Getting Caught Up: Fun Raisers

This past Sunday we had another training time but before I get into what happened this Sunday we are going to get you caught up in all that we have already done together as a Mexico Missions Team. 

Feb 14th a day of loooooooove! Valentines Day. We as a Mexico Team put on a Valentines Date Night Fundraiser to help out all those husbands who found themselves in the dog house this past Valentines day, because they forgot to appreciate and love their ladies. We served a meal to the visiting couples, decorated the church basement, set the mood with soft music and made sure everyone was having a lovely evening. We raised $1162 from this night. We were very excited as this was our first event as a team and our first fundraiser. Here are some pictures from the night.

This is the Team. Left to right we have Christine, Shannon, Jacob, Kendra, Blaine, Taya, Noah, Jocelyne, Annelise, John and the two people in the front are Lisa and I (Spencer)

Here is a little view of the ambiance.

The Team waiting in between courses.

Lisa is hard at work. shhhhh! she doesn't know I'm here.

It was a great event. We had a great time working together as a team and serving the couples who where out for a nice meal and a lovely date.

Our next big fundraisers were our Soup and Bun potlucks. We held on at Mcdougal Chapel and one out at Bergen Church. Both were again a great way serve the people within our church and let them decide what our fundraiser was worth to them. Both were by donation only. At the Mcdougal Chapel Soup and Bun we raised $678.05 and at the Bergen Soup and Bun we raised $2010. We have been so grateful for peoples generosity in helping us reach our goal of $16800 to get our team down to Hermosillo to serve. Unfortunately we were so busy serving we forgot to snap pictures of the tasty soups and all the people enjoying them. We had one other fundraiser so far and that was a bottle drive.

Our bottle drive raised $1977.77. We are so blessed to have God providing these funds through generous supporters like you. We are so grateful for these opportunities for us to get used to working as a team, to serve the people of our community and to see how God provides for the plans he lays.

We will be back shortly with another post letting you know what has been happening at our Sunday training events so far.