Posts Tagged ‘fundraising’

day of small beginnings [guest post from @justapen]

day of small beginnings [guest post from @justapen]

My wife is pregnant.  I’m told I have a grin on my face people can see a couple hundred miles away.  Now she’s not due until summer, and we’re still in the first trimester, but today is the day of small beginnings. I mean you don’t get much smaller than an embryo.  Mustard seeds look pretty good in [...]


how to plan a [garage sale for orphans]

how to plan a [garage sale for orphans]

Our family is pretty geeked about this year’s Christmas project! The needs of people in Haiti have been a special focus for us this year, and my son Samuel (the cute, red-headed one) really wanted to do something special for the kids down there. When I told him about a way that we could help [...]


the importance of play [guest post from @chrismarlow]

the importance of play [guest post from @chrismarlow]

Message from Dan King: This year for Christmas my seven year-old son wanted to do something special for someone less fortunate. And when we talked about the playground in Haiti project with Chris Marlow’s Garage Sale for Orphans, we knew it was exactly what we wanted to take on. You can read more about what [...]


all i want for Christmas…

all i want for Christmas…

My seven (and a half) year old son picked up the gift catalog from Heifer International and asked me what it was for. So I explained to him that people like us could buy things that people in very poor places need as a Christmas gift. And because they don’t have much, then buying a [...]


how to have a successful mission trip fundraiser

I wish that I could afford to just pay for myself (and my family) to go on missions trips all the time. BUT…   I live in the same reality that most of you do. Too often there is not enough month left at the end of the money… Even if I did have the money, [...]

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