We had a baked goods table that Mariah worked at most of the day, and a purse table that I worked at all day. A purse table? Well several months ago we asked the ladies of The Point to donate any gently used purses they didn't want anymore and donate them to our mission trip. So we collected a ton of great purses. Saturday we sold the purses! We probably sold about 10-15 purses for $5 or $10 each, which was fantastic! We still have a ton of purses though, so we will be selling them at a garage sale that we have planned or at a scrap-booking event we have planned. :)
John came and helped with the clean up when he got done at work around 2pm. The kids were troopers and didn't complain too much Saturday, but it was a very long day. I didn't get home until 4:30pm. Then we were up bright and early the next morning, Sunday, for our marathon. The mission team plan for the day was to go to all three gatherings at The Point where we would be introduced to the church and then they would take up an offering for our trip. It was so wonderful attending three gatherings! They are three very different gatherings, and each one was just wonderful in a different way. We normally attend the 9:30am gathering, so yesterday we got to go to the 8:30 am and the 11am also. Our kids were right there with us, and we barely heard a complaint from them. It was a blessing at the 11 am gathering to see some friends from Central Baptist Church visiting, and we got to visit with them and sit with them. Then also at that gathering, Pastor Josh had the church gather around the mission team and pray for us. Wow, what a moment. It was amazing. So we were done with all the gatherings around 12:45pm, but the marathon was not over.
After all the gatherings we had a mission trip meeting, so we all drove over to the church office and quickly ate some subway and then skyped with Dan Smither's (Key of Hope missionary in South Africa). He talked more in detail about what was planned for our trip, and we got to ask him questions. It was really great. Our airline tickets are going to be bought soon, so we will have definite dates for our trip very soon. Airline tickets have gone up quite a bit, so we are now looking at spending about $2,200 on each ticket. Our ticket money is due next Sunday, April 3rd. That would be $4,400 for John and I. I think we are up to $1,400 in our personal fundraising (thank you thank you thank you to all who have donated!!), and we will find out this week where we are at in our group fundraising. We will have to come up with the rest on our own and cut a check this week. So if you were thinking of donating towards our trip . . . this is the week to do it!! All the info is on our donation page, but if you have any questions you can email me also, jeewbee@me.com.
So our marathon Sunday ended at about 3pm when we got back in home, exhausted. It really was such a great weekend though! :)
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