July 15, 2011

Dear Living Grace Friends and Supporters,

We praise the Lord for His guidance and provision in the past 11 years, with your prayer and support, Living Grace has grown to become a strong source of help and healing to many families, especially to those low income families that are in need of counseling services.

For the past few years, our Board of Directors, Staff members and volunteers have pondered on how to further our Christian counseling ministry so that more churches and families can be blessed, and that God's love can be manifested.

After close to two years of prayer and discussion, we have decided to adopt the plan to join into Chinese Christian Herald Crusades (CCHC)-Southern California District to become the "Herald Family Center-Living Grace Counseling Ministry", effective on Jan. 1, 2012. This new organizational structure can help to utilize our resources more effectively, and it can also bring Christian counseling services to a better state of development in California and in the whole nation. During our upcoming Thanksgiving and Fundraising Dinner on 9-25-2011, we are going to announce further details of the plan. The theme of the event will be "Review, Reform, Renew; Soar High on Wings!" We earnestly invite you to come to witness this special development, and celebrate with us for what our God has done and will do through this ministry.

We still need to raise $130,000 by the end of 2011 in order to keep our services uninterrupted and to keep our "Low-cost" counseling services available. Through the partnership with CCHC, our counseling staffs have already started serving clients at their San Gabriel office. We hope to expand our service locations to Rowland Heights and San Diego by the end of this year. With your partnership, we know we can reach this goal!

In the past 10 years, by the grace of our Lord, we have helped many people to rebuild their lives. Many of them may not be able to get help elsewhere due to financial and language difficulties. We pray that you can read our newsletters and visit our website at www.lgrace.org to learn the many stories shared by service recipients and staff members.

We hope that through this partnership with CCHC, Living Grace can do even more to bring hope, help, and healing to people that are hurting, and witness to them the love and grace of our Lord Jesus.

In His grace,
Sam Ng, LCSW
Ministry Director and Chair of the Board of Directors.


A. Please Use the following Donation Methods to Support Living Grace:

1. By Check:
Please make check payable to "Living Grace C.C.C.M." and mail to P.O. Box 1259, Monterey Park, CA 91754.

2. Online Donation with Credit Card:
We use Google Checkout and Paypal services to process the credit card donation transactions.

The steps for making donation online with Google Checkout:

a. Log on to wwww.lgrace.org and go to the "Support Us" page

b. Click the "Contribution" button and type in the amount that you want to donate in the little box next to the Google Checkout icon.

c. Click the Google Checkout icon, sign in with your existing Google Account and submit the transaction. It will show you the amount being donated to Living Grace on the following page.

d. If you need to sign up for a new Google Checkout account, you'll need to provide your existing email address which you are using to go online, and then pick a password you like. You can create a different password other than your regular online password.

e. Once your new Google Checkout account is created, you can fill in the credit card information and all the required data to process the transaction.

f. An email will be sent to your email address from Google Checkout to confirm the transaction.

3. Donate your old car through Cars4Causes:

Please log on to www.cars4causes.net to learn how we can benefit from this organization when you donate your vehicle. You can call 1-800-766-2273 and tell the Cars 4 Causes Donation Representative that you would like Living Grace Christian Community Counseling Ministry to receive a portion of the proceeds when the vehicle you donate is sold. We will receive 70% of the gross sale amount of the vehicle, minus the tow charge. We will send you the donation receipt of the amount that we received from Cars 4 Causes.

B. Please Consider Supporting Living Grace on Regular Basis:

1. I pledge to support Living Grace in Year ___ 2011, ___ 2012, ___ 2013.

2. I pledge to send in donation ___ once, ___ twice, ___ three times, ___ four times in a Year.

3. I pledge to donate ___ $500, ___ $1,000 ___ $2,000 ___ $3,000 ___ $5,000 ___ $10,000 Other amount: __________

2011 Projected Annual Budget: $220,000;

Fundraising Goal for 2011: $130,000

Special items that need your monthly donations:

1. Monthly rent for 2 offices: we need $3,500.
2. Free telephone and face to face consultation help: $1,500 per month, can benefit 75 families.
3. Lower counseling fee to help low-income families: $3,000 per month, can benefit 25 families, each can receive up to 4 sessions of help.
4. Post Disaster Mental and Spiritual Health Rebuilding Project: each $1,000 can help to send a trained counselor to Sichuan for 2 weeks of mission.
5. Retreat camp for church pastors and their families: each $1,000 can help to serve 20 pastor families.

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