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.

Edition 14 August 2008

Edition 15 September 2008

In September I attended “Where We Stand”. It was “A Conversation about Arizona’s Schools in Tucson.” There were four of the conferences going on at the same time throughout the four regions; Flagstaff, West and Central Phoenix and Tucson.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wherewestand/

I am extremely hopeful that the political, business, and educational leaders in Arizona are starting to become more innovative, creative, and active in incorporating Service-Learning, portfolio based assessment and guidelines for implementing more Peer Reviewed materials into the education process. We have worked very hard this year to outline exactly how we will encourage private, charter and public schools to implement Service-Learning into their districts, schools and classrooms.  I have also begun to realize how important it will be for me to have the ability to give 100% of my time to my role as the Founder and President of Heaven’s M.A.G.I.C., Inc. in the future.

On a sad note, I was disappointed that Google decided to move out of Arizona. I hope that they will come back in the future. I believe that implementing Service-Learning throughout Arizona will create a thriving, creative, innovative, and scientifically advanced population and that there will be many opportunities for Google to develop products here in the future.

It’s possible that Google just might have to create charter schools and grow their own. They are just so far ahead of any public institution capabilities. There are very few schools who can deliver what they expect at this point. If everyone worked in a Google environment, the world would be more productive. If every teacher taught in a Google environment, they would never quit and would mostly likely delay retirement until their last breath. If every child learned in a Google environment, they would blow your mind!! I am seriously surprised that other companies, schools, and universities, have not tried to duplicate the Google environment!

We will do our best to duplicate the Google environment in our organization and in our Heaven’s M.A.G.I.C., Inc. Chapters. We want our members to feel comfortable, flexible, and free to create, innovate, explore, and discover the limitless potential for Service-Learning in their future!

Blessings

Edition 16 October 2008

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

This has already been an unforgettable month for me!

It started off with a bang on October 1st!

I attended my first State of Education K-12 Conference and met many warm

and friendly people in the state of Arizona who care very deeply about

education and are working very hard to improve it in this region.

The best surprise was the launch of a  new non profit organization

in the community!

Tucson Values Teachers

http://tucsonvaluesteachers.org/

This is a perfect example of the Theresa's Fund Loves Heaven's M.A.G.I.C.

Project. When BIG Business, the government, non profits, and universities

coalesce everyone WINS! If you are an educator, or you know people who

are in the field, you might want to share this with them. If you are a

C.E.O. or a member of of an organization in your community

with many C.E.O.'s, you might want to consider copying the concept of

Tucson Values Teachers in your own community. Tucson Values Teachers

will take care of the teachers and Heaven's M.A.G.I.C., Inc. will

take care of the children K-12.

As an educator, the message in the title of the organization alone,

brings joy to my heart! In addition, I was also able to experience

the excitement of a launch! I am so excited about the prospect for

our launch in the near future. Anyone involved in putting together

Tucson Values Teachers must surely be

Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child at heart!

The people in my state and surrounding community have stepped up

in a HUGE way and I am extremely grateful for their efforts!

In addition to being a full time 4th grade teacher in a Title I school,

I continue to network in the community and work on our miraculous

business plan.

In case anyone may be wondering,

Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child, Inc.

Loves Teachers  !

Google... Would you consider coming to Tucson in the future?

We would love to have you here! I am sure if you became a part of

Tucson Values Teachers, many teachers would love the opportunity

to have an internship with you for the summer !

Thank you for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers!

Edition 17 November 2008

WOW!

This has been an unforgettable month for the United States of America!

Edition 18, December 2008

The people of India and those throughout the world are in our thoughts and prayers.

May God help heal your pain in this time of loss and give you the strength to endure this tragedy.

Our desire is to create a Powerful Force For Good, a tolerant human race that focuses on our commonalities and not our differences, so that these tragedies will not occur in the future.

We hope that people around the world will consider creating Heaven's M.A.G.I.C. Chapters in their schools, in their countries and dedicating them to the innocent tourists and citizens of India who were brutally murdered by the terrorists, and the courageous Indian police and military officers who sacrificed their lives to fight terrorism and save the lives of others.

They will be remembered, they should not be forgotten.

We pray for PEACE on EARTH.

We ALL believe in ANGELS!

Pray that the ANGELS will guide us on a path towards peace.

