Crazy Links I Love (updated)

Categorized | My Crazy Stuff

Tags | Adoption, adoption fundraisers, missions

Posted on 02 May 2011 by Kari Gibson

This is YOUR personal shout out for your adoption and missions fundraisers!! My Crazy Adoption brings the craziness straight to you- sending readers to check out your links!

If you have a special project, fundraiser, or blog post you want to share with my crazy readers, please leave a comment with all your information and permalink (example: http://agoodkindofcrazy.blogspot.com/2011/03/american-girl-doll-giveaway.html) to take readers directly to your site. Leave your own “write up!”

You can also email me during the week and personally request to share your projects on Crazy Links I Love weekly post. Please limit to adoption, missions, or orphan care fundraisers. I want to help you get the word out there in blog land!

YOU INSPIRE ME!!

1. Simply Love in Action- A Silent Auction and Fundraiser to benefit the Cabeen Family’s Adoption in Africa:

Sunday, May 22nd
3:00pm – 5:00pm Coffee House on Main Please join us for an afternoon of art, apparel and awareness. Silent auction items to include beautiful artwork, hand crafted items, giftbaskets, season theater tickets and more! T-shirts, bags, and scarves will also be available for sale. All donations to benefit the Cabeen Family adoption. www.bringinghomeourfamily.blogspot.com

2. I’m selling some SWEET t-shirts to help fund our adoption. Check them out on our blog! To the praise of His glorious grace” Rachel Vander Wall. Purchase tees here.

3. Adoptive mom Julie Gumm has just published her book “Adopt Without Debt: Creative Ways to Cover the Cost of Adoption.” Woven through the telling of their debt-free adoption journey, Julie shares how to find extra money in your household budget, apply for grants, and fundraise in order to build your family without saddling it with debt. With over $65,000 worth of creative fundraising ideas from more than 25 adoptive families. Visit www.adoptwithoutdebt.com for more information and to order.

4. After years of trying to continue to grow our family we have decided to adopt domestically. To help raise funds we have had wristbands made up. The Lord laid Matthew 25:40 on our hearts:

Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done [it] unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done [it] unto me.

We love that Jesus made it simple. Even if we do it UNTO ONE we have done it to Him. There are so many hurting people in the world and we have the privilege to serve Jesus by serving them. We opted to not specify adoption on our wristbands as there are so many different ways to minister to the “least,” whether it be orphan care, prison ministry, elder and widow care… the list goes on and on.

If you’re interested in helping us toward bringing our little one home our wristbands can be purchased for $5 each. Please add $1 for shipping. The wristband has Unto One on one side and Matthew 25:40 on the other. To order or for more info email us at daneandjessharvey@gmail.com or visit our blog at www.overwhelmedbyhisgrace.blogspot.com.

5. After watching “Black Gold” and seeing the plight of the Ethiopian Coffee Farmers, we partnered with adoptive friends to buy several hundred pounds of Ethiopian coffee (fair trade) that we’re roasting in small batches and selling in hopes of raising funds for our adoption. We have passed court and are on the final stretches before Embassy and trusting God for the final pennies to travel back to get our son, Josiah. You can read more about our story and donate here: http://koppweb.com/one27-coffee/

http://thebrownbrigade.com Audrey @ The Brown Brigade

We have been matched with twins from Uganda, so we are fundraising now. We are partnering with Simply Love, Ordinary Hero, and Promise 686. Lots of items available.
http://www.moms4change.net Danielle Brower

I volunteer with Children’s HopeChest as a sponsorship coordinator for Bheveni Carepoint in Swaziland, Africa. Swaziland has the highest rate of HIV/AIDS anywhere in the world – over 40% of the population is now infected. A 15 year old child is considered middle-aged. That is their reality. They need us now more than ever.

We are not funded/supported through a local church body. Instead we are a group of individuals all connected through Facebook, who care for the near 150 kids at Bheveni. When orphans & vulnerable kids come to Bheveni, they find a safe place to play, to learn about life & Jesus’ love, to be fed daily, to drink clean water & to be given HOPE for a better future.

Ground to Cup Coffee has partnered with Bheveni and for every pound of coffee sold they will give 40% back towards our missions trip to Swaziland to see all our kiddos!

Here is the link to the online coffee store! (I’ve sampled several and they are DELISH!!! My favorite is the Colombian Organic flavor!)

http://www.groundtocupcoffee.com/online-store/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=COFFEE&Screen=PLST&Affiliate=BheveniCarepoint

Here’s the link to the G2C blogpost about Bheveni as their newest partner!
http://groundtocupcoffee.blogspot.com/2011/04/g2c-partners-with-bheveni-carepoint-in.html

Check out both links! Then feel free to follow our journey via Facebook – search for Bheveni Carepoint group & we’ll gladly add you to our growing community of people who pray & love on our precious kids!!!

Thanks Kari for this shameless promotion of ourselves! ‘
Danielle Brower
daniellebrower@gmail.com
http://www.addingtotheandrews.blogspot.com Ashlee

We are currently fundraising to help bring home two children from Uganda, a toddler and an older child! We are selling handmade Ugandan items as well as a few other baby/child items that are brand new and a GREAT deal. Check out http://addingtotheandrews.blogspot.com/2011/04/shop-o-rama.html
Thank you for your support!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1621111757 Jessica Cabeen

on our website-please click on TSHIRTS and Totes to purchase your own Simply Love T-shirt or way cool tote–thanks KARI!!
http://profiles.google.com/zandmmiller Michelle Zach Miller

http://lifeincary.blogspot.com/2011/04/yummy-fundraiser.html
We are having a Tastefully Simple party open till May6th. Our consultant is donating her 25% to us!! It is all online so anyone can order. Check out the details on the post above. We are adoption for Uganda!
Afirstmom

http://abirthmom.blogspot.com/

Some of my experience as a birth mom
http://profiles.google.com/daneandjessharvey Jessica Harvey

Thanks for spotlighting our wristbands! As I mentioned how cool it would be to send them out all over the country/world! http://www.overwhelmedbyhisgrace.blogspot.com