A couple of weeks ago, I realized we needed to set a date for our annual Breast Cancer Awareness promotion that focuses on raising funds for the Kim Wilson Missions Scholarship Fund. Kim was an NOBTS grad who was diagnosed with breast cancer while serving with the IMB in Asia. She died in 2008. Vanee Daure, a friend and co-worker of Kim's (and me!), started the fund a while back and we're slowly trying to do our part to bring awareness to the disease and build up the 'pot'!
The date we set is tomorrow (October 8) which meant that today was filled with pulling together all of the possibilities and probabilities into realities. We enlisted Holly to design our "In Memory Of" and "In Honor Of" graffiti sheets. Last year we came up with the idea to ask people to share with us names of the women they know who have dealt with the disease. With the names came stories and with the stories came the reminder that this disease is far-reaching into many families and throughout countless friend circles.
We also painted pumpkins. It's become a tradition to include a pink pumpkin (this year, two!) for a suggested donation of $15-$20. Today I got help from one of my assistants Heather and her friend Davi. Davi is from Taiwan and had never done anything like this. It was SO fun to watch her creativity come alive. We also painted wooden anchors (think "HOPE"!) to hang on the wire tree.
Vanee worked hard this morning counting coffee beans. Lots and lots and lots of coffee beans. Courtney thought it would be fun to have a 'guessing' jar so we chose coffee beans, filled the jar, and now will hope folks are willing to give a donation to make a guess. Winner gets a $10 Cafe New Orleans gift certificate. Fun times.
All of this made for a hectic, busy, productive sort-of day. And a very tired, still-have-to-pack-for-Atlanta-trip woman. So I'm off to bed, thankful for partners in pink-collar crimes!
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