Silent Auction and Donations!!

I thought I would take a moment to share one of our other fundraising efforts that will be happening in the near future!

We are going to 'play' a game of 

Bigger or Better Challenge! 

The idea is that local businesses (from Dauphin to Neepawa (and other surrounding towns if they want to play as well) will challenge another business (or 2 or 3... as many as they want actually) to donate a gift that is "Bigger or Better" than what they have donated. There will be a letter from the church explaining our mission intent and another small note that is the challenge to another business. the note will state their name (the challenger), their business name and what their donation is! Businesses that choose to play with us can be given a tax receipt if they wish (that is the actual cost of the donation).
All the gifts will be collected and then auctioned off for our trip with a silent auction.
We aren't 100% sure of the date of the auction but I will keep y'all posted!

This is a "fun for everyone" fundraiser, as it not only helps us to go and build the house in Mazatlan, but it also helps encourage local businesses to be a part of it in a unique way; it is a fun opportunity to  have a friendly rivalry with businesses, trying to out give each other! And it will help bring free advertising to the businesses and hopefully new customers!
We will be making sure that the businesses participating are made known at the silent auction and other avenues as well!

If you are a business (large, small or if you want to participate with a new item donation for the silent auction) and you would like to be a part of our Bigger and Better Challenge, please let me know and I will make sure to get you the necessary paper work!

God is GOOD!

WOW! 

just WOW! 

Jodi, Pastor Brad & Dennis - just getting set up

Our first fundraiser went pretty good - considering the cool day, the short notice and the fact that we kinda sorta knew what we were doing!

We had the local Co-op in Dauphin help us out by letting us set up in front of the grocery store, they gave us a tent to use, a BBQ {with propane}, a $50.00 dollar gift card to help us get started and they ran a tab for us all afternoon as we needed supplies!

We sold burgers, hot dogs, drinks and chips - and we made OVER $500.00!! I think we were all pleasantly surprised about it!

The Envelope Donation House

We also had the "envelope house" up for people to by an envelope! The envelopes are numbered 1-176 ... the numbers are dollar amounts ... and you pick, add amount you are donating, write your name, address and phone number on the outside (you can get a tax donation receipt) and drop it in the donation box! {Easy, peasy, lemon, squeezy!} As the envelopes are removed there is a painting of a house underneath that is revealed! we had a few envelopes as well head into the donation box!

Close to the end of the day 

All in all, I think, our first fundraiser was pretty good!

Thank YOU to the Dauphin Co-op for all your help, advice and contributions to our efforts,  to those from  mission team who took time help on the day and before hand, those who stopped by for lunch, snack, for support or even just to see what we were doing! We truly appreciate you all!

Also, thank you to the people who have given us {the Ginter's} a financial donation towards our trip and who have been added to our prayer team!! We love and appreciate you all!



IF you are wanting to join our prayer team, please keep coming back to see what our prayer requests are, OR you can email, call or text us! You can read more about Homes of Hope and what they are all about and what they are doing by clicking on the link in the top left corner! 

at the end of the day :)

IF you are wanting to support us as a team or as a family you can click on the link for the Go Fund Me page (top left corner) for a tax receipt or you can contact either Dennis, Hannah or I for how to help us reach our personal goal of $4500 to get us to Mazatlan!

a great place to start!

Hi!! If you have found our blog page it is most likely (we hope) it is because you want to partner with us for our family mission trip to Mazatlan, Mexico in December!

Hannah, Dennis, Jodi - 1/2 of the Ginter family 

We are going with others from our church (Grace Baptist Church in Ochre River) and we are going to build a home! We have teamed up with YWAM

(Youth with a Mission) and they are through with Homes of Hope, to help us build a family a home!

The plan is to build the home in three days and then the remainder of the week will be spent spreading the gospel and the love of God in many ways like: handing out bibles, interacting with local kids through soccer, visiting area of need, doing prayer walks, etc.

Wonder how YOU can help?! For starters — PRAY!! Please for Dennis, Hannah and I as we are trying to listen to hear what God wants from us. WE are needing prayer for many other areas: preparing for the trip, being in Mexico, leaving Mexico, things on our farm will be uneventful while we are gone, raising enough money to get the materials (and hopefully furniture as well) for the home, money for the travel to and from Mexico and I am sure there are tonnes of other things to pray for and as they are brought to our mind we will add them to a running Prayers and Praise list!

If you feel lead to do so you can help support our trip financially. There is a Go Fund me page set up for our group or you can send a cheque to our church and a receipt will be mailed to you. (mailing address will be in the side link along with the go fund me link).

If you have any good ideas or want to help in fundraising in a physical way let us know! With that said we have a few fundraiser ideas in the works as of right now and we are praying they go off well! Some plans are a Grey Cup Party at the church – watch the football game on the big screen!  The evening will include the large screen game, taco bar and pop!  We are also preparing for a Big&Better auction where we will ask local businesses (from Neepawa and area and Dauphin and area) to challenge another business to donate a Bigger or Better prize for us to auction off at a local play.  There will also be an ongoing envelope pull where you can pull the envelope of the donation you want to make towards the building of the house! Tomorrow we are going to be having a hotdog sale in Dauphin at the Co-op from 11-1 and 3-5.

The bible verse that is keeping us going and encouraged is “For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. Hebrews 3:4 — so please playfully consider partnering with in whatever manner you feel you are being called to and lets see where God will take us all on this journey!

We are very excited to be going and doing this work! Some of you will already know why we are heading to Mazatlan – but some won’t. Our daughter Hannah was with YWAM MAzatlan last year and experienced such amazing things that when she returned from her schooling and outreach, she strongly felt God calling her back to Mexico to do something more… enter Home of Hope!! so with others who were also excited to follow God’s calling, she and our Associate Pastor began digging into it and setting up what was needed! AND now we begin the task of making it a reality as we follow His nudging and whispers!

Please keep checking in with us to see where we are at in prayer requests, praises and fundraising as we only have about 101 days until we leave for our mission trip!

Thank you for your time and prayers!!

can you tell we're a bit excited!? 

Your family in Christ,

Jodi, Dennis & Hannah