We love to cook and entertain our friends and family. What better way to combine that with the $20 project. We decided to use our combined $40 and provide a dinner for friends with the stipulation that this was a fund raiser for our two projects: Union Gospel Mission Thanksgiving Dinners and Spokane School District 81 Lunch Box Donations. We decided that our donations would be split between our two causes. Invitations were sent out for a dinner with a Free Will Offering Donation for Dinner. Our kind friends enjoyed a lasagna dinner and fellowship while helping us raise $260.00 for our two projects. My husband worked for a manufacturer of licensed children's dinnerware and is now working for a school district. The employee sale at the old job gave him the opportunity to purchase 175 children's lunch bags (which usually retail for up to $1500-2000 total) for 25 cents each. Our five cartons of lunch bags in our garage as well as needed school supplies will be going to children of Spokane School District. My husband spent $72.00 for the lunch bags and school supplies and I took checks totaling $188 to the Union Gospel Mission to help feed people on Thanksgiving. UGM says they can feed these meals for $1.79 each so I assume our donation will cover around 105 meals.
We thank God for the opportunity to share this bounty with his earthly children.
No comments:
Post a Comment