Josh and I are pumped to announce our first fundraising endeavor to start raising the money needed to adopt the next member of our family from Ethiopia! And the great news-- YOU can help without spending a single penny!! That's right, you can help with this particular fundraising effort without spending a dime! Here is how:
Okay, so I know many of you are nerdy like me (Amber) and have tons of books! Many I am sure you have enjoyed, but now don't know what to do with them. Some of your books you haven't read, but they have been sitting on a shelf for a year or two and you know that the likelihood of you actually reading them is zilch! So, we are asking that you send your books our direction!! We will take almost anything! (NO porno or books on witchcraft please!) Fiction, non fiction, textbooks etc.
Students- consider donating your textbooks for a semester instead of participating in a book buy back program. Non-students, clean out those bookshelves to make room for your next trip to Barnes & Noble!
What we will be doing, is selling the donated books online for a reduced price to help them sell and then 100% of the profit goes into our fundraising account! One hundred percent people! That is huge in the land of fundraising!
If there are books that are donated that do not sell over the course of 12 months, we will donate them to a different good cause so the books continue to bless others.
Won't you please consider helping us out?? We are so grateful for your prayer support and the kind words sent our direction after making the "announcement" to adopt.
If you are interested in donating books please email me at arohde@epic-church.org and we will work together to get the books to my house. My mom has already secured about FIVE boxes of gently used books to get us started! (Insert Kudos to my mom for coming up with this fundraising idea!) Anyway, tell everyone you know & get us your books!
Blessings,
Amber
P.S.
Just a little something to think about: to adopt a child from Ethiopia, we will be raising support to the amount of $28,000. That looks like a HUGE amount of money; however about 180 of our friends & family read the blog post about our announcement to adopt- that could potentially break the $28,000 down to about $155 bucks a person if everyone who read it donated! Donating $155 could come from giving up a latte 1x a week for one year! This doesn't make the $28,000 so impossible anymore does it?? :) If you are attached to your books and want to help us with a cash donation instead; feel free to email me about that too!
No comments:
Post a Comment