Hi,
I am sending this email to everyone on my contact list. 
As most of you know I am an ordained minister operating
 Contemporary Spiritual Arts and besides working with spiritual
recording artists and songwriters, a major facet of my ministry
involves working with prison inmates in the state of missouri
and it is this that i write to all of you about today.
 
I work with an organization called COPE (Congregation Offenders Partnership
Enterprizes) and we assist paroled inmates in successfully
re-entering society upon parole.  I have been working with inmates as a
spiritual correspondence partner for over fiften years.  COPE was founded in 1983
and together, we provide transitional housing for the first 9 months to a year
when an inmate is paroled.  "We create partnership teams from congregations all over
the st. louis area for each inmate.  the partnership team becomes this parolees extended
family and assists them in acclimating to freedom in ways you cant even begin to imagine.
 
do you know that the average return to prison (recidivism) rate for all paroled prisoners
is almost 80%.  thats because of the perceived need to return to crime in order to survive that
almost all parolees have upon release. 
 
WELL HERE IS SOME GOOD NEWS, SINCE 1983, WITH HUNDREDS OF CLIENTS AT COPE,
OUR RECIDIVISM RATE HAS BEEN LESS THAN FIFTEEN PERCENT.  OUR PROGRAM REALLY WORKS
AND THESE MEN AND WOMEN BECOME ACTIVE, PRODUCTIVE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.
 
Now, I am writing to you today because I have my 7th COPE partner, Jon Stacey, being released
on June 27, 2008.  John is 69 years old, has served 29 years in prison and is presently somewhat
disabled with arthritis.  Taking a bus everywhere would be difficult on him and a car would alleviate
that problem.  SO, I AM LOOKING FOR A CAR THAT RUNS AND IS STILL MECHANICALLY DEPENDABLE. 
 
If you have an older car you are thinking of selling, or know someone else who is thinking of
getting a new car, donating your car to my ministry might be very advantageous to you tax wise,
versus selling it or trading it in.
 
In return for your gifting your car or your friend gifting their car to my ministry I can offer a tax
credit letter which can be used in your 2008 tax preparations as a contribution.  This would be for
the highest possible retail value of the car.
 
Many of you who i am writing to are pulpit ministers.  i am asking you to make an announcement from
your pulpit or publish the need for a car donation in your newsletter.  i will be happy to fly anywhere
in the usa to pick this car up and drive it back to st. louis for jon stacey to use when he is
released on June 27, 2008.  If you aren't a pulpit minister and don't have a car you are thinking of trading
in, perhaps someone you know does.  Won't you please ask around for me.
 
I THANK EACH OF YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE IN MAKING THIS REQUEST A REALITY.
 
rev roy d. fisher
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www.csaministries.org
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