Operation Giggle 2015

For the last 4.5 years this blog has sat dormant. I just couldn't bring myself to delete it. And now I know why!

Operation Giggle is BACK!!!

I'm excited to announce that we will renew our efforts to bring the joy of Christmas to orphaned children.

In the fall of 2009, fresh off a trip with my best friend to pick up her daughter from a small province in China, I answered the Lord's call to serve orphans from my home in Tennessee.

For two years we served two orphanages (one in China and one in Ethiopia). Due to health concerns and a busy season of life we discontinued the program in Spring of 2011. I have thought about getting things started back up several times. I just didn't know where to start. Both contacts at the orphanages we served before had moved back to the states and I wasn't sure how to get the ball rolling again.

I'm excited to say that we will be partnering with EmmaLee Joy and The Gem Foundation to bring Christmas to their 26 gems and the 28 members of their staff.

If you know EmmaLee you will understand why I am so excited to make this an unbelievable Christmas for her and her gems.

I wil be posting pictures of each child and staff member as well as their names, and any helpful information like their favorite color, interests, etc.

We will need a sponsor for each child and staff member as well as donors to help with the cost of shipping. I would also like to have donors supply all of the needed items for an awesome Christmas Party.

Look for more info in the coming weeks.

In the meantime check out EmmaLee's website and blog at:

http://www.thegemfoundation.com/about.php

http://emonamission.blogspot.com


Because of Him,

Sherri

James 1:27

Awesome chance to help bring a child home!!!!

Hi guys I just wanted to tell you about an awesome fundraiser being done by Matt and Mandi over at The Journey Continues to bring Keliah Faith home. If you don't know Matt and Mandi they are the parents of Drew from New Day. Hop on over and look at what she's got going on I think you will be glad you did. (Also can I just say they came home less than a year ago with two boys and are already on their way to adopting Keliah Faith that kind of stamina, 3 adoptions in less than 2 years, should just be appreciated!!!) So go on over and see Mandi and give what you can to help bring home Keliah Faith!!!

In Christ Alone,

Sherri

Operation Sucsessful!

I opened my email this morning and those are the words I read. Then I saw this picture:

Praise the Lord! The boxes made it! That makes it worth it. I now have to fight with Fe*Ex to make them see I don't owe $2400 but I know that will all be ironed out in the wash. I just had to share the news.

Also if you want another reason to Praise your socks off hop on over to Striving for 31 and read my bloggy friend Amber's post and you will be jumping for joy twice as high!!

Thank you God for meeting every need.

I will tell you this much when He shows out like this it really convicts me that we haven't filed our paperwork yet...anyone know what the health rules are like for back issues?

Well that is another post for another time...right now it is 4:17 am, and I woke up and couldn't sleep so I checked my email and well the rest is history!

God Bless!

In Christ Alone,

Sherri

The Post I have been putting off.

I have put this post off all weekend. I am afraid. I need a fresh dose of God's power here. I have talked to FedEx time and again and I am having major problems getting ANYWHERE with them. At this point they have sent me a bill for $2400 after we have already paid over $1000 for shipping. I am at the point where I am just a hair behind angry and I need this to all get worked out! I am trying one more avenue tomorrow. I am going to the place I shipped from and I am taking the bill, my reciepts and I am going to camp out until someone helps me. Please pray that we can get these gifts pushed through. I can tell you one thing next year these gifts will be shipped 2 months before Christmas. I can't deal with the stress of the kids not having them already. PLEASE PRAY that this works out! They are asking for money we do not have to be paid for the gifts to be released. At the end of my rope here...God is good ALL THE TIME and I know I am just waiting to see that goodness here!

In Christ Alone,

Sherri

CALLING ALL PRAYER WARRIORS!

Our packages have been held up in customs. They are asking for documentation that has already been sent. I resent it today. They are threatening to send the items back to us at our expense and we just do not have the funds for this. Please pray that God will grant us favor and that these gifts would be released ASAP!

Sincerely,

Sherri D. Roe

Gifts Update

Hey guys I am working on an update on the gifts. We did hit quite a few snags. First of all the surgery happened so quickly that we had not recv'd all the gifts so we had to wait until a week post surgery to ship. Then they requested some additional paperwork that I am really the only one that could get together and that was another hold up...(for those of you who don't know less than three weeks ago I had a MAJOR back surgery with several screws and rods inserted in my back, this was NOT planned and threw a wrench in EVERYTHING!) But God has provided and hopefully the gifts should be there now. I will update again as soon as possible. God Bless!!

