Amazon has recently given us an option that 
								we could not refuse: If you shop their website 
								using smile.amazon.com (known as "AmazonSmile"), instead of 
								amazon.com, 
								they will donate a percentage of your purchase 
								price to the charity of your choice (which can 
								be the Mission)!  It is 
								not much now, but if millions do this, it will 
								be a good amount for the Mission 
								to use.
								To select the Mission as 
								your charity and begin shopping, use the link on 
								our
								
								donations page.  After you do this 
								once, AmazonSmile should remember your charity 
								choice, so you can just go directly to 
								smile.amazon.com, from then on (it will show your 
								choice in the top left of the page).  Make 
								sure you remember to order whatever you are 
								buying from AmazonSmile, not Amazon (it is easy 
								to forget), and see that your donation goes to 
								the Mission of Maitreya.  
								Hopefully this will amount to something 
								substantial.  However, even one extra 
								dollar will help.
								It seems the Mission has 
								eventually reached the point of focusing on 
								practical considerations, as many of these 
								announcements concentrate on expansion of our 
								business aspects, such as creating products and 
								bringing money to the Mission.  
								Money is an important part of the Mission of 
								God.  There has never been a successful 
								religion without sufficient financial support!