No paper has covered Terri's story as well and as accurately as the Florida Baptist Witness.

God bless you all.

I am asking you to help stop an injustice and to use your personal circle of influence to assist Eagle Scouts that you know, like me, to lobby to pass federal legislation this year. The legislation has one goal: To ensure that Boy Scouts in the United States will be able to continue their historic 95-year-old practice to camp on public lands, meet in public facilities and participate in public forums and programs.

This federal legislation, "Support Our Scouts Act of 2005," is being filed by Eagle Scout and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) to protect the Boy Scouts of America from discrimination and legal attacks sought to bankrupt scouting organizations and deny equal access by scouts to public facilities, forums and programs of federal, state and local governments.

First, you get an e-mail telling you that someone has died, or someone is dying who has a lot of money, anywhere from $15 million to $20 million, they want to donate to the Lord's work. It will say that you can keep some of it for your own personal expenses. They suggest 40 percent. Then you are on your honor to help other needy Christians with the other 60 percent. Then you receive a phone call asking you if you got the e-mail.

What they want you to do to receive the money is to pay a bank transfer fee and/ or vault storage fee varying from $2,000 to $5,000. If you send the money, you never hear from them again.

I personally have received about 15 of these letters. Each one is different, but they all carry a similar story, and each one has a different set of phone numbers and e-mail addresses. Many of the voices sound the same.

They talk the talk of a Christian and will appeal to your faith and compassion for those in need.

They are very convincing, but don't send them any money you can't afford to give away. And, don't count on getting rich.

They put on this 10-day party that sees thousands of people go through the gates. Booths sold just about everything, from crafts with strawberry themes to demonstration of Native American flute and stringed instrumental music, and the festival featured typical "fair stuff" with pigs and cows and ducks and chickens—a queen and her court—and major entertainment every evening with two shows.

The associational booth was set up to share a cup of cold water and the Gospel. When I left the event on Thursday afternoon, more than fifty people had come to Christ!

Thanks, Central Baptist Church of Richmond, Ind., for allowing me to go. The Eastern Indiana Baptist Association looks forward to helping our sister association in Florida with this event next year—doing partnership missions!

We have fought the good fight here, but the battle rages on. We ask that you encourage your readers to support Rep. Randy Johnson's bill to repeal Amendment 4.

Senate Bill 1096 and House Bill 319, known as "The Freedom to Worship Safely Act," calls for the upgrading of the degree of an offense that involves the use of threat of physical force or violence against any individual if the offense is committed at a location where a religious institution is conducting a religious service. For instance, if an individual commits a misdemeanor of the second degree in a place of worship, the offense would then be reclassified as a misdemeanor of the first degree.

The members of the Florida Mainstream Democrats believe faith and moral convictions are the centerpiece to our communities. Mainstream Democrat members understand that people of faith make vital contributions to our communities and our quality of life, and they must be protected in their places of worship.

"The Freedom to Worship Safely Act" is receiving bipartisan support.