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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Lemonade Stand

This summer our church is sending 2 teams to Cambodia.
As a family we have several friends going on these trips and have been blessed to support them both prayerfully and financially. However, both of our boys have had a very personal experience with supporting the second team. Several of the people on this team are close friends so we already felt a strong connection to the trip. However, this trip has gained a special place in the hearts of our boys.
We have been planning for our family vacation to Disney World for some time now. As we planned the boys wanted to run a lemonade stand to raise a little spending money for our trip. Around the same time I learned that our friends, who were going to Cambodia with team 2, were planning a yard sale to raise money for their trips. This offered a perfect opportunity for Noah and Michael to have their lemonade stand.


As we prepared our goodies for the sale we talked about why our friends were having the yard sale. We also talked about the reasons they were traveling to Cambodia, to share Jesus with those who do not know Him. With this new understanding of what the Cambodia trips where all about (they thought the team was just visiting Miss Jen our missionary) the boys had the thought to give some of their profits to the team. After some deliberating they decided that 50% of all their profits should go to Team 2 towards their trip. (This made my heart soar!)


Well, the boys spent 6 hours in the hot sun selling lemonade, chocolate chip cookies, brownies, and bottled water. (of course all the supplies were donations, wink wink) They had a table all set up with a menu, cash register, and cooler full of drinks. They were so cute that several people stopped just to buy from their little stand, and then walked around the yard sale! Fun!

Their grand total in sales for the day was $40 (minus about $5 that was spent at the yard sale). So, as we were cleaning up to go home they proudly gave Miss Kim $20 and said, "This is for your trip!" How wonderful it was to see the excitement they had in supporting our friends and having a part in sharing Jesus with people on the other side of the world.

Both of the boys have felt a closer connection to this trip and while we were at Disney last week we took time to pray for our friends. Even though we have not been able to go on one of these trips (yet) we have been able to use these trips to teach our boys the importance of living and sharing Gods word. The photos and blogs our friends have been posting have made us all feel like we are right there with them.
I am so excited that our boys are beginning to understand the importance of sharing the news of Jesus with others.
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