Dear Friend or Potential Friend of ACCESS,

Many thanks to those of you who joined us at our recent 5th Anniversary Celebration and Fall Fundraising Dinner on November 7th, and especially to those of you who have already contributed to support our event and organization! The food was a little slow in being served that night, but the event and program itself was a big success!

In addition to the feast of a ten-course Chinese banquet, great live music and the chance at winning great door prizes, the almost 220 guests who filled the restaurant were rewarded with the rare treat of hearing directly from one of our ACCESS clients, who shared a brief testimony and a song, and another ACCESS client shared anonymously through a touching video slideshow she put together (all of this was AFTER I specifically mentioned in my 5 Year Report that we don’t usually get to talk about or show the work we do specifically because of confidentiality, so it is extra special to have not just one, but two clients being willing to share about their healing experiences through counseling at ACCESS).

Needless to say, hearing such testimonies gives people a glimpse as to how rewarding it can be for us at ACCESS as we walk alongside and help people find reconciliation, healing, and wholeness. What we do, however, is not possible without support and generous donors like many of you. We cannot express our appreciation much better than was said by the anonymous client in her video slideshow that night:

“This has been a wonderful year of healing, being set free from old patterns of thinking, and growing closer to God. Though there is much room to grow, I feel like God has already raised my life from the dead – I now have so much peace and hope. I just want to thank ACCESS for being such a big part of this!! Thank YOU so much for supporting such an amazing cause like ACCESS that is changing lives like mine.”

In honor of our 5th Anniversary, and thanks to generous donors for this great prize, we would like to show our appreciation by rewarding our ACCESS donors with a chance to win a one week vacation in Hawaii! Our Donors Raffle was announced at our dinner on November 7th, but we would like to extend the appreciation by opening the drawing up to those of you who were not able to attend the event, and we also encourage you to spread the word to as many people as may be interested. This will help us both to spread the word about ACCESS, as well as to help us raise more funds, especially needed during these tough economic times.

Attached please find a picture of the resort and the Donors Raffle Drawing Rules, which contains a link for the website for more photos and information on the ocean-view Mauna Lani Point condo in Hawaii in our prize package. For those of you who are new to ACCESS, please visit our website at www.AsianChristianCounseling.org for more information. Asian Christian Counseling & Educational Seminar Services, Inc. (ACCESS) is a 501(c)3 charitable organization. Donations are tax-deductible, and for donations of $50.00 or more we will give one raffle ticket for the Donors Raffle Drawing for each $50 increment donated. Donations received and postmarked by December 31st, 2009 will be eligible.

Best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving!


Rebekah Wang, LMFT
Executive & Clinical Director