I've learned that volunteering, being a board member, and helping using whatever financial support or cultural talents you may have is good for the soul. Here is a list of organizations that have my focus and hope that you may also take notice and support as well. Are others that you think I should add here? Please let me know.

• McHenry County Music Center, home of the McHenry County Youth Orchestras


• See Theology on Tap (TOT), part of The Young Adult Ministry of Chicago, for recent article on their activities, upcoming anniversary, and pic of my friend, Julie Hurt, praying in a beautiful Chicago church http://curiousinchicago.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/theology-series-sets-its-sights-on-30th-anniversary-next-year/


• Northern Volunteers Group (NVG) Northern Volunteers Group (NVG) was founded in the Northern Region, Tamale by Jallal Muhsin to work with children, women and the communities to improve the quality of life through Education, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development, Vocational training, and HIV/AIDS campaign education in some of the poorest part of the country by involving both volunteers within the country as well as international volunteers. For more information please see http://nvgghana.webnode.com/about-us/