Dear Friends of Heaven’s M.A.G.I.C. throughout the World!

Heaven’s M.A.G.I.C. has received many blessings in the past six months.

We have a system to channel resources to time and energy which can be duplicated and reach out to others on a global scale, the support of Google, a website that is viewed throughout the world, a larger dedicated, optimistic, and enthusiastic board, and the U.T.O.P.I.A. Project’s presentation at the Back to school conference introduced us to many teachers who will be willing to become a part of this project in 2008. 

However, the blessing of Theresa’s Fund and the $500,000 matching grant will be bestowed on another non profit organization that serves to eliminate abuse and domestic violence in the state of Arizona in 2007.

We received a gracious rejection letter from the Chairwoman of Theresa’s Fund. Her letter encouraged us to reapply in the future and had a “God’s delays are not God’s denials”, tone. I believe our “seed” will be able grow and strengthen in order to meet more of the criteria for Theresa’s Fund in the future. 

We have the utmost respect for Mr. McMurry, all of the employees at McMurry, and the volunteers who choose the beneficiary for Theresa’s Fund.

We have been working diligently to contact Business Angels, Angels Investors, Venture Capitalists and many other organizations and individuals. We have faith that they will be generous to our organization and help it prosper.

We have asked the Board of Theresa’s Fund to continue to refer to the project as the Theresa’s Fund Loves Heaven’s M.A.G.I.C. Project. The system to channel resources to time and energy that can be duplicated and reach out to others on a global scale was designed by the grace of God after Mr. McMurry’s prayer and the package Mr. McMurry sent us lead to all of Heaven’s M.A.G.I.C.’s blessings mentioned above.

We trust that we will be able to raise $1,000,000 and that the first attendees of the U.T.O.P.I.A. Project’s presentation will be leading their chapters in 2008.

We will continue to do whatever it takes to accomplish those objectives.

We are blessed to have the technology to be able to reach 1,000,000 people and if those 1,000,000 people are able to send us one dollar, we can easily reach our goal.

We appreciate anyone who supports the mission and vision of Heaven’s M.A.G.I.C., especially those of you who have added us to your favorites.

You all have a special place in our hearts.

You are the wind beneath Heaven’s Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child’s wings!

We BELIEVE in MIRACLES!

In God We Trust

Update......
God Bless Janet Napolitano for this gift to Arizona!

http://www.governor.state.az.us/dms/upload/E0_2007-20_SDOC7967.pdf

She signed this Executive Order on the day I found out that we would not receive Theresa’s Fund.

I did not find out about it until after I had to compose this difficult newsletter to notify our supporters that we would not receive the $500,000 matching grant.

Today is a miraculous day!

Celebrate! 

We BELIEVE!!

Love,

Laura Ann Osterman

Edition 9 

February 2008

This newsletter and a separate page are dedicated to Heaven’s M.A.G.I.C.

Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Canine
My Miniature Schnauzer, Mandorla Angelique Tresor, "Mandy."

She was my haloed angelic treasured friend and I was her
caretaker/companion for ten years.

When all of my girlfriends became married she was there on
many a night when I did not have a relationship, let alone any
prospective date, until I met Matthew in my 36th
year.

She was there when my mother traveled and I was left
to take care of the household.

As an only child, I was never lonely when she was around
even when she was just there laying beside me.

Diabetes was her cruel fate and part of me feels awful about
not noticing the symptoms until it was too late.

But for the most part she lived life on her own terms
in a natural, drug free way, and passed peacefully in her
sleep.

I take great comfort in knowing that she did not suffer
and was taken into God's loving arms on Ash Wednesday.

She would always refuse to walk on a leash and I did not
want to bully her into submission. Ironically, she would
naturally heal and walk beside me on many of our walks throughout
the neighborhood.

If she was able to get out of the front door of my home, she
would never go beyond my sight or just take off and run away.

I remember the first time that I saw her, she took to me right way.
She was sick and had kennel cough, my mother tried to persuade
me to pick another pup, but there was something between her and I
that was indescribable. She had such a spark!

I nursed her back to health and other than one ear infection, she
was never sick a day in her life, at least in my eyes.

While I was in graduate school, she was the one who had to be patient
and wait to play, as I created the U.T.O.P.I.A. Project.