Sherri

Operation Giggle Stateside Info

Hi everyone! I want to let you know about Operation Giggle Stateside. We have 9 families who live in a trailer park near our church. Because of the economy these families will not be having a Christmas if we don't do something. Below is a list of the families and a little information about the children. If you would like to sponsor a family by buying (at least) one warm outfit of clothes and a toy for each child as well as some small gift for the parents, or household item that the adults can share please send an email to operation_giggle@yahoo.com these items will need to be purchased and shipped so that we can deliver them on Christmas Eve. If you would just like to donate money to help in this cause please use our PAY PAL button and make sure you put FOR OPERATION GIGGLE STATESIDE in the notes section. Jesus commissioned us to go into all the world but he directed his disciples to start where they were and expand...this is an opportunity for Operation Giggle to make a difference right here in Cleveland, TN. Thank you all for participating!

If a families information is in red that means they have been sponsored.



#1 Husband and Wife and 2 children


3 year old Boy 4T-5T. He likes wrestling toys or cars

7 month old Girl sizes: 6-9 months. Baby toys





#2 Husband and Wife and 1 child


4 year old Boy 4T-5T. He likes Spiderman and wrestling men.





#3 Husband and Wife and 3 grandchildren

12 year old Girl, Size 12.

11 year old Girl, Size 12.

6 year old Girl, Size 6.





#4 3 Adults and 3 kids

8 year old Girl, Size 10-12. She likes DSI games.

6 year old Boy, Size 7. He likes cars and trucks.

8 year old Girl, Size 12-14. She likes DSI games.





#5 Husband and Wife and 2 kids

11 year old Boy, Size 10. He would like underwear (size 8), gloves, toboggan, and video games.

8 year old Boy, Size 8. He would like gloves, toboggan and video games.





#6 Woman and 3 kids

18 month old Girl, Size 24 months. Hat, mittens and boots (size 7-8).

13 year old Girl, Size 16 slim pants, and medium shirts. Would like school uniform clothes (collared shirts) and would like video games.

16 year old Girl, Jr/Miss Size 11 pants, and XL shirt. Would like hair stuff.




#7 Three adults and 1 child

15 month old (Checking on gender). Size 18 months. Would like boots (size 6)



#8 Husband and wife and 5 children

15 year old boy, Size 32x34 pants, XL shirt. Likes music.

12 year old girl, Size 6 pants and medium shirt (in women’s). Would like a Jacket.

12 year old girl, Size 4 (Jr/Miss) pants and Medium shirt. Would like a jacket.

11 year old girl, Size 00 pants (Jr/Miss) and Small shirt. Would like a jacket.

8 year old girl, Size 8 pants and shirt. Would like a baby alive and doll stuff.



#9 Mom and 2 kids

9 year old boy, size 10. Would like soccer stuff.

4 year old girl, size 4T. Likes Hannah Montana.

We're getting closer on shipping!

Praise the Lord! I checked Pay Pal today and we have had over $300 in donations so far! Thank You!  I am going to try to get the boxes packed a weighed on Saturday so that we can get them shipped out the first of next week, please pray everything goes well so that we can get the gifts to the children as soon as possible. As I said before any money that is left over after postage and customs will be put toward Operation Giggle Stateside...we are trying to get Christmas for 22 children who live in a trailer park near our church. If you are interested in giving money toward OG Stateside please do it via the pay pal link and just put in the notes section that the money is for the local children. Once again, every penny that is not "earmarked" will go to shipping and customs first and any money left over will be allocated for the local children. Thank You all again!

I will be checking into the hospital today for my surgery which will be at 2:30 EST. Please pray for me and my family during that time. God Bless!!!

Sherri

Shipping Update

Hi guys! I wanted to give a little update. We had our wrapping party on Saturday. We had lots of help and I REALLY appreciate it! We have recv'd right around $700 in shipping money. Not all of the sponsors were able to send in $25 for shipping...matter of fact quite a few of them were not able to do so. If everyone had sent $25 that would have been $1375 and we would have had plenty for shipping...However we are now short.

I am not able to cover the difference. Matter of fact I will only be able to check email and the blog myself until Thursday morning. I am going to be having a major (unexpected) back surgery on Thursday and I will be hospitalized for 4-8 days. My dear friend Tara and my family will be taking care of taking getting the packages weighed on Saturday and then we will know what our shipping need is for sure. There is just know way to know this until we get all the gifts. (We are still waiting on 5 that have been shipped but we haven't recv'd). Tara will be guest posting on this website as soon as she knows what our need is and I am going to have to depend on you my faithful followers to let others know about this need. I will be hospitalized and sedated and have no clue what is going on. I trust God to let the right ones know about this need. It's out of my hands. I am going to be out of work for months and even if I was working I don't normally have hundreds of dollars just hanging around :-)! Carrie needs these gifts by the 20th so we need to ship ASAP. I will be checking the blog again over the next few days. You can contribute via Pay Pal. All money will go toward the shipping. When we get enough to cover shipping I will have Tara post that as well. If any extra money is donated it will be used to buy warm clothes for a group of children here in my town that are VERY needy, my church is trying to help them. God knows my heart and he knows my limitations and I have no doubt that he will provide!

