AdvocateWeb HOPE eNewsletter

We receive many positive responses to our AdvocateWeb Message of HOPE eNewsletter.  Here's what people are saying:

• "Just wanted to let you know that I think this message about boundaries is great!!!!! This needs to be out there to educate people and to get people to think about this. Thank you!!!!"
• "This is succinct and powerful. I hope you will allow me to use this metaphor in my own work here with law enforcement and legislators. In fact this could be excerpted for many fine letters to editors all over the country. Thanks for YOUR power with words."
• "I wanted to thank you for this insightful newsletter that does offer hope.  I am sure others will feel hopeful after reading this."
• "Another great eNewsletter!! Spoken from the heart. You always seem to know what to say and when to say it! You are very encouraging and supportive. Because of you, this holiday season, I will have HOPE. Hope that one day I may see the light, feel at peace with life and others, or to really love myself. With supportive people, such as yourself, and your great staff this world is a better place. It is really nice to have somebody who understands your pain, your frustrations; and joys. Kevin, thank you for never saying, 'life is what WE make it.' You are one of the few people who truly understands. Today, I am thankful, thankful for you!"
• "I ... want to extend my warm wishes for a New Year filled with continuous blessing so you may continue your extraordinary ministry of helping others find hope. Your hope helps others manifest the love within them."
• "...thank you for your beautiful holiday message. You are truly a blessing for all of us...God bless you ... for all that you have done, and continue to do, for people you have never even met. You have given us a light in the darkness."
• "I have enjoyed reading and receiving this newsletter for several years."
• "Thank you for caring and for your excellent work."
• "What a lovely message of hope! AdvocateWeb is a beacon of light for many all year through, and this Xmas message is simply another example of the sensitivity, caring, and support that you offer through this wonderful Internet resources. Blessings of light, love, and peace to you and yours!"
• "Your message is truly one which has spoken to my heart..."
• "What a beautiful and poignant message. Your words are so true."
• "... your message is beautiful thank you very much. Reading just now is the first time in a while I have slowed down enough to reflect on feelings. I am printing this letter and caring it in the car so I will have a supportive connection over the next couple of days..."
• "Thank you so much for that message. I'm one of those people hurting...suffering the aftermath and effects from sexual exploitation from my former minister. ... God bless you this holiday season also, and thanks again for the message. What you said is right on target."
• "Thank you for the message of HOPE. It was encouraging last evening but as of this morning it has a special impact. I am going to pass this along to a very dear friend I will be visiting in the hospital this morning. Last evening she harmed herself quite severely and this morning she is racked by self-hatred and guilt plus many more feelings. ...  I can support pray and love her but often times I don't have the words. This morning I found them in last evening's HOPE eNewsletter. I know God works through many people who never would have thought their lives would be influenced by a stranger, in this case AdvocateWeb HOPE eNewsletter. Thank you all so much."
• "I want to say how grateful to you I am for putting together AdvocateWeb, for all your help, for all your prayers and for all your support. AdvocateWeb is a life saver and a God send and I am very very grateful to you!"
• "...your site has been a great source of hope and support to me these past few years. I do not think I would be where I am at now if it was not for your hard work and dedication."
• "You guys are the best!!!!!!!!!"
• "Thank you so much for the wonderful eNewsletter of 12/07/02! It articulated (so lavishly!) those inward feelings of mine...that have not yet found 'a voice of their own.' "
• "Your newsletters are always so good, but I really enjoyed the one for this week about talking to others and needing to be believed when we have no "wound" to show..."
• "Thank you for your AdvocateWeb HOPE eNewsletter. ... I think you've done an awesome job with AdvocateWeb. You are an inspiration."
• "Wow! That was beautiful! Thanks for the encouragement."
• "A note of appreciation for Kevin's outstanding article 10/4/02. Through choices, even after much suffering, one can recover and become better than before in so many ways. Thank you for pointing the readers onward."
• "Catherine writes so distinctively and to the point! I enjoy reading the 'HOPE eNewsletter' " ...
• "Whenever I read your newsletters, I feel comforted and energized. Today was no exception."
• "Utterly beautiful. May I save this and send to friends? Awesome. Thank you!"
• "Just have to say thank you so much for your sharing. It touched off some real feeling for me and after working through some more feelings, I got to another place of healing. Thank you for contributing to this work."
• "You always seem to say the right thing at the right time."
• "Your message of hope was wonderful! It was so wonderful that I sent it to my mother."
• "Such an inspiring newsletter!! For those of us who suffer in our silenced recluse, your voice of protest cries out loudly....not only to unveil the hushed cover-ups of gross wrongdoings, but to arouse our hearts onto hope from such tragedies.  What a voice you are! Thank-you!!!"
