other help needed:

Would you like to do a bit extra along with praying!? We have learned we are able to take clothing and things to Mexico to share with the people there!










Hannah noticed that when she was in Mazatlan last year that they love soccer! So we want to take some balls (deflated of course) and so we will also need a few pumps to blow them up (and leave them) again once there.
A few other ideas of things we would like to take are clothing, personal hygiene items, shoes - all for men, women and children, school supplies. basically things you would put into an Operation Christmas Child box.
There is not much there in Mazatlan for these items (or else we would take down money to purchase in that area to aid in their economy).

If you are wanting to help in this area let us know! I will make arrangements for pick up!

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!