When I finally met my soul mate she was the one who
waited patiently for my return from spending joyous
times with the man I love, designing the
Theresa's Fund Loves Heaven's M.A.G.I.C. Project, or
using my spare time to learn about the business world
creating a Business Paln, and building  
Heaven's M.A.G.I.C. into a thriving organization.

I always thought that I would be able to have more time in the
future to be with her. I was wrong.

She brought a tremendous amount of joy into my life and I would
not trade those moments for the ache in my heart right now.

I feel blessed to have been chosen to be her cartaker/companion
and I knew that I was meant to be her caretaker/companion,
because at first my mom said, “No” to bringing her home,
then my mother's dog, Celo, diedfrom kidney failure, and
and my mother said that she "missed the pitter patter of
little feet." 

She suggested that we go back and get Mandy, but it had been several
weeks, so I figured she was already taken by someone else.

Luckily, she was still there. The moment I returned to the pet store, she sat
up all perky and cute the same way she did the first time I walked
up to her, and as she licked my hand and as I grinned from ear to ear,
I said, " Hi little one, we're back, and we've come to take you home."

My fondest memory of her was when she was a puppy.
She had taken an entire roll of paper towels and shredded it
to pieces throughout my bedroom.

After we returned from an outing, I opened the door to
find my precious haloed angelic treasure sitting right
in the middle, hundreds of pieces of shredded paper towel
which appeared to look like snow.

She had a "yeah can I help you, I am a little busy right now"
look on her beautiful face. My mother and I laughed so hard.
I still hope to find the photo that we took that day.

I sat down on the floor picked up a huge handful of shreds
and tossed it in the air. She started to jump up, bark, and
run around the room. We enjoyed every moment of her creative
snowfall that day.

She managed to make it snow in the desert, and that was quite a feat.

If I had $100,000, I would set it aside right now, and use the
interest off of it in one year to build the 
Mandolra Angelique Tresor Chapter of  
Theresa's Fund Loves Heaven's M.A.G.I.C. for my
beloved Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Canine

I would ask that the members of that chapter dedicate their service
towards Service-Learning projects that support diabetes.

I would display a photo collage of my precious, loyal, loving,
friend, and the world would become a better place, because
of a special unique soul, Mandorla Angelique Tresor, "Mandy"
Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Canine.

As an elementary educator, I will have to settle for the poem
below, which I composed to honor her for now, but I will pray that a
Theresa's Fund Loves Heaven's M.A.G.I.C. Chapter
will one day bear her name. 
   

I loved Mandy from the first moment I saw her.
I will always love her and hold her in my heart forever.

Her gentle, loving, spirit will be with me as we continue to build
Theresa's Fund Loves Heaven's M.A.G.I.C.
Service-Learning chapters throughout the world! 

            Heaven's M.A.G.I.C.

      Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Canine
      
      Mandorla Angelique Tresor

"Mandy"

                   Scooterin Bertootie

      October 19, 1997   -    February 6, 2008                                 
              
                 Ash Wednesday 2008

You were always loyal, loving, and kind.

I wish you and I could have had more time.

I remember when you first caught my eye.

Now that you’re gone, tears well up, I cry.

We had to settle for only one decade.

In that time, a strong and loyal bond we made.

I will always cherish my memories of you.

Your love was beautiful, wonderful, and true.

You’re in a place where you will never feel pain.

Your soul and spirit will renew once again.

You were a spirit unique and free.

Happy go lucky, and full of glee.

So patient with my every wish

I’ll miss your little puppy kiss

You radiated love and grace.

No one could ever take your place.

Even though we’re now far apart

You’ll live forever in my heart

The joy you brought into my life

will always outweigh my pain in the end.

Until the day we will meet once again.

Farwell, my precious, special, loving, friend

I will love you forever,

Precious Bootie Scaputie Tooterind

Godspeed haloed angelic treasured friend.

            Composed on Ash Wednesday 2008 
           By her blessed caretaker/companion
                    Laura Ann Osterman
                   Founder and President
Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child

I know that I am not the only one
who has lost a loved one to diabetes.

I pray for a cure for diabetes for all of
God's creatures and children in the future.

Edition 9
March 2008

March news is looking excellent!

There will be a National Forum on Service-Learning!
http://www.wm.edu/news/index.php?id=8722 

We are extremely excited about this!!

Thank you Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
TIME Magazine, and William and Mary University!

I would love to meet these people someday.

Josh Wyner, executive vice president of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation;
Amy Cohen, director of Learn and Serve America;
Jim Kielsmeier, CEO of the National Youth Leadership Council;
Steven Culbertson, CEO of Youth Service America; and
David Smith, executive director of the National Conference on Citizenship.

