Fund Raiser Yard Sale for the Napier Family

In an effort to help our friends, the Napiers, with medical and other expenses, Brian and I decided to hold a yard sale and ask friends from care group if they wanted to join our effort. In a little more than a week, our care group, along with many from the Rhodes Care Group and other folks from Sovereign Grace Church, donated items and held a yard sale today bringing in $1,848.44!

Madison unloading items from the Coughlins.

Laura, always with a smile.

Issac and David Brown, the CRAZY, I mean kind, people who volunteered to host the yard sale.

Kerri and Stephanie made signs and put them up at 5:45 A.M.

Getting ready. We arrived to set up at 5:30 A.M. Special thanks go to Jessica and Brian Crabb, Beth Blackburn, the Brown Family, Kathy Ranfeld, Rebekah Judd, and the Wasko girls for not only being there so early, but working so hard with such great attitudes. Many thanks, too, to the Williams family, Bob Blackburn, Ginger Perron, Tina Kraft, and the Bare Family for helping with the sale. Thank you Becky Duenke for donating the newspaper ad. Also, a huge thanks to everyone who donated their stuff, let us borrow trucks, tables and ladders, and purchased items from our yard sale. 

The Browns, Williams, Wasko kids, and Karen & Ronnie Smith baked goodies and made lemonade for a "Donation Bake Sale." We think they made over $100 for our worthy cause. Many kind people paid $5 for a cookie and drink once they learned why we were hosting the yard sale.

We made a display with pictures of the Napier children and descriptions of their health challenges so that people at the yard sale understood our purpose. It was typical for people to ask us to "keep the change" or to give us more than what an item was priced. One of my favorite examples of this was a woman who bought a gift bag for 50 cents, and gave us $10. She didn't want any change. A few people didn't buy anything; they just gave us a donation. 

Coffee, Coffee, Coffee. Even a couple of the kids were allowed to drink coffee today.

Mimi Brown amazes me. Not only did she host the yard sale, but she made dinner for our family last night and had pancakes for all the workers this morning. How DOES she do it?

Stephanie and Isaac cooking the pancakes.

The Wasko and Brown kids performed tunes and dances they learned at the Hunts' Camp this summer. Below is the open violin case they used to collect donations. They did a great job!

Happy times counting the money. Did I mention that we made $1,848.44?!

Here are the kids (Thomas is missing from this picture) enjoying a hard-earned ice cream. While some of us were loading the unsold items to donate to CHKD after the yard sale, a team of these kids cleaned the Browns' house--vacuuming, dusting, bathrooms and all. What a great group of kids! What a great day!