This type of tragedy affects us deeply and makes us more determined to accomplish Heaven's M.A.G.I.C.'s mission and vision.

Sincerely,

Laura Ann Osterman

Founder and President

Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child, Inc. 

Edition 19 January 2009

Dear Heaven's M.A.G.I.C. Friends and Family,

Happy New Year!

We understand that things are tough everywhere. Many countries, states, cities, and towns have felt the impact of the economic downturn.

Arizona has recently decided to make cuts to the Education budget for all state universities and K-12 education, in order to save the state from going bankrupt.

We just HOPE that this is our organization's opportunity to step up and work with local school districts.   We TRUST that in the future all children and teachers who are willing to engage in Service-Learning will have the opportunity to work with us, help us help others endure these trying times, and LOVE, SERVE, and LEARN.

We were thrilled last month to learn of an Arizona State Statute that allows school distircts to rent space to profit and non profit organizations.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone and every living creature in Australia who has suffered from the tragedy of the wildfires.

Heaven's M.A.G.I.C. Loves Firefighters!

The brave people who risk their lives to protect us, all of God's creatures and our property, especially our homes.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29123220/wid/18298287?GT1=45002

Despite all of the tragedy in the world, we are optimistically looking forward to Valentine's Day and the celebration of our eighth year of incorporation!

02/14/09

Our thoughts and prayers go out to ALL of the family and friends of those who were  on flight 3407.

This is a wonderful tribute to them.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29196184/

This message is for Christian Rossiter in Australia.

Christian,

Please don't give up! You have no idea what the future holds.

People engage in scientific breakthroughs in medicine

every day. What matters most is the mind, heart, and soul.

You have a purpose in this world!

Please Don't give up!

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie....

Sincerely,

Laura Ann Osterman

Founder and President 

Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child

 August/September 2009 Newsletter

Dear Friends and Family of Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child,

We are outraged at the senseless killing of innocent people, most recently that of Annie Le.

We are disgusted at people who prey on people, especially children and take them away

from their loved ones. It is a tragedy that this happens every day and we just continue to

watch its aftermath on the news.

NOW is the time to step up and say NO MORE! NOW is the time to take back the night!

Take back our streets, take back our neighborhoods, take back our schools, take back

our local, state and national government from people who allow this to happen.

If you are not ENRAGED about the killing of Annie Lee then consider this....

Only God kew of the plans He had for her. What if those plans would have included

having her use her brilliant ability, knowledge, and talents in pharmacology to cure

cancer and now we may never know.

In one instant, EVIL took that all away. It is our hope that Service-Learning chapters

will be created throughout the world to honor all of the innocent victims of senseless

evil crime.

The Le family and her finacee are in our thoughts and prayers. As well as all of those

of you, throughout the world who have lost your loved ones to senseless acts of violence and evil.

We cannot change the past, but we can and we will make sure that things like this are

prevented as much as possible with Service-Learning in the future.

Don't be afraid to shine your light of FAITH, HOPE and LOVE in the darkest areas of your

neighborhoods, schools, and cities.

Coalesce, oragnize and eliminate the darkness with your LIGHT!

Don't be afraid! 

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the

wickedness and snares of the devil; may God rebuke him we humbly pray;

and do thou O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, cast

into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who wander about the world seeking

the ruin of souls. Amen.

Remember, the majority of the world believes in angels, and call upon the

most powerful angel in the world to defeat evil, transform the darkness into

the light and heal the world.

October 2009 Newsletter

Dear Friends and Family of Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child, Inc.,

Our biggest challenge in expanding our organization has been raising "seed" money, but we feel very blessed to have been given an alternative sloution in these difficult economic times.

My 2009 gift to our supporters "The Kingdom of God; Rejoice, Awaken and Arise" on my Youtube channel CRE8HVNONEARTH is circulating throughout the world and has been gaining a lot of support.

We hope, pray and trust that "The Switch" will create a boost to our efforts of helping the less fortunate throughout the world.

This and our Google Adwords Grant have given us the faith to continue to pursue our mission and our vision.

Recently, I have been working on networking and learning as much as I can about business.

I took an opportunity to attend a networking event at the Tucson Chamber of Commerce and everyone was so helpful, friendly, and supportive.