We hope to be a part of the forums in the future!

This must be so exciting to Dr. Shelley Billig, ! WOW!

She is the Vice President of RMC Research Corporation
and is considered the dean of the service learning research community.

She knows about Heaven's M.A.G.I.C.!

Her had work and effort is part of "The U.T.O.P.I.A. Project

I hope the next Service-Learning Forum is hosted at ASU or the U of A...

I am still working on the 2008 Business Plan.
A very nice librarian, Deborah Brown, is helping me with all of the research!

We have created a slogan for our organization!

If anyone asks you what Heaven's M.A.G.I.C. is, just tell them it is
The "Fountain of Youth" for your spirit, love, and service.

Figuratively speaking of course.

I will be back with more of our progress at the end of the month..


Sincerely,
Laura Ann Osterman
Founder and President
Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child


Edition 10 
April 2008

This month we were blessed to be referred to Mr. Robert Fick, an Advanced Business Analyst in the Small Business Development Center at Pima Community College. Bob is brilliant! He is helping us edit and trim our Business Plan and refine it so that we will be able to present it to the community. He also has a tremendous amount of experience and advice to assist us in accomplishing Heaven's M.A.G.I.C.'s mission and vision in the future. We are learning many important things about business and running a business properly.

We would also like to take this time to thank the Desert Angels for their advice and support.

Our mission and vision will require a tremendous amount of support and we are very grateful to everyone who supports Heaven's M.A.G.I.C.

From Google, to the Heaven's M.A.G.I.C. Board, to our potential Angel Investors, to Bob, to those of you who share our website with others and spread our message throughout the world, we appreciate your support!

Please understand that we are putting 100% into making sure this Business Plan is a miraculous plan and creates posiitve changes for the entire world!

Please remember to keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

I am blessed to be surrounded by so many people who care about helping us accomplish our mission and vision.

On a more personal note, regardless of anyone's faith, I was very touched by the Pope's message to the world. He spoke many times on liberty, forgiveness, hope, and peace. He asked us to embrace our similarities rather than focusing on our differences to create a better world and he walked his talk the entire time he was here.

His prayer at Ground Zero was breathtaking!  http://blog.beliefnet.com/benedictions/2008/04/the-popes-prayer-at-ground-zer.html

Thank you!

Sincerely,
Laura Ann Osterman
Founder and President
Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child

Edition 11

May 2008

Dear Friends of Heaven's M.A.G.I.C.

As the August deadline for our 2008 goal to raise $1,000,000.00 approaches, I am reminded by my mother's wisdom.

She would always say..."God's delays are not God's denials." 

I will not accept defeat until August 8th at 11:59 A.M.

On August 9th I will reevaluate our goals and set another one accordingly.

I continue to work on the 2008 Business Plan with Mr. Fick and I am learning a
tremendous amount about the Business World.

Now that school is out and I am only working one job, I have more time to dedicate to Heaven's M.A.G.I.C. 

May was an extremely challenging month for me personally.

I have been teaching for over 10 years and I have never lost a student. 

At the end of the school year one of my students became seriously ill.

Leilani Rowley has aplastic anemia.

She has O+ blood.

She has been in and out of the University Medical Center in Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona several times, had many surgeries, transfusions for blood and platelets, etc.

I would like to take this time to ask anyone in the world, especially those of you in the United States and those of you who have O+ blood, if you do donate blood, and you do not give specifically to one individual, please donate in Leilani Rowley's name.

I truly admire this Leilani's courage deal with the pain, numerous procedures and frustration that accompanies this illness.

Please help us help my student, Leilani Rowley, in the fight of her life!
She may need a bone marrow transplant in the future.

Life dealt this child a serious blow and all of us continue to pray for Leilani Rowley, Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child. 

I would like to thank Tu Nidito http://www.tunidito.org/for providing a safe place for Leilani and her family to stay while she continues to receive transfusions and treatment at the University Medical Center.

Please hug your loved ones, especially the little loved ones.

It is heartbreaking to see them go from invincible bundles of energy to fragile and weak in an instant.

Please cherish the times that they wear you out because they are thriving and not fighting to survive.

I believe in miracles!

I pray for a miracle for Leilani everyday.

Sincerely,

Laura Ann Osterman

Founder and President

Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child, Inc.

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