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M <br />St. Church of the Nazarene <br />Dear Santa Ana City Council Members: <br />Hello, my name is Rebeca Rivas, and I am the secretary of the Santa Ana Edinger Church <br />of the Nazarene. Our church has been in this community since 1961. Our church is <br />surrounded by Diamond Elementary School, Carr Intermediate School and Valley High <br />school. Our congregation has always known the importance of community, and the <br />importance in providing opportunities to children and youth from our wonderful city. <br />Unfortunately, many of our community families are not able to afford to take their <br />children to summer camps. In many of our families there are multiple children and find it <br />hard to send one child to summer camp let alone three. TNT Fireworks has allowed our <br />church to open the door to wonderful camp experiences. Experiences that will stay with <br />them and create lifelong memories. Memories that can shape and mold the mind for the <br />positive. After the first year of selling fireworks, the church saw how much we were able <br />to provide for our youth. Not only the adults saw but the youth saw as well. The <br />following year, those youth now old enough to work at the stands, were signing up to <br />help volunteer to sell fireworks. They saw how the TNT fireworks booth opened exciting <br />new opportunities. For instance, sending youth to a weeklong camp, which they would <br />never have been able to attend without the profit from the TNT firework stand. All the <br />profits go directly to the Youth of our community here in Santa Ana. Banning fireworks <br />would be detrimental to our Youth because they would no longer be able to participate in <br />summer camps. We would not be able to raise these funds for our youth without the help <br />of TNT. Raising this money with out TNT would be out of our reach. Youth who <br />participate in summer camps learn many lifelong skills like teamwork, resilience and <br />confidence. These skills will allow our youth to be strong members of society. TNT has <br />been a blessing to many nonprofit organizations. <br />Sincerely, <br />Rebeca Rivas Secretary <br />Joel Ortiz Pastor <br />