During the event I even won a door prize from Office Depot. It was a bag filled with many earth friendly, colorful, recycled office products. I was thrilled to see how businesses are stepping up to carry recycled and earth friendlier products!

Here is a picture taken at the event

Jack Camper, President of the Tucson Chamber of Commerce, Laura Ann Osterman, Founder and President Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child, Inc., and Tammy Child of Office Depot.

In effort to make sure that my mind is able to catch up to my heart and soul, after prayer, reflection, and comtemplation, I have decided to apply for a Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership at Northern Arizona University.

I created "The U.T.O.P.I.A. Project" while I was working on my M.Ed. in Leadership at Northern Arizona University and I can't imagine what God will have in store for me in a Doctorate program.

I feel that the knowledge and skills set of this program will be very beneficial to our organization in the future. I ask that you keep me in your thoughts and prayers as I work on this endeavor and I am excited about the potential to create, engage in, and defend a dissertation of Educational Leadership, with regards to Service-Learning activities, experiences, and research within my community in the future.

If I am fortunate to be accepted into the Ed.D. program in Educational Leadership and I become unable to perform my duties as President I will make sure that a member from our fabulous, energetic, supportive Heaven's M.A.G.I.C., Inc. Board takes over in my absence. I will always be blessed to be the Founder, that will never change.

With regards to fabulous news in the school system, a teacher at Safford K-8 Engineering and Technology Magnet School, the middle school for the elementary school I teach in, was awarded "Arizona History Teacher Of the Year"

Kate Gilbert engages her classes in Service-Learning. Her students helped tutor my students last year, and she encouraged the elementary school students to raise money for The Heifer Foundation. She teaches students that school is a blessing, because many children throughout the world do not have the ability to go to school.

She uses portfolios in her classroom and she attended a lengthy program working with graduate students and university professors in the field of History.

This university experience would be similar to the idea behind Dr. Hargreaves' Knowledge-Creating School concept.

She is an example of "The U.T.O.P.I.A. Project" and she is one of many teachers that I would like to be able to offer our bonus grant to in the future.

I am thrilled because something I belived in and had faith in is coming into fruition.

It is humbling, amazing and breathtaking to see my research come to life in the community.

Congratulations Kate Gilbert!

If anyone else out there knows of anyone else who has engaged, engagaes or will engage in these experiences, please share it with us!

On a sad note, we have not forgotton Derrion Albert.  Our prayers are with Derrion's family and friends.

We pray for a better future and believe in a time when people will live in abundance, peace, faith, and love. We pray that people in Chicago have a chance to view "The Kingdom of God; Rejoice, Awaken and Arise" on our Youtube channel CRE8HVNONEARTH and that Chicago does "The Switch"  to save its community. We pray that students in Chicago begin to engage in "The U.T.O.P.I.A. Project", LOVE, SERVE, and LEARN and transform their community in the future.

God grant us the sereneity to accept the things we cannnot change, courage to change the things we can and the wisdom to know the difference.

Don't be afraid to change your community, city, state and the world! 

Have the COURAGE to transform the darkness into the light Chicago. Show your brothers and sisters the power of God's children's FAITH, HOPE, and LOVE.

Have a blessed day or evening,

Laura Ann Osterman

Founder and President

Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child, Inc.

Exciting November News Coming Soon!

Have a blessed Thanksgiving!

November/December 2009  Newsletter

Dear Friends and Family of Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child, Inc. 

BREAKING NEWS from Oakland!! 

Dear Friends and Family of Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child, Inc.

People of Haiti, 

You always have been and always will be in our prayers.

May all of His angels serve you in your time of need.

Trust that God will care for you in this challenging time.

Peace to you, your families, friends and country.

For those of you throughout the world who would like to contribute to the Haitian relief effort, I have found Doctors without Borders to be an excellent investment in eliminating pain in Haiti and throughout the world. You can donate from here.

https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/SSLPage.aspx?pid=197&hbc=1?ref=main-menu 

You can even become a "Field Partner", donate monthly, and know that when disaster strikes, you are already doing your part to help those in need.

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/donate/fieldpartners/ 

A fabulous Service-Learning Lesson Plan on Haiti for students is here

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/project-haiti-holding-a-teach-in/  

I love this photo!  I hope you all love it too!

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/boy_rescued_in_haiti_by_new_york_1fPwKukEPpzQJX0QqaN9mK# 

God bless them all! 

