Greetings Saints & Angels! I wanted to write because it's been a
while since our last newsletter, and because I received a
notification from Yahoo that the group would be shut down if it
remained inactive for another seven days. Ouch!

Technically, it hasn't been inactive though, because new members are
joining every week, and the photos are also kept current. I just
haven't written anything as of late, mainly because the News & Forum
pages on Sara-Online.Net are all you need to stay up to date with
what's going on with Sara and her unofficial fan site. The
newsletters I've sent out thus far have mainly been a recap of what
everyone already knows if they read the board.

However, I will continue to send these out periodically because they
do help draw attention to a few matters that you might overlook if
you don't get a chance to read the board everyday. The posts come
in so quickly now that even if you miss a couple of days, it takes
30 minutes to catch up. :)

Two things I wanted to mention are that orders are currently being
taken for another batch of Saints & Angels t-shirts. Julie was nice
enough to handle the original order, and she has volunteered to take
care of a second printing. These are, of course, the shirts we wear
at concerts to help identify us as Sara's "FC within the FC," as
Sara put it. They bear the logo Joe designed last year, and the
photo Steve shot at the Blue Note in Columbia. If you've never seen
what the shirts look like, check out the photos on the S&A portal
at:

http://www.sara-online.net/saints_angels.html

You may contact Julie at julie@... and she will add your
name to the list.

Secondly, you've probably noticed the Amazing Grace III banner which
hangs atop the S&A Forum. The banner was placed there in response
to a request from a representative with EMI CMG, the group which
released the Amazing Grace album (which hopefully everyone has
purchased already). In exchange for placing the banner on our
board, we were promised some memorabilia. It arrived the other day
in the form of FIVE Amazing Grace III CD covers, each autographed by
Sara (the inserts only). The representative told me to do whatever
I wanted with them, whether that be keeping them or giving them away
in a contest of some kind. Well, obviously I'm not going to keep
ALL of them, but Tiffany did want one for the shrine. :)

So, now I have four left, and after soliciting feedback from many of
you on the board, I have decided how we'll go about giving these
away. We've never had any contests with prizes on Sara-Online, so
this is very exciting! I'm hoping to get a lot of people involved
over the course of the next few weeks as these are given away to the
winner of each contest.

I will be announcing the details of each giveway on the forum soon,
so be sure to visit the board every day. Also, if you haven't done
so already, go ahead and buy the Amazing Grace III album because no
one will be eligible to win unless they have bought at least one
copy. A link to the website is provided in the links section of
this Yahoo group.

Congratulations to Sara and Craig on their third child (due in
September), and on the success of "Suds in the Bucket" (now in the
Top 20!). From appearing on the 700 Club and the View to co-hosting
CMT's 100 Greatest Love Songs, Sara has not let pregnancy slow her
down one bit. The Saints & Angels have not slowed down either, as
is evident by the Sara-Online Flipbooks and photo files in this
group. Look for the Union flipbook, along with more photos of S&A
standing next to the sign in New Franklin very soon!

Until next time,
-Chuck