In Christ Alone,

Sherri

5 "New" Kiddos!

UPDATED: 9:07AM on 11/30/2010 These 5 are still available. If you would like to make a donation through PayPal to help us buy for them that would be great. You still have time to sponsor one of them as long as the gift is mailed to me by no later than Friday.

Thanks!

Sherri

I just reviewed the New Day site and it looks like there have been 5 kiddos added. So if you wanted to get in on the fun and didn't get to pick a child now is the time. You would need to be able to shop for the child and get the package mailed by the last day of this month.

So here are the fantastic 5!

From  left to right: Tony, Evie, Molly, Melissa, and Nicole

Email me if you want to sponsor one of thes cuties!!!

In Christ Alone,

Sherri

Time to mail those gifts!!!

Hi Guys! Just a reminder all China families need to have their gift to me by the last week of this month. Please make sure to email me if you are going to be unable to do so.

Thanks and God Bless!!!

Sherri

P.S. We will be having a Wrapping Party at my church at 11:30 on December 4th. Everyone local is welcome to come help!!!!!

Shipping Info

For those of you with shipping questions please click the link below. If you are sending a donation you can do it via pay pal or by ck. Please make cks payable to Sarah's Hope or to Sherri Roe. Please put Operation Giggle on the for line. Thanks!


http://operationgiggle.blogspot.com/2010/09/attention-new-day-sponsors.html

I am still ALIVE!

Hi guys I had to have an unexpected surgery. I will post more in a few days. Could use some prayers right about now. God Bless!

Sherri

Attention New Day Sponsors!

We had a request from the Orphanage that we do not include notes and pictures. I know that you would love for your little one to know who loves them but this confuses the children because they associate the pictures as something from their Forever Family. They have enough to process as it is so please do not include a picture of your family in their gift. (Unless you are a matched Mama and Daddy who know for sure you are going to adopt that particular child.) Thanks so much!


We haven't had any takers on the Ethiopian project so I am trying to think of a way to change it up a bit. Any ideas are welcome!!

In Christ Alone,

Sherri

YWAM: The Ethiopia Project 2010

PRAISE THE LORD!! All the New Day Children are Sponsored!!!

Lets get started on Ethiopia!!

I have went around and around with myself trying to decide how to do this project.

Here are the basics. We have 161 people that we would like to help in Ethiopia this year. This consists of:

50 widows

30 babies

8 school-aged children in our orphanages

35 street kids in Gimbie

38 Orphanage staff - nannies, cleaners, cooks, nurses

I would love to give out each persons name and let families buy for each person like we did last year. But that creates several problems:

1. It is very hard to get photos of each person where they live (all spread out over a large area) and post them online. If the children are adoptable we can not post those pictures online due to Ethiopian adoption laws.

2. There are specific needs and sometimes their needs are not items that we would normally buy as a Christmas gift.

3. Shipping. We must ship these gifts to Washington and then they are sent with adopting families in their luggage to Ethiopia. That  means we must be very careful of weight and size of the gifts we send.

So I have thought long and hard about how to be able to meet these needs and do so in the most efficient and most effective way. Joy and Becky at YWAM have been so helpful during all of this and they recommended making bags for each person. These bags would be a way for the street children to carry their goods as well as make packing easier. The bags we are talking about are made like these but will be made of a more durable plastic and will have Operation Giggle and our motto on them:

Becky and Joy gave us a list of things that would be useful in the bags.

We have went back and forth trying to decide what the best way to do the bags is. I thought about trying to find 164 sponsors to each do 1 (or 2) bags and honestly I think that would be alot of work and a lot of waisted shipping money. So what I have decided to do is post a list of what we need for the bags and asking for volunteers to buy the items (or order them off line and ship them to me through a company like O*iental T*ading.)

For example one of my friends found notebooks on sale and bought notebooks for the 48 students who needed them. One family could buy half the small flashlights (we need 88 of these), or maybe you know a company that could donate all of the wash cloths...you get the idea. Everything will be shipped here and I will round up a  "crew" of helpers to assemble the bags and get them ready to mail.

I understand that this takes some of the "fun" out of it because you don't have a face to look at and you don't get to see a wrapped present all ready to go but honestly this ministry isn't about us. It is about those in need and I feel we should help them as efficiently and as effectively as possible and I feel as if this is the way to do it. I hope you feel the same. So without further ado here is our list of needs...can you help?!

I know this maybe a little hard to read but it is the only way I could get it posted. If you want more information about an item or if you would like me to email you the list as an attachment email me and I will be glad to. Also if you can only afford to buy half of one item please email me we will work it out!

Thanks again for all of your help!

