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Greetings Again Dear Friends and Family:
Almost everyone knows someone who is struggling with chemical dependency. Drug and alcohol addiction ravishes families, it destroys lives...and despite all we know about how dangerous and damaging it is...the problem continues to grow. Satan continues to use this tool effectively to keep people from knowing Jesus and destroying lives and families. Marilyn and I continue to pray for 23 people we know personally (or know of) who continue to struggle with different stages of either addiction or depression and alienation from family as consequences of their abuse. Most heartbreaking was the methamphetamine overdose death of the daughter of two of our dearest friends in February of 2021. But there is still hope for recovery that is centered in Jesus!
I still feel a little out of place about asking for donations (although I do enjoy playing a round of golf, I learn much humility by playing it) but also feel even more compelled to do so when I know where these dollars are going and what they will do.
I am again single handedly sponsoring a foursome of golfers for the Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge Golf Tournament that will be held at The Pines, Grandview Lodge in Nisswa, MN on Friday, July 15, 2022. I will be doing my best to impersonate a golfer along with my son-in-law, Nathan Schukei, my daughter Kathryn’s fiancée; Nate Franko and his father; Ken.
In addition to the entry fee (which is a donation) I am trying to help raise additional funding for MnATC, which is an amazing Christian drug and alcohol treatment and recovery program that has been in operation since 1983. They serve people ages 13-74 years with 12 locations throughout the state with a full range of services including long-term recovery and short-term intensive treatment programs. Additionally, MnATC has an extensive prevention program, “Know The Truth” that speaks in more than 160 high schools and middle schools across the state (including Waconia) sharing personal stories of addiction with students to help prevent substance abuse. MnATC is a program that also works to instill the Gospel and Biblical based counselling to its clients and, by the blessing of the Holy Spirit, its graduates have enjoyed a success rate of 80% (of graduates with 0-1 relapse, mostly 0).
Please consider partnering with me to raise funds again for this great cause. Every dollar donated goes straight to Mn Adult and Teen Challenge and is 100 percent tax-deductible. To make a donation online to our team, click on the DONATE NOW button. You can also donate with checks written to Mn Adult & Teen Challenge. Send these checks to me and I will get them to Teen Challenge.
Whatever you can give will help - it all adds up! Even $10 or $20 helps!
You can learn more about what Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge is doing to save lives by visiting their website: mntc.org/
May Jesus Bless you today! SDG
John Laulainen
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