The below post is from an email sent to us from our Missions Committee Director, Pam. She has been a tremendous motivator and she has been such a blessing to our mission team as well as Community Church of Elkhorn. Just wanted to pass along the great stories she shared regarding our recent Rummage/Bake Sale held at our church a few weeks ago.
[When we started this journey to Honduras I would never have believed that God would give us so many miracles and blessings along the way. Here are just a few that God has given me to share:
Many people think we should be pricing the items that we have in the "sale", however, God takes care of that:
Three young women (teenagers) came to the rummage sale. Each of them pregnant, none married; they were looking for baby items. One of the girls "bought" three brownies, one for each of them. Their funds were very limited, however, as they turned to go one young girl reached into her pocket and brought out a wrinkled $5.00 bill, which was all she had. She handed it to me and told me to put it towards our Honduras mission. WOW! what a God moment.
Another woman selected just one small item and handed me $20.00 and said that she wished her church would do something like this. Kim, you had given me a folder of information about Honduras which I gave to her and she said that she was going to bring this up at the next meeting at her church. Where will God lead her church? Let's pray it's to the mission field. Miracles are everywhere!
As you know, I put an ad in the local paper with the date and times of our rummage sale. I had a phone call from a lady that said she had read in the paper about our unique rummage sale with proceeds going to our Honduras mission team; she wanted to be a part of it by dropping off nick-knacks and other items (she usually gave to Goodwill) for our church rummage sale. (WOW! another God moment) One of ladies from our church selected several small figurines (apparently, collector items) for herself and took them home. Now here is the amazing part of the story. A few days alter, this lady from our church was in the drugstore and she overheard a woman who was trying to purchase a figurine to replace the one she had accidentally broken while cleaning (she is a maid). But the store employee told her that the particular figurine she was looking for had been discontinued. The lady from our church stepped in and said that she thought she might have that exact figurine as she had just "purchased" it at the Community Church of Elkhorn's rummage sale. Upon going home, sure enough, she had just the figurine the cleaning lady needed. She contacted the store and told them she would drop off the figurine. The cleaning lady wanted to pay for it, but "No Way!", the lady from our church was just thrilled to be a part of God's plan. God moment from start to finish! As it turned out, the lady from our church was able to find out the name of the cleaning lady and she could not believe it but she had been one of the many children she had driven on the school bus back and forth to school for many years. What a blessing all the way around!
When people come up to me and ask the prices at our rummage sale, I tell them it is a simple donation to support our mission trip to Honduras. Sooo many of them do not have much, but they literally open their wallets and give it all!!! Blessings and miracles are all around us if we just open our eyes.
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