May | 2007 | | connecting |

First Day Success!

May 19, 2007 at 6:39 pm | Posted in Events | Leave a comment

Success is the word to describe our first garage sale day in Antipolo. The activity is initiated by my wife, Maela, as part of the schemes to raise funds for the Rebooked project.

A few neighbors were already standing outside the gate when we opened this morning at 9AM. Since the opening, people would enter the garage by bunches of 5 and 6. Looks like people caught on our hand printed ads 🙂

It’s a very tiring activity but the reward is all worth the sweat. Overall we sold around 7K worth of clothes, accessories, bags, CDs and cassette tapes (yes, meron pa kami nun! 🙂 ), including those from your donations. Of the total sales, our(maela and mine, including your donations) sold items totaled 2.8K. 50% of the sales from our personal items plus all the sales from your donations is 1.7K Pesos! Yey!!

Thanks all for your prayers and donations. One more day of selling tomorrow. 🙂

[05222007Update: Overall we were able to raise 2.8K for the Rebooked project. The second day sales were not as high as the first day but a success nonetheless. Thanks all for prayers!

from buechner

May 16, 2007 at 5:20 pm | Posted in Reflections | Leave a comment

this afternoon, while reading a book for a review article that i’m writing, i came across this quote from frederick buechner. i’ve read this one before, but it helps to be reminded and once again ponder..

To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness — especially in the wilderness — you shall love him.

wow.

-aleks

p.s. haiburdey, meni cheloy — the “sunshine after the rain” 🙂