The makings of an African Dinner....

From 2 in the afternoon until well after 10 last evening there was busyness in every corner of the church in preparation for tonight's fundraiser Dinner.

Bethany was a HUGE help to me as we began to put together a

walk-thru African Experience Display.

SOMEONE suggested we put those large pictures in the elevator to save ourselves

from running back and forth to the basement...SOMEONE had no idea how

small the elevator is and how LARGE the pictures are!!!

The pictures, though vinyl, were really alot harder to put up than it looks! We used
more than the normal amount of staples and thumb tacks for this project!
Mike Rankin's supply of Duct Tape rescued us a few times, too!!!
(THANKS MIKE, I'm pretty sure we owe you!)

Can your heart just melt over that little boy in the background?!? So precious....

....the beginnings of an African hut!

....the beginnings of a hospital....

There are still last minute touches to be completed...another afternoon of details...but we are so grateful to each one who has given up ALOT of time to these details in the last few weeks. I believe with my whole heart that God is in this evening...we hope to raise a good amount of money towards the $54,000 we need to raise, but beyond that, we've been blessed to work together and grow as a team. Whether or not the evening is as "profitable" as we'd like, we pray those who enter the building will be blessed because they've been there. Blessed because they've caught a glimpse of why we're going to Africa in the first place. Blessed because they've seen people through a different set of lenses....lenses of 18 plain, ordinary people who have a desire to take God's LOVE to the people of Africa.

Jesus said, "Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and muscle and intelligence—and that you love your neighbor as well as you do yourself."

Luke 10:27