On August 30, at 5:30PM the our students are hosting a Dinner/Silent Auction to raise money for Just Add Power.  This will be our final Just Add Power event and we need it to go great to reach our goal of $10,000. We’re especially hoping the auction will be a big success.  That is where you come in.

If you have a new item (examples – gift basket, gift card, sports memorabilia, decorative item, etc.) or service that you’d be willing to donate, we’d love to include it in our silent auction.  We’re trying to collect everything by Sunday, August 23rd so we can get everything prepared during the following week.

If you’ve got an item, service, etc that you’d like to donate please contact Dawn Oettel to let her know and include a description of what you’re planning to give.  Thanks in advance for helping make this a great wrap up to an incredible summer project!

As we wrap up the month of July we’re just a few dollar short of $8,000.  Keep it up guys and we’ll hit our goal of $10,000 before the end of the summer!

There are several ways you can help us reach our goal coming up in the next few weeks:

• Consider donating an item or service to our silent auction to be held in conjunction with the dinner on August 30th.
• Bring your family to one of our remaining fundraiser nights and to the dinner on the 30th.
• Encourage the Jr. Highers you see to keep it up and find creative ways to raise money on their own.
• Make a donation yourself and pray for our efforts to provide power to this school in Kenya.

After our incredible weekend and the terrific garage sale, our new total…

We had an AMAZING day today at our Just Add Power Garage Sale. We had hundreds of visitors come through our doors to buy everything from full size basketball hoops & giant entertainment centers to antique playing cards & lots of baked goods.

There was such buzz about the sale that we had people lining up just after 7am and we had lots of traffic throughout the day. Thanks to so many great people who brought In donations we had the gym and cafeteria completely full of terrific stuff. None of it would have been possible though without Melissa Simpson (she coordinated he entire thing) and our incredible group of volunteers, some of whom worked up to 20 hours in the last two days alone.

In the end we managed to bring in $5,500 just today and we sent tons and tons of donations over to the Salvation Army. That brings our summer total close to $7,800. With a month left to go and our dinner/auction still coming up I am hopeful that we will not only reach our goal but that God will totally blow us away in the process. We serve an awesome God!

Checkout a few pictures and also this video of our day.

We are looking for the help of some boys, their brothers and or/their dads (really anyone strong).  Kevin Hughs is leading a team of guys both Wednesday and Thursday from 6-8PM.  They’re taking pick up trucks around town to pick up large items that people want to donate to our sale.

Even if you don’t have a truck that is ok.  We’re mainly just looking for strong arms.  If you’re willing to help for a while, give Kevin a call on his cell at 306-5567.

On June 6th at our Just Add Power Overnighter we got the chance to talk to several of the kids who live at the Joska school we’re working to raise money for.  This is a condensed version (only 4 minutes) of our conversation with them.

Our Sale is THIS WEEK and there is lots going on to get ready.  We’ve updated our Sale portion of the website so be sure you check it out but here are the highlights:

• Wednesday – Baking night in the Cafeteria from 6-9PM
• Wednesday – Guys doing large item pick ups from 6-8PM
• Thursday – Guys doing large item pick ups from 6-8PM
• Friday – Students moving and sorting donations (free pizza lunch and games afterward) from 10AM-3PM
• Friday – Adults & families pricing and organizing from 3-9PM
• Saturday – Sale in the gym from 8AM-1PM (groups in shifts from 7:45-10:30 and 10:30-1:30)
• Saturday – At 1PM we’ll load all of the left over items into a Salvation Army truck

There are lots of ways you can help (and we need it!) so please check out the Garage Sale link on the right hand side of the page.

With our garage sale coming up this weekend I thought we’d update everyone on where we’re at so far.  The total after our first 6 weeks of offerings and our car wash is…

The next fundraiser for our project is THIS SUNDAY, July 12th at the Montvale Pizza Hut on Chatham Rd.  From 11AM-9PM, Pizza Hut will donate 20% of all of their sales to our project if we bring in a copy of this flyer.  Be sure to print one out or pick it up at church.

Don’t miss this terrific chance for your family to have fun, eat dinner and donate to our cause all at the same time! 

We’ve got several other Fundraiser Nights coming up so be sure you add them to your family calendar as well.