Dear Church of St. Mary,

Hello! My name is Darcy Higgins and I'm a summer intern at Catholic Relief Services (CRS). One of my assignments this summer is to increase awareness of CRS.

Our goal is to gain more visibility in the Catholic community by asking parishes in the United States to provide a link to http://crs.org on their website. The more links that we have, the higher our Google search engine ranking will be and the easier it will be to find the CRS website. This is important because greater awareness will enable more people to learn about CRS' work to alleviate human suffering around the world.

You're probably familiar with CRS, but if not, here is a brief overview. CRS has served as an official international relief and development agency of the US Catholic community since 1943. Under the direction of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, we aid the poor in 98 countries both by providing direct assistance and by working with partner organizations to alleviate the causes of poverty and social injustice. For our full mission statement or details, you can visit the website.

In doing my research, I noticed that your parish maintains an informative website. Would your parish be willing to partner with CRS by adding Catholic Relief Services to the "Links" section of your website? [As a result of this letter, we have.]

Thank you so much and have a blessed day!

Darcy Higgins
Catholic Relief Services
Intern