Kidney for Kendrick

Over the last 2 to 3 weeks, Henry and I have been working with the community group that we joined at Crossbridge Church.  This is, in fact, the same church that Carissa and Nick attend, for those that know them :)  We are currently seeing what God has for us, and we are considering two churches at this time.  Nonetheless, we are planning to be with this community group for the duration of the current bible study that the group is doing.  The church is really working towards trying to be better servants, thus community groups become those that facilitate that.  A member of the group found a great opportunity, and we put together a garage sale/bake sale/raffle for this young man, Kendrick, who is is in need of a kidney due to kidney failure.  Yes, of course I made something for the bake sale :)  I made these.
Last week, Henry and I pulled out all of those boxes we had marked GARAGE SALE over the past couple of moves that we had made.  I’d been waiting for a garage sale to happen so that I could get rid of this stuff, but both of us honestly thought we’d be at the community garage sale here in Westbury sitting at a table trying to get rid of it all.  I’m happy to say that we didn’t have to do that and were able to donate so much of our stuff to a much better cause than ourselves.

We were up and ready to go at 5:50am and unloading Stella by 7:15am at the garage sale location.  There were lots and lots of visitors, thank the Lord!  Granted, this picture is mostly just of us in the community group :) Just a little snapshot of Eden, Carissa, Trudy, Kimberly and me while I was breaking from directing traffic :),
As you can tell, Trudy was ready to collect the money! :)  Yes, I did say above that I was directing traffic.  Henry and I stood out in the street, (one on one side and one on the other) directing cars to the proper location since it was slightly confusing to find.  For somewhere between 2-3 hours total, I was like a cop directing traffic.  My arm defintely hurt the next morning, Haha!  It was fun though :)
Oh, and just for kicks, because she’s just so adorable, check out sweet Eden :)
Anyway, Henry and I were so thankful to come home and know that we had cleared out so much stuff from our house.  The most important thing though was that, as a group, were were able to raise so much money to help not only Kendrick’s family, but the family who is donating a kidney to Kendrick as well.  By the way, his donor happens to be his boss.