We’ve had a tremendous outpouring of support for our trip. After my last post about our fundraising, we’ve had a $10 donation, a $200 check put in the mail, and a $200 check handed to us. God has provided all of the money that we need for our trip and then some. The extra will go to help out others on the trip or to Beza.
I don’t yet have a final list of the folks who have donated, but I want to recognize all of them by name when I get it. I’ll just be posting the names, not the amounts, but if you’ve given something and you don’t want that fact to be made public, please let me know. However, I really would like to honor you in this way. You’ve been a huge blessing to us, and we are very grateful.
Please feel free to celebrate with us in the comments!
I have exciting news to share. Rachel and I only need another $200 for our trip to Ethiopia.
I’ll be honest, I had been worried that we were going to write a large check to get there. Thanks to all of you who gave for your generosity. We’re excited to go and to share with all of you what God does while we are there. Only 16 more days!
I just went to the Obama website and saw their donor counter. They’re very close to 1 million donors. I went back an hour later and it had increased by about 1000 people. It seems to have slowed down a bit now. I checked it 5 minutes later and it had 45 new donors. Even at that lower rate of 600 people an hour, that’s 9 new donors a minute or one new donor every 6 2/3 seconds, absolutely unbelievable.
Anyway, at this rate they should reach their goal by mid-afternoon today. I suppose it could take a bit longer, but I’m sure they’ll be there by tomorrow. Their take for this month is going to be insane. Some are predicting as much as $60-70 million for the month.
