Thursday, September 16, 2010

Auction Item for our Adoption!

Mrs. Martin will beautifully HAND ADDRESS your Christmas cards, baby announcements, etc... whatever style you like best!! This lady is amazingly talented and her handwriting is beautiful... you will be amazed! She can do it however you like - print, scrolly, fancy, fun, whatever. She can write your return address or you can provide labels. You will just need to provide us the envelopes and the addresses.
She can do it super early if you want to get it checked off your list! How NICE to not have to worry about this during all of the craziness surrounding the up and coming holidays!!

If you live in our area, we can deliver the envelopes to and from Mrs. Martin. If you don't, you can still bid, and we can ship them back to you, envelopes beautifully addressed and ready to stuff and mail!

Here are some examples of her work..






Send me an email with your bid (kentpjones at gmail.com), or a message on FB.

Remember, not only do you get this service, all proceeds go towards the travel expenses to bring our Ethiopian daughter home!!!!

Our Adoption

As you may know, we are adopting a little girl from Ethiopia (God knows her face and name) and one of the ways we want to try and raise some money is through a silent online auction. You may have seen it before through friends, but it is kind of a new idea since technology has become so easy to use and communicate with mass groups of people! We are blessed to know so many people that have something valuable to offer others (skill/talent/product) and have a compassionate heart for children/Christ/the orphan, and/or our family. God has surrounded us with tremendous friends/family!

I have already asked many, and so many are excited to be a part! We are extremely grateful for their generosity and willingness to help bring our little girl home!! Thank you! God has been SO good in providing what we need thus far, and we KNOW He will continue to do so, hopefully using our fundraisers! :) There are still pending expenses surrounding the adoption, but a BIG one is travel since we have to make two trips to Ethiopia. The projected expenses are approximately $8,000 - $10,000. So, our goal is to raise the funds for travel. We know it is huge, but God can do it!
Our first fundraiser is this Silent Online Auction.

So, this is how it will work... I am sending an email/message/post to all of our connections near and far of the item up for auction, and give it a certain amount of time. Whoever has the highest bid wins the product!! If you want to bid, just shoot me an email (kentpjones at gmail.com), message me on FB, or respond to an email I send and we will mark your bid down. When the allotted time is up, we will make the announcement of the winning bidder!!

Thank you so much for considering bidding and helping us bring our daughter home!