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Our primary activity is the cultivation and
planting of trees. This is ongoing. Through the
organization of the Church, we hope to accelerate our
planting of trees.
Our main secondary activity is to work towards
establishing an industry of papermaking from
appropriate fiber sources (e.g., kenaf, hemp, rice,
straw, etc.) to relieve trees from the assaults of the
pulp and paper industry for wood chips.
As a hand paper maker, I experiment with
alternative fibers and am ready to proceed to
papermaking on a larger scale as a pilot project for
the future.
Thereafter, a period of correspondence ensued between
respondent and petitioner concerning petitioner's support and
activities in which petitioner engaged or proposed to engage. In
1994, in response to inquiries from respondent, petitioner
indicated that it was willing to amend its charter of
organization in certain respects and enclosed a proposed draft of
language for such amendment. Nevertheless, the record does not
show that such amendment to petitioner's articles of organization
was ever adopted. In April 1994, respondent notified petitioner
that she proposed to rule adversely to petitioner's request for
exemption on the grounds, inter alia, that it was not a church.
In May 1994, petitioner protested this proposed ruling.
Nevertheless, on January 10, 1995, respondent issued her
final adverse ruling letter, denying petitioner's request for
exemption under section 501(c)(3). In denying petitioner's
request for exemption, respondent stated:
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