Support raising update

Wow, folks!  In just one month of support raising, we've got just over half of our goal.  That's great news, since most of the items in the budget are fairly non-negotiable - you have to pay the full ticket price for the international trip, visa costs are pretty set, and the nurses in the health center don't let you bargain the price of your shots.  When we first saw the estimated budget of over $20,000 we were honestly a little concerned about being able to raise it in such a short amount of time.

Now, we have less than $10,000 to raise.  But $10,000 is still a big number, and $8000 of what we've already raised came from a connected pair of gifts.  That means most of the donations we got added up to $2975.  And that means we've got a lot of work left to do!  We have $9740 left to raise, and probably can't just count on all that money coming in from the initial 200ish letters we sent out.

We appreciate your prayers for the support raising process!  And if you have any creative fundraising ideas, please give us a holler.

Meanwhile, it's spring break for Ginny!  We've got one fundraising idea up our sleeves that she'll be working on getting set up this week, so stay tuned for an announcement about that.

Welcome!

Hey, friends!  With our upcoming trip to Sudan, we thought we'd set up a blog to keep you all up to date.  On here, we hope to keep you up to date with the process leading up to our departure, including mini-adventures we may have before departing, and then when we arrive, give you a picture of what life is like in Sudan.  The blog will evolve a bit once we return to the US, but we plan to keep it up for all of our future adventures.

Feel free to drop us a note, contribute to the conversation via comments, or just read to keep up.