Letters

  • You gave me the reminder that I should be grateful for everything I achieve, even when I consider myself to have failed.

    Caoimhe

    Good Losers Make Brilliant Winners

    To:

    Mary Barrett

    From:

    Caoimhe Farrell

    Letter Dear Mary, We met for the first time on the squishy wet fields of Loughrea Athletic Club’s grounds in Bushfield. I was six-years-old and I was wearing my little flower shorts that I was obsessed with at the time and you had our group run all the way across the pitch and back. I…

  • This too is ministry.

    Joe

    I don’t want to be a pastor… I want to be a spy

    To:

    E. Joe Richards

    From:

    Ryan Ahlgrim

    Letter Dear Joe, One Sunday morning in 1969, when I was eleven years old, I came to you with a distressing dilemma. A year earlier, around the time you became pastor of Lombard Mennonite Church outside Chicago, I promised God that I would become a pastor when I grew up. But now, a year later,…

  • So many memories of that wonderful time of curiosity, learning and being nurtured.

    James Gunden

    Gratitude Begins in Kindergarten

    To:

    Kathryn Aschliman

    From:

    James Gunden

    Letter Ms. Kathryn Aschliman – you are a very important person to me.  You have been a positive influence on my entire life.  This is a great experience for me to thank you and tell you in person what your love and friendship means to me which continues to this day. It started in 1963…