Creative Ways to Give...#2

Do you like to read? Or do you buy books as gifts for others?  You can make a difference by making your book purchases count. Abunga.com will donate 5% of all revenue from your purchases to you pre-selected FAN (Favored Affiliate Nonprofit) on the Abunga site.  Choose The Restoration House as your FAN and you will be supporting single mothers and their children. The donation comes from the low pricing you receive from Abunga. There is no up-charge, ever! With Abunga you know what you’re getting.

Creative Ways to Give...#1

Many of us are interested in supporting good work but often aren't able to directly give to every cause we value.  Starting with this post I will be sharing some ways that you can creatively give to the causes you believe in including supporting single mother's and their children through the Restoration House. 

Every time you use GoodSearch to search the internet, you can be raising money to for your favorite cause.  The site is powered by Yahoo!, so you'll get the same quality search results that you're used to. Each search generates 1.3 cents which really adds up over time. By using GoodShop to buy things on the internet you can also be supporting your favorite cause because up to 37% of your purchase will be donated back to the cause of your choice, including the work of The Restoration House. Click one of the two graphics above to get started today.  Once there you can download the GoodSearch toolbar for your internet browser and starting giving back with every search.

Happy searching and Happy shopping!

 

Lack of Separation...

Well the holidays have been great; celebrating Christ, seeing family, sharing laughs, the food, and all the rest.  But as I'm sitting here writing this I can't tell whether to be sad or overjoyed that the lines of separation in my life have blurred so much that I can no long compartmentalize my life into family, church, work, worldly, spiritual, etc.  Since my last post on December 21st, I've spent time with Mandy, the kids, Mandy's mom,  sisters, brother-in-law, soon to be brother-in-law, her granny, aunt, uncle, three cousins, father, step-mom, my sister, her new husband from Morocco, my niece, my nephew, my mom, her new boyfriend, my older brother, my younger brother, and my cousin, and all this took place over many different visits within three different cities in two states.  Over this time I've worked on different things for the Restoration House at various times which led me to travel differently than Mandy and the kids both to and from Virginia.  Mandy and I also provided childcare for a two month old for one of our Restoration moms for two nights and three days as she was in the hospital for a gall bladder which included multiple hospital visits and phone calls, while we also started caring for two horses from some friends while they're out of town. (this overlapped my sister's family and then my mother's family staying at our house over New Years). 

Through all of this I've experienced joy and laughter, as well as sadness.  I've made my wife happy at times and disappointed her multiple times.  We all need rest from our rest but I know all of these experiences have been valuable.  I'm so thankful our life is an adventure and it isn't easy, but it's worth it.  Jesus really holds all this together and we would be lost without him.