Thursday, June 5, 2008

Development and Fundraising

We have been so blessed to be working with a lady from OKC First that is basically an expert when it comes to fundraising and development for non-profit organizations. She used to do this for a huge evangelical organization and has raised tons of money to help people. She started helping us about two months ago and little by little has begun to make her presence felt in very powerful ways. She's been helping us put together a ten year celebration event and we've seen amazing things happen already with that. She took a day off from her "other job" today and came and did a workshop with our leadership group on development and fundraising and just did a phenomenal job. God continues to bring people our way in really cool ways!

Tomorrow, we've got a group coming from our former church in Kansas City (Central Nazarene) to remodel a room we have and install showers, a washer and dryer and mop sink. It's been amazing to watch God provide literally everything we need and more for this project. We have seen God answer our prayers almost immediately with regard to this project. We'll have 7 people coming down to help with this project and I can't wait to see them. I know many of them well and each one has impacted our lives in a special way. It will be fun to see them. I hope this is just the first of many trips down to OKC from our friends at Central Church in Lenexa. Love you guys!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hope you and Amy have a great time with the Central crew. I hope even more that it makes you both miss Jeremy and I terribly. Tee hee!! Love you guys.

Joe, Amy and Sam Hall said...

We miss you terribly. We do. We really do. We enjoy your emails. The ones about your many job changes. Those are the best. I expect to receive one tomorrow about a new opportunity that you have received. Good times! We love you guys!

Anonymous said...

Well believe it or not I am sticking with the realtor job. I will not be riding along with Mr. Kelly in his training for the Ironman or doing his personal shopping. I am a little disappointed because I think that job would have made for some amazingly funny stories.

Liz said...

Joe, Amy and Sam
Thank you so much for your hospitality and willingness to let us be part of the solution at Penn Ave. I have to tell you that I was really tired from working on Saturday! You think I am getting too old for this?

Who is going to finish the work if you give Patrick some time off? You have some really interesting characters down there, I must have said Semper Fi to at least 3 of them!

God bless!

tammypatrick said...

Hi Guys!
I am so thrilled to hear how amzaing God is working in your lives and the people you touch! I hope you had a wonderful time with the crew from Central. I really wish I was with them!
love and miss you all tons!

tammypatrick said...

P.S. Happy Father's Day!
hope it was wonderful
love you!