Please pray over us and our Ethiopian items for next Saturday, August 24th! I managed to procure an indoor table at a large community yard sale in Round Hill, VA, and I’ll be setting up to sell all of the items I brought back from Ethiopia (except one statue which my father-in-law very kindly purchased for me so I wouldn’t have to give it up). 🙂 I’m no good at advertising, but the group running the yard sale is advertising it and said they usually bring in a pretty good crowd. My thinking, however, is that prayer is better even than advertising. Not that we shouldn’t do any advertising at all for things, but since I know that’s not where my gifts lie and since I know others are handling it to some extent, I’ll focus on the prayer part. After all, it’s God who can bring the right people in to purchase things and/or donate to the cause.
I made up a poster that tells people where their money will be going, but I can’t show it here since it has the girls’ pictures on it. I did take pictures of the main things I’ll be selling, though, and I can post those. I’m also planning on having a box of miscellaneous yard sale items that people can paw through and pay whatever they think something’s worth if they want it. Those items were all going to be donations to Good Will or some such place anyway, so anything we get for them is bonus.
Here are the Ethiopian items I’m selling:
hand-woven baskets, trivets, coasters…
hand-woven loose-knit Ethiopian scarves…
hand-woven Ethiopian traditional scarves (which also make nice table runners)…
and one 13″ hand-carved ebony statue…
Please pray with me that God would bring people to the sale who are interested in these items or who will be moved to donate to our adoption. God is a miracle worker, and He can do anything. If He wishes, He could bring in the whole $15,000 in one fell swoop! Not that it’s my expectation, but I certainly don’t want to limit Him!