March 10.2010
Dear Supporter
Please accept our sincere thanks for your special gift and for being a driving force behind the
animal protection work of the Ontario PCA. We are grateful that we can count on you to help the animal,
and to advocate for their welfare.
Your gift will make an important difference to animals, ensuring the rescue, survival and rehabilitation of
many thousands of dogs, cats and wildlife each year. I am heartened to know there are so many friends out
there.
It i with pleasure that I attach your official income tax receipt. On behalf of those who cannot speak for
themselves, thank you for your kind support.
We look forward to keeping you informed on how your contributions are at work in the Society through our
our website
Thank you for caring!
T. Craig Mabee
Director of Development
Canadian Funding Corp.
Dear Friends of The Fellowship,
There are many reasons why I regularly express my gratitude to God for your partnership
with The Fellowship–and why I am also praying today for your participation and steadfast
support of our newest charitable program in Canada; On Wings of Eagles. IFCJ Canada officially
launched On Wings of Eagles this past November. And since then, more than 650 Jews have
already benefited from your commitment to this prophetic ministry.
Rosa, a 27-year-old Jewish immigrant from Krasnodar, Russia, recently made her aliyah
to Israel through the help of a Wings-sponsored Freedom Flight. Today, she is now benefiting
from our klitah, or resettlement, program.
All of this was made possible by the contributions of caring On Wings of Eagles
ministry partners!
Rosa also serves to illustrate why I pray fervently for your ongoing support of our Wings
outreach. It is because I fear for the safety of Jews still in the former Soviet Union and other
distressed lands whose lives are darkened by the terrible specter of rising anti-Semitism.
This was the case for Rosa. As she says, “Our family paid a price for being Jewish. My
great-grandfather was sent to the Gulag [the dreaded Soviet slave labor camps] because he
was a Jew. From then on, my family made a conscious decision to keep our Judaism a secret.
But what can you do? The regime knows who is Jewish.”
Rosa’s grandfather was discriminated against for being a Jew. “He was an engineer on
a team that created a reservoir. Everyone other than my grandfather was awarded a special
prize for their work. But not him. That’s just the way it was in the Soviet Union. Religion was
outlawed, and Jews were persecuted.”
The fear of anti-Semitism also carried over into the next generation. “My father was going
to be named David in honor of his grandfather. But his parents didn’t want to cause him any
unnecessary grief and ‘brand’ him with a Jewish name; so they called him Yuri.”
Even Rosa felt the fear of being a Jew in Russia. “Our family did its best to hide our
Judaism, although behind closed doors we never turned our backs on it. But it was this secrecy
and fear that made me want to live in Israel. I knew there was a Jewish homeland where we
wouldn’t have to change our names or hide our faith. That seemed like the ultimate freedom.”
And now, thanks to friends like you, Rosa is experiencing this freedom in her Jewish
homeland. She is living at the Beit Canada absorption center, and says, “I already know how
to read and write Hebrew.”
She is deeply grateful to Fellowship supporters for her new life. “It’s great to know
that caring Canadians are supporting the immigration of Jews to Israel. I’m grateful to The
Fellowship and its donors for making this possible.”
Bringing Rosa from Russian anti-Semitism to freedom in Israel is certainly a victory of
one among many who are still in need. Now let us press forward to win many more victories
by rescuing more needy Jews from the former Soviet Union and places like Ethiopia, South
America, Arab lands such as Yemen and Iran, and even Europe. All are places where Jewish
people are living in hardship and danger.
Indeed, the world situation today is so volatile I believe we must do all we can, while we
can, to rescue Jewish exiles ”from the four corners of the earth” (Isaiah 11: 12), and bring them
home on the shoulders of Gentiles.
We pray world conditions will not fan the flames of anti-Semitism-but the future is in
God’s hands. Our calling is not political speculation, but obedience to the Bible’s prophetic
mandate: “1 will beckon to the Gentiles, I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring
your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders” (Isaiah 49:22).
Lifting Jews out of danger and fulfilling Bible prophecy are two powerful reasons I invite
you to participate in On Wings of Eagles by sharing a generous gift with The Fellowship for the
aliyah and klitah of more Jewish exiles like Rosa.
God willing, we can use each day and hour we have to help bring more needy Jews home
to Israel. Please send your contribution today for On Wings of Eagles, and thank you for helping
once more with this sacred, prophetic calling.
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
Chairman
PS
I am honored to ask for your participation in the rescue of needy Jews as we help answer
this prayer of Israel’s exiles: “Save us, 0 LORD our God, and gather us from the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name” (Psalm 106:47). Please be generous in your
response, for their sake! God bless you.
Canadian Funding Corp
To Canadian Funding Corp,
I would like to thank you very much for your donation to the
Circle of Care Foundation.
Circle of Care is the link between people facing significant health
changes and the supports they need to maximize independence.
Donations to Circle of Care contribute to enhancing a better quality
of life.
On behalf of the Board of Directors, the staff and most importantly
our clients who will directly benefit from your continued support,
thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Michael F. Scheinert, CEO
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Encl. Income Tax Receipt
