My birthday plans
Hi guys,
People have recently been asking me about my birthday plans. Tiff kept asking me what I wanted to do, and I kept joking that I wanted to do a beach bonfire. After two weeks of telling me it was too cold for a beach bonfire, she finally caved and said, “OK, it’s your birthday, so we’ll all just do what you want.”
So I started to think, “What do I really want?” It’s wonderful that people love and care and want to celebrate my birthday, but at the same time I realize that I’m very blessed and am not really in need of anything.
This year, what I would really like is for everyone who planned on spending any kind of money on me and me-related activities (gifts, going out to dinner, etc.) to donate what you would have spent to one of my favorite organizations instead.
World Vision is a international humanitarian Christian organization that provides disaster relief as well as partnering with communities in impoverished countries to provide children and families with food, housing, and education. They have a robust child sponsorship program that has helped many people around the world. The youth groups at the churches I serve at have both sponsored children at $35 a month and can testify to the work that they do. I’ve worked with them in the past to set up sponsorship drives in the past and to raise money for hunger awareness. It’s a great organization and I hope that if you decide to donate, you look into sponsoring a child from their website as well.
Click here to do all the business:
http://wishes.causes.com/wishes/189478
Thanks for taking the time to read this, everyone, and if you don’t have the means to donate now, totally understandable. Hope everyone has a wonderful 2011!
Be Blessed,
Ernest
P.S. I hope no one takes offense to being tagged in this note, it doesn’t mean that I think that you SHOULD spend money on me, but that you would be interested in this. Thanks again!
