Permission

We are giving you permission.

Hopefully by now you've read our story.  You know our hearts and what God's been doing.  You see the need and want to lend a hand.

We give you permission to do so.  We recognize that we are not the most creative people.  We don't have all the good ideas.  We also don't have time to undertake every idea that we come up with.  On top of all of that...we are very aware that we have a lot of creative minded friends and family who live near and far.

We have no problems at all with you brainstorming and carrying out ways to help us.

Maybe you want to hold an event.  A 5k run.  A dodgeball tournament.  A bike ride.  A dinner.  A rally.  A street carnival.  A costume party.  A contest of some sort.  A triathalon.  Whatever.  We give you permission to do it.  We don't even have to be there.  You can read here what our story is.  You can tell that story. You can share what we're doing.  You can share this blog.

Here's the other thing.  Maybe you are part of a group or organization.  Maybe you'd like us to come and speak to you about adoption, the world wide orphan situation, what's going on in Ethiopia, what God's been doing in our lives over the last couple months and years, etc.  We (Aaron probably....since he's the talker) would love to set that up.  It will take some advanced planning of schedules to make it happen, so please contact us WELL in advance of what you're planning.  Sunday mornings are hard as we are very committed to our church family...but they're not 100% out of the question if that's the only time that works with you.

OR maybe you can combine the two.  Maybe you're going to hold an event and would like us to be there to tell our story or to be visible or to pass our cards with our picture and blog site on it.  We can work that out too...obviously lots of advance warning is needed.

We would ask that you DON'T hold a raffle, or Bingo or anything of that nature though.  We're not big fans of gambling or games of chance.  While we know that most raffles are guaranteed profitable, we'd rather just avoid that please.

So brainstorm.  Be creative.  Can you help us reach our goal?
Ready. Set. Go.