Last weekend our church here in Summerland had a yard sale for Rain Happens Ministries and all the proceeds went toward Gary purchasing a shed to use as his office in Ireland. We will put the shed in the back yard and wire it up with electricity. Except for a toilet Gary could live out there. I'll have to figure out how to remidy that. This is a pic similar to the one we are concidering. Well we were over blessed and the yard sale raised over $3000.00. That is almost half of the money needed for the shed. Here is a pic of two of many people who worked extremly hard for almost 24 hours straight to price and set up everything. They are Maureen Wills on the left,(it was her idea) and Anne Bloomfield.
The sunday school kids also had a bake sale for Rain Happens and all the proceeds would go to Sunday school material for Ireland, that is what the orange sign says, click on the pic to make it larger and they raised over $400.00. This was no small feat as most items were selling for around $2.00-$4.00. This was all part of a day that the church was having called Love That Works. We also had many people in the community recieve help with such things as yard clean up and house work, free hair cuts and car washes. Here is a pic of Steve and Stephanie Erdt with their daughter Jocelyn working hard washing cars (wearing their Rain Happens t-shirts I might add). They are seriously concidering moving to Ireland for up to 5 years to see how they can help grow Gods kingdom there. Their other daughter,Danielle, is the little one in blue at the bake sale table who also worked hard with her brother, Evan, selling baked goods. Shanaya, Danielle and Evan got up at 6:30 am to start selling baked goods at 7. That is a servants heart. Our girls are very happy at the prospect of them going to Ireland as these are two of their best friends.