God & Garage Sales...

Does God visit garage sales????? I have no idea if He does or not. I know if I owned the entire universe that I would probably not waste my time at a garage sale, but last weekend was a different story.

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It all started when Susan Fidler had this idea..... If the Cronans are going to sell all their stuff to raise some support, then why not have a church wide yard sale? It was a brilliant idea. Chris Carpenter and a host of friends from the ROCC showed up to help with raising our support. They worked tirelessly all night the night before the sale and all day on the day of the sale.

We sat down and figured out just how much it would take to get us to Nepal. Then we trimmed off all the fat and looked at how much we needed. Then we eliminated even more and came up with the final figure....... We needed about $6800 to finalize our plans to go. If we could just come up with that then I think we will have enough to pay for plane tickets, shipping, initial set up, etc..

On Friday night before the sale several of us stayed up sharing with each other. We were all exhausted but the Spirit of God was there so we just let him have our time. We concluded with a final prayer, that God would allow us to raise the last of our outgoing expenses. It actually seems quite impossible to raise that much from a garage sale. I mean old vaccums, broken toasters, and retro clothes can only bring in so much money, but why not give it a shot. This is God's thing anyways and He can raise the support any way that He wants to.

It was a long day but God held off the rain and provided a small army of volunteers to help with the sale. I will never be able to show everyone how much I appreciate their help. At the end of the day the final figure came in.........We raised $6900! I could'nt believe it. God really is in the details. God may not visit every garage sale, but He decided to visit this one.

Posted by Jon at August 19, 2003 10:28 PM