Sometimes I Write

I’ve been thinking about this challenge for the past few days, but was finally inspired by the baking and canning frenzy at my house today.

We are a missionary family. We run our ministry and our household on the generosity of others. Our financial supporters are amazing! Some of them have been with us since the beginning, sending their checks faithfully for the past 8 years. We’ve seen several go because of their own financial situations, completing the original commitment they made to support us for a certain time frame, and a few other reasons-some of which I’m too kind to mention here. We’ve also been blessed by new people wanting to partner with us. Overall, we’ve been very blessed, but to say the past 2 years have been a struggle is a gross understatement.

Benny and I are both terrible fundraisers. We don’t want to emotionally manipulate people to give. You’ll never see starving babies or abused puppies on our website, but we also need to figure out how to get the message out that we need help. What Benny does is a full-time job, but we’re living on part-time pay. I do my part by being a super couponer, shopping at a food bank, and a billion other little ways I am frugal for my family.

I know this is a DRAWING challenge, I just wanted to explain my drawing to you.

I chose green for what we have coming in now. I like green.

I chose gray for the one-time gifts that occasionally come in and allow us to catch up. Gray because it’s uncertain – we can’t plan for it.

I chose pink because it’s my favorite color, and I want pink. I want the rest of what we need.

I chose to draw a pie, because that’s what my house smells like right now. 🙂

Go check out my pie-loving friends who are taking this challenge with me:

Expatriatism,  Free To Be Too Much, and GirlyGeeky