Time For Some Fundraising!!

Can't you just see yourself in this t-shirt? It's a comfy pre-shrunk 100% cotton with a silk screen design. This design, written by me, designed by a real artist is both eye catching and makes a statement. And best of all, with your $15 purchase of this original, not sold in stores t-shirt, you are helping us bring home our children.

Ok seriously though, enough of the goofy sales pitch. We are selling these t-shirts for $15 each and putting the money straight into our adoption fund.  We purchased a box of 100 shirts and we will profit about $1,000 from that box alone.  After we have sold the entire box, we will take orders for more and purchase them.  The bigger the order, the cheaper they are per shirt.  Once you reach the 100 mark, the price goes down significantly.

Don't those Criglers look great?! I was visiting my family and I had the shirts shipped there.  I sold quite a few at church and even a couple at Family Christian Store to the employees (just by wearing the shirt and having normal conversation!).  God bless them!  Chris sold 15 to his friends "over there" and they aren't even allowed to wear them except for pj's!

You may be wondering what this shirt says by now...

One less child without a mother to hold her
One less child without a father to guide him
One less child without food to eat
One less child without a home to sleep in
One less child without clean water to drink
One less child longing for a family to love her      Gotta give Chris props for this line ;)
One less child without medicine to heal him
One less child to go without the knowledge of a God who loves him

I want you to read that again.  I was laying in bed one night trying to think of what I would want on a t-shirt if we were to sell one and came up with these words. It was around midnight and I began crying.  It's not just something sweet to put on a shirt, it's reality.  When I was shopping for a bumper sticker to put on my car (eventually just created one myself on vista print), I kept seeing "6 million orphans....minus one" or "minus two". 

More on that subject in another blog...I started to write but it was getting too heavy for this post. ;)  SO that is where I got the "One Less" from. 

You may be asking how you can help if you are far away.  Well, do you see that paypal "donate" button to the right?  And you probably got the link to this blog post from either email or facebook right?  If you want to purchase a t-shirt, simply email me your address with the size shirt you want, I have Small through XXL and you can pay with the donate button on the right.  If you do not want to pay through the donate button, you can mail me a check. :)  It's super cheap to put a shirt into a padded envelope and mail it! 
Now for you skinny people, I only have a few Smalls left BUT since the order got a little mixed up and the shirts are 100% pre-shrunk cotton....you can just order a medium and wash it on hot and it should shrink for ya. ;)  If you are concerned about the shirt shrinking now that I said that, I washed mine on cold and dried on low and it was fine.

I know we talk a lot about money on this blog and we do the best we can to get the expenses paid for ourselves but sometimes it just doesn't happen.  We applied to four different organizations for grants or loans (no interest), that's plan A.  Plan B is get a bank loan.  We've just received our first "sorry" letter for a grant.  Once we get that wonderful phone call saying we are matched with a sibling set we have to pay them $15,000.  If it is only one child it will be just over $9,000.  And I mean within days of the phone call.  We have to be prepared. 

I want to thank the beautiful and talented Gwynne Gardner for designing this shirt for us, it far exceeded our expectations!

Thank you for helping us bring our children home. We love and miss you all.