The Impact of a Letter and Its Writer

Rilla Unger, a member of the Intertribal Life Ministries team, was a picture of faithfulness-writing letters to her treasured, incarcerated friends until she could hold a pen no more, shortly before her death in February. She may have been 97 years old, but she was still committed to the outreach she started so many years earlier.

Rilla served as a volunteer for ILM since the late 1980s, when founder George McPeek couldn't keep up with the onslaught of correspondence, many of the letters from prisoners, since Intertribal Life newspaper (then Indian Life) has always been delivered to prisons ac...

 
 
 
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