Hey everyone! Below is the email I sent to everyone who has signed up for the Orthodox Kid's Pen Pal Program. If you did not receive an email from me and wish to participate, please email me asap at PenPals{at}OrthodoxMom{dot}com so I can sign your child up! I'm really excited about this and appreciate all of your efforts in spreading the word, please continue to do so!

Greetings in Christ!

I just wanted to let all of you know that I'll be sending out your child(ren)'s pen pal partner(s) beginning this week (I'll be beginning this week but it may take me through next week to get to everyone). There are already over 50 children from all of the world participating! We have 1 from China, 3 from Greece, 1 from Canada and children from all over the states! I am very excited and I pray that God blesses this program and each child participating. My hope is that each child develops a wonderful friendship with their pal that will last a lifetime!

Keep an eye out for an email either this week or next from me containing several other details. What I do need from everyone that I forgot to mention in the original list of questions is:

1. Parish name, city and state (for my curiosity only)
2. Your address (duh!) :)

I also want to hear your thoughts on the program, what type of things do you think would be fun to do? Some of the things I was thinking of are maybe doing a paper icon swap one month, maybe a handmade item another month or a "surprise" that includes one of their pal's "favorite things". Does anyone else have any ideas? I want this to be our program and therefore encourage all of your input. These types of projects will only be every couple of months, quarterly perhaps, so that it doesn't become to big of an obligation. They'll only be responsible for writing one letter per month. If they want to write more often I don't think anyone will have a problem with that.

Again, thank you all so much for participating and I'll be posting frequent updates on the program on Adventures of an Orthodox Mom! Keep spreading the word!!

Your sister in Christ,
Sylvia