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As you may know, we are always looking for ways to give when we don’t have any spare cash (although we’ve been a little slack lately).
One of our biggest ideas was to find a way that we could put together the $2,600 needed for us to sponsor a new well for a village in Africa through World Vision.
Named Websites for Wells, our fundraiser was that we donated $15 to the fund for every new web hosting plan we sold through NewBlogHosting.com
I am very happy to say that we have now …

Those of you who have read this blog before will probably know that it is about my family’s efforts to raise money for needy people/causes.
We realized earlier this year that there is a lot of need in this world, real need, urgent, life threatening need and yet we live in a society where we are blessed beyond measure and yet many of us spend so much, either by choice or simply because of the high cost of living, we have very little we can give.
We have spent this year trying …

We’ve set ourselves a Challenge this Christmas, one which will alter our lives and hopefully improve the lives of others. Read the article to learn what the Challenge is.

Back in March, our family were racking our brains trying to come up with ways to save/raise money to hopefully enable us to buy a well for a village in Africa.
We came up with the idea of Websites For Wells:
For every new website hosting plan bought from our business (NewBlogHosting.com) before June 30th 2010, we would donate $15 toward the well project.
June 30th came and went and we noticed three startling facts:

The world had not collapsed around us
We had not dissolved into bankruptcy
We had more money in our ‘well’ fund than …

Our next idea for giving when we have nothing to give is simple: bring in more income so we can give some away. Read the post to find out how

Wow. I’m tired. We’re all tired. Tired but happy.

It has been an incredible day. A day of amazing generosity. A day of fun, food and fund raising.

How much did we raise? Read the post to find out!

If you’ve arrived at this site because you came to the Hot Dogs for Haiti fund raiser. WELCOME, and THANK YOU for coming by today. Hopefully we’re going to raise hundreds of dollars for the aid efforts in Haiti and Chile.

Today we had a hot dog tasting session.
We tried four different kinds of hot dogs and the winner was…. the cheapest one.
In the end, it didn’t win on the strength of its taste but rather on the fact that it costs the least so we can maximize the amount we are making to give to charity.
Our church is paying for the supplies so that we can give all of the proceeds to charity but there’s not point in spending more of the church’s money than we need to!
We have a …

We’ve had an incredible roller-coaster ride over the last week or so.
We decided that our house was a little out of the way and started looking for somewhere with more passing traffic to situate the Hot Dogs for Haiti fundraiser.
We found an empty plot of land on a fairly busy street corner and asked the owner if we could use it for the fundraiser and he was only too willing to help. He even told us he’d distribute some fliers for us.
I sent an email to the local newspaper (The …

I’m so proud of my kids right now!
After the success of Change for Chile, Rebekah and Caleb were not ready to give up their fundraising efforts and felt inspired to carry on.
Rebekah came up with the idea of doing a hot dog fundraiser and so, Hot Dogs for Haiti was born.
Our church (Hands and Feet, Hanford) is donating all the supplies and we’re hoping to get into the local paper.
We’ve picked a date of March 20th 2010 on our front lawn. Probably from around 11am-1pm.
We’ll probably drop fliers into some …