• "Your newsletter today was awesome. I forwarded it to as many people as I could. Can you get it published? It is so well written and expresses so much I would say but could not do justice."
• "As I read your newsletter, I realized just how much you have helped me. I can only share our experience with the Catholic church, but I have been educated on the prevalence and scope of sexual abuse. Most comforting have been the e-mails I have received and the sharing other people have done. It has fortified me. Thank you."
• "God has used AdvocateWeb greatly in my life, giving me hope when I wasn't able to see any."
• "Thank you so much for your message - I am finishing my sermon for tomorrow and really, really appreciated your newsletter piece."
• May I share this newsletter with a friend who is going through some pain of the past and struggling with the future. I think it would give them hope. It sure encouraged me."
• "I wish you and your staff many high five's, saying congratulations or a job well done, with each and every informative email you've put out there for quite a while."
• "When I read these words, they described every emotion that goes through my mind every day! These words bring tears to my eyes, because I know this is what I want, to be a whole person again, to be able to feel the way I used to feel. I spend so much time saying 'How I wish I could go back in time and get off the table, and walk out the door, so he would have never touched me!'  We all know that's not possible, so I go on, move forward, that's the only place I have left to go. Where would I be without you all?  HOPE-What a beautiful word!"
• "AdvocateWeb helps victims become survivors."
• "I really appreciate the work that you do as well as your personal messages. Thank you."
• "Very nice article..."
• "What a nice article ... Thank-you for such a compassionate article."
• "Your messages have been very powerful..."
• "I just received the newsletter ... it inspired me. ... Your newsletters are always so good."
• "What a beautiful way of reflection..."
• "Thank you for keeping a watchful eye and pulse on the universe, and alerting us to the events we need to know to remain free and let us continue to fly freely and safely everyday. I feel that you give many of us a 'soft place to fall,' at the end of one's very uncertain day. With you, comes safety and that soft place where we all want to have and few of us ever get."
• "As a recent victim of pastoral exploitation, I found your newsletter quite uplifting. In my situation, the whole ordeal became public and dealt with as an "affair" when I stepped forward for help. He lost his job, but maintained financial and emotional support for most of the year. As you can predict...I was left isolated...by everyone...even though I was once "visible" as a team worship leader, and esteemed by hundreds and hundreds of people. Last night as I went Christmas shopping, people who had once been friends with me just looked the other way and ignored me. Consequently, my shopping came to a halt...and it was in that moment I realized how alone I was this year. But when I read your newsletter, I was reminded that, indeed, I stand not alone. There are others. And for me, I'm enabled to resonate the faithfulness of my Lord throughout my soul....and to discover what I truly value. And this year...right now.....I treasure your words of encouragement. They were a gift for me! Thank-you....and have a Merry Christmas!!!!"
• "Thank you - this site gives me hope and comfort - not just at this terrible time when the world is experiencing the profound loss of innocence and perceived safety that some of us have experienced on a personal level - but each time I read your newsletter. Many thanks for the good work you do - you may not always realize the tremendous support you provide those of us who have found our way to Advocate Web."
• "I just loved the email about healing. It touched my heart and I passed it on to some of my friends. Keep up the great work!"
• "Beautifully said..."
• "Thank you .... It meant the world to me. You have a gift for articulating ideas and feelings. What a great newsletter."
• "Wise Words..."
• "You are awesome and amazing. Thank you for all you do. I hope that you will get lots of donation. I will forward your email on to other friends that might be able to help."
• "I appreciate your newsletter."
• "Thank you so much for these newsletters."
• "This is an extremely important message, thank you.  I have forwarded it on to friends and family..."
• "That is lovely news, it brought tears to my eyes."
• "I really love your AdvocateWeb HOPE eNewsletters.  They help me a lot."
• "Thank you again for the wonderful eNewsletters. They give me a sense of self-worth."
• "You always do such a nice job on your 'Messages of Hope.'  I sent this one on to the President of the ..."
• "Well said, ... I forwarded your newsletter..."
• "You are awesome. This is yet another very touching newsletter piece."
• "Very powerful message and SO inclusive and appropriate, .... Good job."
• "I thank you for this ...."
• "Very well said, ...! Thank you!"
• "I want to thank you so much for your website. It has been such a Godsend."
• "Thanks, I always look forward to your emails."
• "This is a wonderful site and I have suggested to every [one] of my peers that they tune in and pass the address on."
• "Good story."
• "This is wonderful. Thank you."
• "Great piece of writing." 
• "What a great story. I've never seen a better metaphor as to what the helping professions are all about -- and why people are vulnerable to abuse, and how easily they can be abused -- with no one noticing. Thanks for this. You made my day!"  

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