Sincerely,

Laura Ann Osterman

Founder and President

Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child, Inc. 

Tenth Anniversary Newsletter February 2010!

Dear Friends and Family of Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child, Inc.,

We have officially reached a decade of sharing Service-Learning. Some of those years were spent engaging in local Service-Learning activities, some were spent on researching on Service-Learning, and more recently, in the past three years we are reaching a global audience. 

In an effort to have an attitude of gratitude, we are extremely grateful to 

People of Poland, and Polish people throughout the world, you are in our thoughts and prayers.

Peace be with you. 

Sincerely,

Laura Ann Osterman

Founder and President

Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child, Inc. 

Newsletter April, May and June 2010

Dear Friends of Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child, Inc.,

Although our organization has not done well with fund raising and building Heaven's M.A.G.I.C., Inc. chapters, we are thrilled about the fact that Service-Learning is becoming more valuable to communities throughout the world.

Recently, Arizona schools have had to made more cuts to their budgets in education and many after school programs have been cut, so there is a lot of potential for our organization's mission to be accepted, appreciated and approved of by private, public and charter schools in the future. 

Unfortunately, while I did make an alternate list for the Doctoral of Educational Leadership program at Northern Arizona University, I was not accepted. This was most likely due to the fact that many people had more experience in leadership and within the field of education than I did. I might consider reapplying in the future, but I am also considering other opportunities.

At this point there are many obstacles to overcome in order for our organization to be embraced in the public school system, but we continue to do our best to make sure people are aware of our mission and vision.

Optimistically speaking, I am young and have many years to acquire the skills that are necessary to move our organization forward and once I am retired form the classroom I will be able to devote 100% of my time to accomplishing our mission and vision.

On a closing note, I am very proud of my 2010 5th grade class! They donated their spare change and candy money all year long and with my help they were able to purchase a "Flock of Hope" and "Trio of Rabbits" from the Heifer Foundation.  http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.204586/?msource=kwg529&gclid=CPqs8dKvnaICFRZ5gwodFmWzuw

They also came up with several inspirational ideas after watching the" Paper clips"movie.  http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/paper_clips/    As middle school students, they are considering creating a memorial for the 911 tragedy in the future.

As much as I would have liked to accomplished many big things this year, I was only able to accomplish a few small things, but I did them, as always, with great LOVE.

"Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you." 

 Update July 2010

People of Uganda, you are in our prayers.

May He serve justice on those who persecute you for your faith.

May He watch over you and keep you safe.

May you rise above the violence and create service-learning chapters to honor those innocent people who have been murdered by evil and hate.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/07/12/20100712uganda-world-cup-bombings.html

Please pray for Uganda and peace and religious tolerance throughout the world. 

God Bless Uganda !

Sincerely,

Laura Ann Osterman

Founder and President

Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child, Inc. 

Update July 26, 2010

People of Germany,

We were devastated to hear about the accident at the Love Festival.

To leave condolences for the families and friends who have suffered great loss, please go to this site. 

http://www.festivalpig.com/love-parade-2010-book-of-condolences-page-2-comment-form.html 

Poetry to comfort you and others in your time of loss.

 http://www.heavensmagic.org/luckefamily/id14.html 

You are in our prayers.

Sincerely,

Laura Ann Osterman

Founder and President

Heaven's Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child, Inc.

The Government support of Service-Learning
Please support the G.I.V.E. Act
Thank you :)

Update...December 19, 2008

YOU can STOP THIS!   WE can STOP THIS!

For $7.50, Less than a movie, you can provide food for a starving child.

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/donate/fieldpartners/

$0.25 cents a day provides two nourishing meals every day for a month to a child threatened by famine.

We endeavor to create a chapter that will support Doctor's Without Borders in the future.

At least this way, the next time you see a starving child, you can feel hopeful and not hopeless, and powerful instead of powerless.

Ideally, if everyone who owned a credit card did this, the problem probably would not exist.

And remember... Every time you sit down to eat a meal, figuratively speaking, there is a cute, smiling, child sitting across from single you, and/or you and your family enjoying your generosity.

Your family size has increased, and for those who dislike eating alone, figuratively speaking, you'll never eat alone!

Please share this message with your friends and family and pass it on!

Spread it like wildfire throughout the world!