Author: To Haiti We Go

We are starting our second fundraiser soon and we wanted to give you a little PREVIEW of what it is! Along with us spreading the word as much as we can and praying for God to bring in families to be a part of our ministry team and support us financially each month, we of course need to work on building up on our one-time moving costs as well so that we have it ready to go before we move next year! So….this fundraiser is near and dear to my heart because it’s through the company I use to be a Director with and so I know these cards and how awesome they are and how much people love them. A friend of mine who founded Mercy for Mamas, which helps give birthing kits to mamas in Uganda, was able to raise almost $3,000 in two weeks with the fundraiser. So here is a preview of what the cards are like! 

We have used these cards for years now and what we LOVE about them is they are truly high-quality and super fun! We love getting the box out when we need a card and the boys help me pick out our favorites! We love seeing which cards have interactive features! So here are the details…

OUR GOAL: To raise $3,000 towards our moving costs.

WHAT WE WILL NEED TO DO THAT: Sell 232 boxes! Which is easy peasy when you have people helping you collect orders! My friend had around 15 people helping her take orders and that is how they were able to achieve their goal! So we are looking for 17 people near and far that would like to take in person/online orders for 15 boxes.

We will be starting here in the next week or two and it will run for TWO WEEKS! We have a few “helpers” already that are wanting to help collect orders for us, so we need to find at least 10 more! Would you like to be one of them? If not, would you like a box or two yourself? 🙂

BOX DETAILS: There are two different all-occasion boxes, one kids birthday box and one thanks & blanks box! They are so beautiful, unique, high-quality and would easily each cost $4-$6 each at the store but you get 30 of them in each reusable box for $30 flat (no tax or shipping)! So it works out to only $1 a card and you have them to pull out everytime you need one throughout the year instead of having to get out and go to the store each time! WIN WIN! 🙂

COMMENT BELOW or EMAIL me april.starkey@rmibridge.org if you’d like to be a HELPER with getting some orders OR if you would like any boxes yourself when we start it! 🙂

TONIGHT IS A NIGHT I WILL NEVER FORGET! My sweet Isaac asked Jesus to be His Savior! Jim and I did feet washing with the boys tonight and read the story of the last supper and Jesus washing the disciples feet with them. Later that night I tucked them into bed and Isaac said “Mom, you know how I haven’t asked Jesus to be my Savior yet, well I want to” and I said oh yeah, when would you like to sweetie and he said NOW! 🙂 We went in my room and he shared with me how He believed Jesus died for his sins and he wanted him to be his Savior. He prayed a sweet prayer asking Jesus to forgive him of his sins.

This alone is the biggest deal ever right. However, I am rejoicing even more tonight because I have seen the journey he’s had getting here. He is VERY literal and processes things differently than most due to his sensory processing disorder and so for several months now, he’s talked about it A LOT and had so many questions and been confused b/c of being so literal. He thought months ago that because we went to see his sister Annabelle at the grave/cemetery and we always mentioned she is in heaven, he thought heaven was underground, a grave. Since then we have helped him realize that is not the case of course ❤

To see all he has had to go through and struggle with because of SPD and other stuff and yet see his heart open like this tonight, is something so beautiful and something I am so grateful to have been a part of! He shared how he had been praying about this so I know he was taking it seriously because of how much he’s been talking about the past few months and saying he wasn’t ready yet. I went back up a bit later and climbed up in the top of his bunk bed with him to cuddle and I thought he was asleep so I was speaking over him telling him how much I loved him, was proud of him and how he was a child of God now because of him asking Jesus to be his savior and little did I know he was still awake and he turned around and gave me the biggest smile and said “You can sleep up here if you want” and would fall asleep and then wake up a bit and say it again and fall asleep and then wake up again a few moments later and say it again! It was precious! I look forward to celebrating with him tomorrow! God is so good! We’ve sought the Lord so much since Isaac’s birth about this very moment, but especially the past year when he had all the questions and confusion and you could tell his sweet little brain was just trying to process everything. I love him so much and so I am so thankful for tonight ❤

Love,

The Starkeys

This was so powerful of a story I woke up to this morning that I just HAD to share it with you all! Our organization RMI shared this morning about this lady pictured below!

“In a dramatic response to the Gospel, in the presence of her disapproving family, this woman chose Christ as she took off her Voodoo amulet from around her neck (said to be protecting her from a curse that would kill her during the very soon delivery of her baby).” – RMI

THIS! This right here is one of the MANY reasons why Jim and I yearn to be over in Haiti and cannot wait until we have all of our monthly supporters. What an amazing thing God has done in this ladies life through RMI our organization. Voodoo is so prevalent over there and keeps so many of them in bondage. I long to see more people like her set free with the power of Christ!  Please consider being one of our monthly supporters to help us get to Haiti as we are needed there as soon as we can get there! We are 22% raised right now. DONATE HERE!

Love,
Jim & April