| Sunday, November 11, 2007 |
| Bravo! |
a shout out to all who were there today to help out with the present-a-present drive! thank you for having the willing heart and discipline to rock up early in church to reach people and get them to sign up. for the first day, i think we've signed up 30 people or so :) we're targeting everyone, so the harvest is still out there guys!
this initaitive will be running over the next three weeks, and i'll redo the rosters for next week since some people will be away.
some upcoming plans for the initiative would be:
- shoe boxes -- for people who don't have shoe boxes and do not have the time or drive to find one, we're going to sell them shoe boxes. that means that we'll be looking for members of our HC to donate any extra unwanted shoe boxes that they have. we'll probably sell it at 50 cents each :) so if you have any show boxes, please bring them either to HC on saturday, or even better, bring it to church on sunday.
- gift-wrapping service and selling of present paper -- this is again for people who love convenience and have no time to wrap their presents or simply suck at wrapping presents. if they want to use their present paper, they can bring their own and we will provide the service for free. but if they don't have present paper, we will be selling it. so they can buy from us and we'll provide the service for free.
- fund-raising/incentive - i'm hoping for initiative from whoever is willing to bake muffins, cupcakes, cookies or cakes to sell and also give out at the counter. let me know by thursday if you're going to bake anything to sell. we can reimburse the people who bake if the consensus is that they would like to be fully/partially reimbursed, or just make it a tithe for the month. the earnings that we make from selling these desserts/shoe boxes/present paper will be channeled into baking more, and giving away a free dessert (or two?) to those who bring back a present. so when someone gives you their present at the counter, they get to choose dessert(s) for free. i'm hoping that this would encourage people to respond quicker...hehehe when food is involved. why buy a muffin when you can get one for free the next week right. but then again, we don't want them to think that way ;) just know when to give the flip side of the coin i guess. we want people to buy the desserts so we can give back to them. any extra earnings, we can either put it into the HC fund, or just use it to buy more presents for the kids. key is not profit, but giving back. be it to society or for your active efforts in making this initiative a community thing.
right now i have a picture of all of us sitting around tables, on floors, cracking jokes, eating some junk food, ordering pizza in while we wrap present after present, present after present, till they're all done. and i'm strangely excited, i feel this rush because i know even though i'll be tired at the end of the pig out/gift-wrapping session, there will be some kind of inexplicable satisfaction from just sitting with you all, doing stuff while having random weird conversations.
before most of you leave for somewhere, some time, i'm looking forward to spending more time with you guys. will miss you all.
love you guys.
p.s.: pheeeeeeeeeeeeeeebsssss, i'll miss you a lot. muahhhs.
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