In Christ Alone,

Sherri

4 More to go!

Only four more children from New Day Orphanage in China to find sponsor's for...they are Chad, Jayce, Josiah, and Logan. Email operation_giggle@yahoo.com with your name and email address if you want to sponsor one of these sweeties!

Only 5 children left to sponsor from New Day!

Wish List for New Day Foster Home Children 2010

Below is the most up to date wish list for the children at New Day. Anabelle - cute hats and sunglasses, pretty dress

Angela - infant books, snacks

Anton - Toy for 1.5 years old and soft ball

Aurora - (dolls,toy bricks)

Brooke - infant toys, baby food

Caleb - chalks, infant books, toys

Camille - Nice dress and hair stuff (small ones)

Chad - toys with music)

Claire - drawing board, hair bows, school bag

Cooper - balls, cars

Cora  - （toys with music)

David- balls

Donovan -balls

Eliana  - (toys with music)

Elizabeth -  jewelry, necklace, bracelet, clip on earrings (no pierced ones please), watch for telling time so prefer one with hands rather than digital.

Emelia - (dolls, puzzles)

Ethan - vehicle, building blocks, jigsaw

Evangeline - toys with sounds (pref. non battery powered)

Evie - infant toys

Hannah -  Stickers, color/activities books, necklace, bracelet, stuffed dog toy

Henry （balls，toys with music）

Jack - balls, toy cars)

Jadeyn - cloth dolls with sounds, toys with music

Jamison  (cars,books,balls)

Jayce - infant toys

Jenifer （toys with music）

Jenna - Loves toy cars, dr. or nurse kit, stuffed animal

Joel - He wants cars, train

Joshua - picture books

Josiah - infant toys

Judah - balls, nesting cups, books

Judson - (cars ,balls)

Kiah - cloth and toy

Lindsey - (toy bricks,toy with music,balls)

Logan -(balls, toy cars)

Lucy -（dolls，books，toys with music）

Melody -  (dolls , electronic piano  )

Noah - (balls,cars, toys bricks)

Owen -(cars balls)

Philip - (cars,toy planes)

Polly - ( stuffed animals, toy with music)

Raegan - drawing board, school bag

Robert - vehicle

Rosie -  Toy with lights and sound

Samuel - percussion instrument, building blocks

Serena -  Loves jewelry, necklace, bracelet, clip on earrings (no pierced ones please) (sturdier rather than dainty), watch (will be learning to tell time so prefer one with hands rather than a digital, barbie

Shaun (toy bricks ,cars ,balls)

Timothy -  vehicle, vehicle books

Vincent - vehicle

Willa -  She wants nice dress, hair stuff and beautiful doll

William - balls, electronic piano

Zoe - dolls, toys with music or ringing, pencil (crayon),

5 Children Left!

Just wanted to update everyone,  Chad, Ethan, Jayce, Josiah, and Logan, still need sponsor's!

Please get the word out!!

In Christ Alone,

Sherri

Wish Lists

I got an email from Carrie at New Day this morning and she has asked the staff to help us by giving ideas for the gifts that the children might enjoy. Carrie also recommended for us to send toys that don't require batteries, because they can not replace them. This is the first wave of information and she is planning on sending information on the other children as soon as it is available...HAPPY SHOPPING!!

Hannah: Stickers, color/activities books, necklace, bracelet, stuffed dog toy

Jenna: Loves toy cars, dr. or nurse kit, stuffed animal

Serena: Loves jewelry, necklace, bracelet, clip on earrings (no pierced ones please) (sturdier rather than dainty), watch (will be learning to tell time so prefer one with hands rather than a digital, barbie

Elizabeth: jewelry, necklace, bracelet, clip on earrings (no pierced ones please), watch for telling time so prefer one with hands rather than digital.

Timothy: _ vehicle, vehicle books

Vincent: _ vehicle

Zoe: — Pencil ( crayon )，toys which can create music or ringing

Donovan: -balls

David-balls

Angela: ——infant books, snacks

Raegan: ——drawing board, school bag

Joshua——picture books

Ethan:—vehicle, building blocks, jigsaw

Robert: ——vehicle

Jadeyn:——cloth dolls with sounds, toys with music

Claire:——drawing board, hair bows, school bag

Samuel:——percussion instrument, building blocks

Judah:——balls, nesting cups, books

Evangeline:——toys with sounds (pref. non battery powered)

Caleb:——chalks, infant books, toys

Brooke:——infant toys, baby food

Josiah:——rice noodles, infant toys

Jayce:——rice noodles, infant toys

Anabelle:——cute hats and sunglasses, pretty dress

Evie: ——infant toys, baby food

Willa---- She wants nice dress, hair stuff and beautiful doll

Joel ----- He wants cars, train

Camille ---- Nice dress and hair stuff (small ones)

Rosie---- Toy with lights and sound

Anton --- Toy for 1.5 years old and soft ball

Kiah --- cloth and toy