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Priced to sell! Bargains galore!
While these are the sales pitches for tomorrow’s Yard Sale to benefit our Youth Group, they hardly seem fitting words for a church, or are they?
While you might find a lawn spreader for $5 or a Nordic Trac Eliptical for $100 or a candle for only 25 cents (bargains all), what would you pay for the redemption of your soul?
Jesus paid the ultimate price for your salvation. He suffered betrayal, humiliation, torture and a brutal death to ransom our souls from Satan. You, however, need only to ask forgiveness and believe in Him to be saved.
Now THAT’s a bargain.
Come check out the thousands of bargains we offer at our Yard Sale tomorrow and help send our Youth to the 2012 ELCA National YouthGathering in New Orleans.
COME AND SHOP --- RAIN or SHINE!
TOMORROW - Sat., May 7, 8:00 am until 3:00 pm
St. Andrew Lutheran Church
335 Reynolds Ave., Parsippany, NJ 07054
(973) 887-6713
Click here for directions
Or check out our website: www.elcaAndy.org
This Saturday, May 7 from 8:00 am until 3:00 pm, the Youth of Saint Andrew will be hustling about helping you make a fantastic purchase from our Yard Sale. There are thousands, and I mean literally thousands, of items to choose from. Come and shop.... RAIN or SHINE!!!
The proceeds from this Yard Sale will help to offset the costs of sending these Youth (and their chaperones) to the 2012 ELCA National Youth Gathering in New Orleans next year. The goal is to raise as much of the estimated cost of $1500 for each person as possible. Your purchase at our Yard Sale will help us on the fund-raising journey to make that happen.
Three years ago when our Youth attended this gathering, they took a special banner with them to remind them of the one person missing from their group whose smile is very much missed among them.
In 2006, our congregation lost a member of our Youth to acute myeloid leukemia. She was 16. She was good friends with all the kids from St. Andrew who attended the 2009 Gathering. So in her honor they brought a banner displaying her face and the message that she would be transformed along with them. The kids tied the banner to the Super Dome railing, along with hundreds of other banners from churches around the country. It helped them to remember that she was with them in spirit. Stani would have LOVED sharing the experience of the National Youth Gathering.
Next summer, this next bunch of kids plan to take this banner with them again. Among the group will be Stani’s sister.
So your purchase at this Saturday’s Yard Sale will not only help a bunch of Youth to have the experience of a lifetime, you will help keep a memory alive… the memory of a very special sixteen year old girl whose smile would light up any room and whose personality you could not help but enjoy.
Jesus lived in Stani. Now she lives with him.
Come SHOP!
May 7, from 8:00 am until 3:00 pm
St. Andrew Lutheran Church
335 Reynolds Ave.
Parsippany, NJ 07054
(973) 887-6713
Directions click here
In just a few days, thousands (and I do literally mean thousands) of items of one person’s junk will become another person’s treasure.
Rain or shine.
Yes, it’s a yard sale.
But not just ANY yard sale. This is the every 3 years St. Andrew Youth Group Yard Sale.
On Saturday, May 7 from 8 am until 3 pm, you can peruse thousands of items that are in need of recycling…. From one person’s home to another.
How fitting that so briefly following Easter, new life will be given to items that one person felt were junk. Another person will find that less than shiny bauble and with a little elbow grease make new what once was old.
Less stuff in landfills. Fewer dollars spent from budgets that are already tight. Less $ on the credit card this month.
You kid has outgrown that stroller? Well maybe a new mom-to-be who is struggling to make ends meet in this less than stellar economy would like to take it around the block a few more times.
Personally, I find holding a Yard Sale to usually be more pain than it’s worth. But THIS Yard Sale is an exception.
First of all, I get to clean out my house of some of those items no longer being used by my family.
Second, the proceeds from this sale will benefit the Youth of St. Andrew, which includes my son at this time. In July 2012, several of our Youth Group will travel to New Orleans for the ELCA National Youth Gathering. My daughter went a few years ago. It is one of those life experiences that shapes the hearts and minds of a young person for his/her entire life. She will never forget the experience and the things she learned there.
Third, this activity is a bonding event for our Youth. Working together to begin to earn some dough, they begin to really get to know each other. They begin to feel a common purpose and common goal.
Fourth, this activity brings the faces of our Youth into the fore of the minds of the members of our congregation. Their upcoming trip will be front and center in the activities of the church for the next year.
Fifth, by working this activity, our Youth take responsibility for their own commitment to get themselves and their chaperones to New Orleans with as little financial pain to their parents as possible.
And lastly, the work they do to get there will make the event that much more sweet when they worship together with 35,000 other Lutheran Youth in the Super Dome in New Orleans and when they head out to work together on any one of the hundreds of service projects that these youth will undertake.
So come find a new treasure!
Help send a Youth to New Orleans for the experience of a lifetime!
Whatever your motivation, COME SHOP!
May 7 @ St. Andrew, 8 am - 3 pm
www.elcaAndy.org for directions
