Hi
Thanks for writing so fast, what is confusing is that it came from something called Ministry Matters . I never communicated with that name And I was guessing someone sold or shared my email address with them. Is this part of Cokesbury?
I did reply to their email in a couple of ways and some way you got one instead. I just went to the "manage preferences" on their email and saw this today, I think it was different the other day. They must have removed me . If I ever signed up I do not remember, and I searched all my emails - I do not delete them - and find no other emails involving Captive Churches or Ministry Matters except for a return receipt from sraynor@umpublishing.org . . .so it looks like there is a Methodist connection with same email address. I noticed the email was pushing a book ......
so, are they (Ministry Matters) part of Cokesbury?
I put the email below. If not there, try this link as I put it on my Blog
http://instructionsbydon.blogspot.com/2012/04/20120404-ministry-matters.html
Don
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On 4/4/2012 9:11 AM, Cokesbury.com wrote:
It sounds like you might have gotten some type of auto-generated email, but since you didn't include the message with your reply I am not sure what you are referring to. Was there an order number? If you would reply to that email, instead of starting a new correspondence that might help us to better understand your concerns.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Why did you send this to me? Did I request something from you and that is why you are writing or did you swipe my address from a church?
thanks
don
On 4/3/2012 5:16 PM, Ministry Matters wrote:
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On 4/4/2012 9:11 AM, Cokesbury.com wrote:
It sounds like you might have gotten some type of auto-generated email, but since you didn't include the message with your reply I am not sure what you are referring to. Was there an order number? If you would reply to that email, instead of starting a new correspondence that might help us to better understand your concerns.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
what have I ordered from you?
don I am trying to figure out why you emailed me today.
thanks
don
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