[Cursillo] Something for FUN!

[AnneAbdy at aol.com]

The Branches  Ministry 

I am the vine, you are the branches . love each other  . 
show your love through your actions .  John  15 
DeColores, 
My name  is Bill McCartney and I am in a Cursillo reunion group at Grace 
Episcopal  Church, Cullman, Alabama.  The reason for this e-mail is I need your 
favorite recipe(s) for  inclusion in an international cookbook I'm publishing to 
help fund The Branches  Ministry.  This is a ministry my  reunion group began 
in October, 2006. 
Branches  is a fund, administered by our rector, to help people bridge 
significant  financial hardships.  Its focus is  on helping with travel, food, and 
accommodations required when being treated at  out-of-town clinics, and other 
large health care expenses not covered by  insurance.  Help with other types of 
 financial hardships will also be considered as funds allow.   
Since my reunion group's job is to  lead funding for this ministry, I 
initiated this project as a personal Apostolic  Action.  I think it would also be  
great fun to serve an African appetizer to a reunion group in  Australia, or 
dessert from  Bermuda at an ultreya in Canada, or snacks from Wales to a 
Homecoming Celebration in Alabama!   
Yet, Delicious 4th Day Dishes (the  cookbook's working title) is planned to 
go beyond funding Branches and providing  a collection of the world's best 
recipes.  It will serve to remind us that, like the rooster's multi-colored  
feathers, each Cursillista or diocese represents only one facet of the  whole.  
Too, inspirational prayers,  poems, and other readings will be included to make 
it a wonderful agape gift  appropriate for all types of memorable occasions.   
We never know what will turn the  Christ Light on for others, or make it 
shine brighter in ourselves.  Perhaps something in one of the readings  will 
enable more of us to: Make a friend, Be a friend, Bring a friend to Christ  more 
often, or be the tipping point for a friend to decide on coming.   
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Please help by taking two actions  now: 
1 - Send "Recipe Palanca!"  E-mail me your favorite recipe(s) to 
_bmccartney at askAristo.com_ (mailto:bmccartney at askAristo.com) .  Please include: Your Name 
- The full  name of your church - Your City, (State), Country as part of each 
recipe you  submit.  
If you are sending multiple recipes  as separate attachments, include your 
name, church, etc. on each one so when  hundreds are printed, your recipe can 
still be identified as yours. 
2 - Help me reach lots of other people who  are living their 4th Day.   
Please send this entire e-mail to  everyone you know who attended a Cursillo 
(or similar) weekend.  Include your ultreya, ultreya leaders,  Secretariat, 
rector, and those you went through your weekend with.  Add a personal note at 
the top asking  them to send recipes to me, and this message to those they know 
who are in other  diocese or countries.   
The goal is to make this an  international effort filled with delicious dishes
 from every continent.  However, it can only be accomplished one  willing 
heart at a time.  I pray  your heart is.   
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Delicious 4th Day Dishes  is expected to be ready to ship by the end of 2007. 
 I will be sending another note out as  soon as it is.  In that message I  
will include a list of all expenses and the amount going directly into The  
Branches Ministry Fund from the sale of each book.   
In the interest of full  disclosure  
I am being purposefully vague about  "expenses" because there are too many 
unknowns at this point.  For instance, the number of pages, type  of paper and 
binding, how much color will be included, and other printing costs  cannot be 
determined now.  Also, if  the number of books purchased is "small," there will 
probably be no expenses  paid from its sales beyond direct printing and 
shipping costs.   
However, I am praying for, and  anticipating, a "large" response.  If it is 
"large,"  then some  amount  will be paid to my  publishing company to cover 
marketing, inventorying, packaging, handling  customer inquiries, web page 
hosting, on-line transaction processing costs, and  other expenses incurred from 
selling Delicious 4th Day Dishes.   
Yet, whether the volume sold is  "small" or "large," Branches will receive 
the bulk of all revenue in excess of  direct printing and shipping costs.   The 
primary goal will always be to maximize the ability of Branches to  help 
people bridge financial crises. 
In the meantime, we would love for  you to visit us at Grace's new web site:  
_http://www.gracecullman.org/_ (http://www.gracecullman.org/) .   
Thank-you for helping us bring this  ministry to fruition.   
Ultreya! 
Bill  McCartney 
_bmccartney at askAristo.com_ (mailto:bmccartney at askAristo.com)  
256.739.6828   
1440 Greenwood Dr.  NE 
Cullman, AL 35055 
NOTE : It may not be feasible to  include every recipe received.   However, 
every effort will be made to include at least one from every  person.  If your 
recipe(s) is not  included in the first edition it will be held for subsequent 
ones.  In case of duplicates, the recipe  received first will be the one 
used. 
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