Honduras

Yesterday we held another fundraiser for Honduras.  We had a simultaneous car wash and part two of the rummage sale at the church.  It was a decent success (made ~$1350).  I really appreciated all the help from the congregation and from all the hard work from the participants of the trip.  We’re approaching halfway to our fundraising goal of approximately $20k.  God is good and we trust in Him for all our provisions.  Happy Easter!

We have been working on raising money for our mission trip to Honduras this summer.  We have over 20k to raise so there’s a good bit of work to do.  Our first big event was a rummage sale.  We collected donations from people in our church to sell.  I was overwhelmed in both the quantity and quality of items donated.  The only real downside was storing all of it in our house.  It was easy when Beth was in New York but I think she was a little less than pleased to come home to piles of stuff covering our house.  We filled our spare bedroom and our entire family/dining room.  On the Thursday before the sale we had a group meeting and a few people came to our house to start pricing.  I forgot to take a picture after more stuff came in on Friday but this one will give you an idea of the mayhem that was our house.

The sale was on Saturday and after a long day of final pick-ups and a late night celebrating a good friend’s graduation and job we got an early start on very little sleep.

Even if you plead with people not to show up early some just never get it.  We had people there as we were still bringing items out of the house.  They did buy 8 TVs from us so I guess it’s not that bad, but still. We were able to get everything out and the crowd was pretty constant.  We probably averaged 15-20 people at all times (from 7am to 2pm) and we pretty much had to run people off as we took the sale down around 4pm.

The sale was pretty successful (we made ~$3000) but it sure was exhausting.  It would have been a little better if Arizona had pulled off the buzzer beater against UConn, but I guess you can’t get everything.  Now we’re selling some of the leftover items on Craigslist and planning our next fundraiser, a car wash on April 9th.  Hopefully it will be successful.

Tonight was the Honduran dinner we planned as a fundraiser for our upcoming Honduras Mission Trip.  The dinner was a great success and everyone seemed to love the Honduran food we prepared.  The entire team (Ross, Christina, Donna, Mary Frances, Beth and Myself) all worked very hard and we definitely appreciated the abundant help from Debbie Ferg and Susie Blankley.  I know Beth and I had a lot of fun in the kitchen preparing all the food.  The night also raised a good bit more money than I had originally expected (God is good!) and we are now approaching being fully funded.