One Week Away!

With less than a week to go I wanted to update the site again. I have a few quick things to go over.

#1
I still have 17 gifts that I haven't gotten. Out of those 6 are local families and I know they will be bringing theirs to the wrapping party. So I really only have 11 more gifts that I am waiting on. If you haven't mailed your gift please email me and let me know the status!

#2
The wrapping/shipping party will be next Sunday at 3 p.m. at Fairview Worship Center in Cleveland TN. If you are local please come out and help us!

#3
I need a few extras! If you never got to sign up for a child but would like to help I have a few "light" presents and I would love for some extras to make everything even. Please email me at sdrgodsgirl@yahoo.com if you would like to help.

#4
The shipping fund has $1007.75 (18.97 is Milk Money) at this moment. We need to raise $511.22 in the next week. If you have an extra $10 laying around please go on pay pal and send it our way. It will be put to good use! If 25 families send an extra $20 in it would take care of the rest of the shipping. My family will be family number 1 so I just need 24 more families!!!

#5
If you are local I need help over the next week! I need someone to pick up pallets, I need someone to help haul boxes to the church, I need wrapping paper, tape, bows, ect. Please email me if you can help!

LAST BUT NOT LEAST
Don't forget the raffle! We will be drawing next Sunday for both dresses and the wall art!!! Please be sure to enter.

3 ways to enter

1. Donate $2.00 and put for Dress #1 in the notes section
2. Post about Operation Giggle on your blog (and then post a comment on our blog telling me you did so!)
3. Send out a mass email about Operation Giggle and copy me on it (sdrgodsgirl@yahoo.com).

God Bless You All!!!

Sherri

Ok...so I can't add!

Just wanted to update you on the New Day shipping...if you know me outside of the blogging world you know that I am BAD with math. It is a running joke around here...well I just double checked my Excel formulas and it turns out I had added two "cells" in two times each so our actual total is $952.75 and $18.97 of that is Milk Money so we have $933.78 toward shipping. We still need to raise $566.22. If you haven't sent your gift in yet please include a donation to help ship it if at all possible. If you did not sponsor a child but still want to help you may do so by clicking the donate now button on the right side of this blog.

Just in case you haven't looked at the comment posted by a reader (Meliske) below I wanted to repost it here...

Oh my goodness! What a small world this is! This weekend some very close family friends traveled to Ethiopia from Washington with 4 suitcases- 1 suitcase of clothes and 3 suitcases of gifts donated for the children in the orphanage! Brian and Alex, daddy and big brother (9 yrs old) carried the gifts you sent. They were not charged any extra fee, due to what was inside the suitcases, and they arrived in perfect condition. Thank you for your prayers, as they protected some people who are very dear to my heart. Alex and Brian have met their newest addition, a beautiful 21 month old girl, and they will all be returning to Washington this Saturday, where mommy and another big brother and a big sister are waiting.


Praise God for his provision and protection over this family. God is SO good! Pray for this family as they continue their journey home!

I hope that you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!

In Christ Alone,

Sherri

NEW DAY WRAPPING SHIPPING PARTY UPDATE

If you would like to help get everything ready to ship for the New Day Children please let me know. We will be meeting on Sunday December 6th at 3 p.m.

I will post more information as it becomes available!

Thanks,

Sherri

New Day Shipping Update

I am very glad to tell you that after reviewing all of the donations that have poured in over the last week we now have $916.56 toward shipping and $ 18.97 toward Milk Money. Thank you all so much. If you haven't sent your package yet please try to send some shipping money to help get your package to China. We still need over $500 for shipping and we would like to raise more for Milk Money! Praise the Lord for people to partner with that are so giving!

God Bless You All!

Sherri

Need Your Info!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!


Things are going so wonderful!

If you have made any sort of donation or sent a gift or donated time or anything at all please send your name and address along with a short discription of what you did to my email address sdrgodsgirl@yahoo.com ... something like this:

Sherri D. Roe
452 Main Street
Somewheresville, TN 78936

I bought for Joe Doe and donated money to shipping.

Thank you all so much!

God Bless!


Sherri

The packages arrived!!!

I spoke to the YWAM group in Washington tonight and they got the packages! It should be on its way to Ethiopia later tonight. Please pray for those carrying the gifts and for an easy trip through customs. Please pray that our gifts will arrive unharmed and completely untouched. PRAISE GOD THAT WE MADE IT THIS FAR! Because of God's blessing and your obedience we have touched the lives of over 80 children, women and several young men. Thank you God for providing everything we needed!

A Psalms 30:2 Kind of Day

Psalms 30:2 says O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me.

That was the kind of day I had yesterday. I was in so much pain Saturday. Pain that was so bad I was in tears. I hate that kind of pain.

I got into a chair at home on Saturday night and sat their on the heating pad hurting so much. Finally I got into bed with the help of my family and I spent a horrible night tossing and turning. So tired but awaken time and again by pain. Sometime in the morning I got up to use the bathroom it took me forever just to walk the short distance to my bathroom and do my business and get back in bed. I just couldn't even think about spending the whole day like that. I wanted to worship the Lord and enjoy myself I had the Operation Giggle meeting and I just wanted to be WHOLE. I was laying in my bed with my wonderful husband and my son. My dauther was asleep (not for long). I told Mitch that I was going to have my dad (who is also our Bishop) to lay hands on me and pray for me when we got to church. I started just saying alound how I knew that God could save me. How I knew that Jesus said that FAITH could make us whole. I believe that. I believe that God has good plans for me and that He loves me and doesn't want me to live in pain. Well I was laying there and I thought wow I'm not hurting so I moved a little...no pain...I sat up (took me 3 minutes to set up when I went to the bathroom) NO PAIN, I stood up...NO PAIN, I walked NO PAIN, I ran...NO PAIN...I shouted (and woke my sleeping daughter up). NO PAIN. God is so good. I asked and he answered. Thank you heavenly father!!