A letter from Jim Pruett...

I'm looking at the August expense sheet for the ranch; feed and grain $1200, farrier $420, veterinary service and equine medicine $1500, people food $1400, payroll $3500, assorted insurance $1100, school stuff $500, cell phones, telephones, computer lines and cable TV $700, therapist $400 and gas and electric service $800. These figures do not include outlays for recreation, office supplies, lawn mower break downs, gasoline, paint, auto repairs, bridles, ropes, building and fence repair or the myriad of other costs that a working ranch incurs from day to day. To keep your ranch going it costs approximately $10,000 a month.

You, the ranch staff and our dedicated volunteers have kept the ranch in the black since 1980. While other charities have bit the dust we still rock on! I am very proud of what we have done. However (uh-oh, here it comes), our fund raisers have barely kept us afloat this year. The fact of the matter is that we are just making it from month to month. So don't let up now. Keep the faith. Through thick and thin we will continue to provide a safe place for our boys and our animals. We will do it because they depend on us and "this we will defend". God has never been late but He has missed some dandy opportunities to be early.

In an effort to make it easier for you to continue your kind and much needed assistance, you can now donate to the ranch by credit card using this web site. It is totally safe AND tax deductible. The Stevens and Pruett Foundation for Children and Animals is a 501 (C3) charity with an impeccable reputation for honesty and some of us are even good looking (especially to the horses when we bring apples)! All I am asking is that you help us end our year and start a new millennium with your support! All of us have the opportunity to nurture the lives of some young men and animals who have not been as fortunate as us. A donation of $10 or $25 goes a long way when we join forces together to help those who cannot help themselves. Some of us have been so blessed that a $100 to a $1000 donation would not be hard to give. Please let your heart guide you to give whatever you can. A Christmas gift for the children and animals - it will come back to you ten fold. I guarantee it or your money back.

Maybe you can't give cash at this time. Well, how about clothing for boys 13 to 17, household items like comforters or twin size sheets, bags of sweet feed (extra winter feed provides body heat for the animals), a used pickup truck or a big ole dining room table with chairs. Maybe you can donate time. IT'S ALL GOOD! Whatever you give will be deeply appreciated by some very special young men who up 'til now haven't had too many people be nice to them...until you came along.

Joy and I wish you and yours a very special holiday season. May God bless you and yours and fill your cup to overflowing. Peace/Joy and Jim Pruett 11/99

This bulletin just handed me: The Pruett family is going to spend less this year on personal gifts. Instead, we are honored to start off the credit card donation system with a $1000 donation. Your love for the ranch may not change the whole world but I know we can start a fire of change on one little corner of it that can be seen all the way to Heaven!

SERO VENIENTIBUS OSSA

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