My friend Kyra came up with a brilliant plan to help me raise money for my trip to South Africa. We're having a garage sale! It wasn't easy to pick a date because the trip is coming up quickly and there's a lot going on in the next few weeks, but the BIG Garage Sale Day is going to be September 20th. If anyone has items laying around the house that they'd like to donate, let me know and I'll make arrangements with you to get them over to Kyra's house. There are several people on my South Africa team that need to raise money too. I'm only planning to use the bare minimum of what I need from the profits of this sale and I'll gladly split the rest among the people on my team who need it. So the more items we have, the better! If we knock it out of the park and make lots of money, we can always use the rest to purchase items for the people in South Africa. We found out today that each of us can bring one suitcase for ourselves and then we'll also be carrying another suitcase with items needed at The Pines. Some of the things we'll be bringing with us are clothing, toothbrushes, toothpaste, hand sanitizer, and some stuffed animals for the sick children at the hospital. It's so sad how many things we take for granted that are luxury items to people who have nothing. I can't imagine a hospital in America where the children are all alone with no family and don't even have a toy to comfort them.
This is going to be a life changing trip and I already have a feeling that God's going to show me just how many trivial things in my life I spend WAY too much time worrying about. I really appreciate everyone's support as I prepare for this experience. I'm already going through a range of emotions from excitement to scared to death and it means everything to me to have my friends and family cheering me on and believing I can do it. Everything we're doing on this trip is to show the people of South Africa God's love and amazing power to change lives and every time I get words of encouragement and support from the people close to me (and even from strangers), I feel God's love and power too. Thanks for helping me pay it forward.
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Joe and I are going to try to get motivated and go through our storage area, cause I know there is some stuff that we need to get rid of in there. I'll let you know what we come up with. Let me know if you need help working the garage sale or anything. Good luck!
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