stepped forward with an offer to assist with the expansion of the St. Charles center. The group anticipates being able to help in a variety of ways!
Further, our cultivation of individual donors has proven fruitful this week, with several supporters pledging increased levels of giving in 2008.
And just to see if you’re paying attention – you can win four general admission passes to the Missouri Botanical Garden if you’re the first person to correctly answer my favorite springtime riddle…
“If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring?” Email your answers and enter as often as your wisdom allows!
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