A Message from a Friend

Dear friends and family,

 

A lot of people in the community have been calling us to see if/what they can do to help Haiti. Most of you know our family adopted our son Jeremiah from Haiti a little over a year ago. Aaron and myself have both been to Port au Prince Haiti (Aaron twice) and have seen the devastation/poverty and that was before this terrible earth quake hit. Haitians are a remarkable people who have already had to handle such awful circumstances.

 

Then Team Larson came up with an idea. My friends called me when I was sitting home watching CNN crying for two days straight. They said come over and lets have a bake sale. I can't tell you how nice it felt to actually do something personally!!! Thanks Guadalupe Dwyer and Cristy McFall. I think we made 21 loaves of banana bread and made over 200 dollars just walking around our neighborhood selling the bread. We have only hit two streets so far and the bread is gone!!!

 

Our idea is such:

 

1/23/10

Community Bake Sale

9:00am-3:00pm or until supplies last.

Where: 44 Lucky Lane

Camano Island WA 98282

We live in Thunder Ridge.

What we need: A few Volunteers, BAKED ITEMS packaged and ready to sell. We are not picky... you decide how you want to divide the item up. It could be baked pies, cookies, brownies, etc. Whatever... be creative. If you want to sell them individually or as a whole it is up to you, but please have them packaged and ready to sell.

I will be excepting items on Thursday and Friday; 1/21 and 1/22... just drop them off. I will be here all day!!!

 

This will be donation only... items will not be marked with a dollar amount. All money will go to 3 different charities of your choice if you want to write a check and all cash donations will go to The Everett Clinic (where I work) who has agreed to match money up to 25,000 dollars. Imagine that!!! What an amazing answer to prayer. The three charities are: World Vision, Red Cross, and Camano Chapel (there money goes directly to fund airplanes flying into Haiti to drop off aide). So you can choose how you would like us to forward on your donation.

 

Please Please Please consider how you can help us on this endeavor. Donations, Baked Goods, etc. If you live far away you could always mail us your donation to 44 Lucky Lane, Camano Island WA 98282 and make the check out to one of the three charities of your choice and we will mail your funds to the charity.

 

Please forward this email on to anyone you know. If you facebook or twitter please paste and post this message on to your sight. That would be much appreciated.

 

Any questions call me.

 

If everyone makes an effort to help what amazing challenges we can meet together. Thanks so much in advance from our family and friends and especially the people of Haiti.

 

Jennifer Larson

360-387-0489