Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Candle in the Corner Kick-Off!

Woooo-Hoooo! I hope you can hear me over there, because I am ex-ci-ted! Today starts our two week Candle in the Corner Giveaway event! Welcome!!

I'm so excited about this that I figured out how to do a vlog... actually did it...and am now reminded of why I prefer the written word to the visual one.

I really, really want to give a list of disclaimers before airing the below video, but I am refraining myself.

{ Some acknowledgement, please, for the restraint. }

Before the video though, here's how the giveaway is going to work:


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~~Entering is easy! Just make a donation via the "Chip-In" button on the top right of my blog. You are automatically entered for all the drawings. I will track your entries via the email address provided at the time of your donation.

~~Every $5 donation earns one entry. Every $20 earns 5 entries!

~~All winners will be randomly drawn on November 11 and announced here.

~~Winners must contact me within 7 days and provide a mailing address. This will get passed on to the missionary whose item was won. You can email me at stonefox@pobox.com

~~All monies raised will be evenly split among the participating missionaries to support their work doing church planting, AIDS and orphan care, humanitarian work, Christian education, missionary aviation, and more.

~~Each day a missionary family will be spotlighted and their giveaway item shown along with links to their blog so you can meet them! We will spotlight the first one tomorrow.

~~If you blog, FaceBook, Twitter, email etc about this event, leave me a comment at any time during the event and I will give you an extra entry.

~~Please leave a comment or email me if you have any questions or problems donating.

~~I am not responsible for (the remote possibility of) lost shipments, damaged goods, etc etc, blah blah blah. I think this is a given but just want to make sure that we are clear on my job, which is to host the giveaway. Also, I am not a recipient of any monies raised.

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Today, October 27, is Early Bird Extra Entry Day!! To thank you for your help in kicking this event off, we are giving double entries to anyone who donates today! I know what all the items are and this chance at double entries is one you will regret not taking, take my word for it!!

For those still doubtful (oh ye of little faith), here are the countries the items are coming from:

~Spain

~Portugal

~Indonesia

~Taiwan

~South Africa

~Russia

~Paraguay

~Uganda

~Brazil

~Argentina

~Botswana

So go! Donate today and get ready for an exciting two weeks! Then you can watch my first vlog. Disclaimer free.



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16 comments:

Ana said...

Heidi,

Your lovely post brought tears to my eyes, I was reminded of so many beautiful things that I tend to forget when I'm being tested.

The Missionary life is one of beauty, hard, but fulfilling.

Thank you for hosting this amazing Giveaway, and thank you to the people who are willing to give and to those who cannot but will have us in their prayers.

I feel blessed beyond words. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Blessings and hugs... can't wait for tomorrow.

Ana

Nina in Portugal said...

Here we Go!!

I am SO FIRED UP!!

Your vlog was fantastic...all cut and edited and with the scripture scrolling at the end...you amaze me!

Dani Joy said...

Heidi this is so great! You did it! you did the Vlog! It´s has such an impact.

I can´t wait to send everyone over!

Going to post right now! I am so excited! May the Lord´s blessing be upon this endevor.

God Bless you, Heidi!

Smelling Coffee said...

Heidi~ You did a GREAT job with your video - and your hair looked cute, too! ;-) So good to see you and hear your voice, and the example you made about the light really makes its point!

Praying that the Lord will do a mighty work through you and your blog friends this next 2 weeks. Can't wait to meet the missionaries.

Jennifer

The Herd said...

How awesome!!! I will put this on my blog!!!

Josh and Kelly said...

Hooray! What a great kick-off for this party! Can't wait to meet all these new friends and partner together to bring HIS LIGHT! Thanks for the inspiration on this dreary morning! Linking up to your blog right now!

Holli said...

so excited! just put a link into my facebook status!

Thankfulmom said...

Your vlog was great! I thoroughly enjoyed hearing you speak - thank you.

Lisa

Pilar said...

You did such an amazing job! It is such a great touching video, God can do great things even with the foolish of this world.

May God bless this greatly!

The Orndorff Family in Russia said...

This is such an awesome and creative idea! Me and my family are missionaries to Russia. We know a blogger friend of yours and clicked on a link on her facebook.

God Bless,
The Orndorff Family

Patty Wysong said...

I finally made it back to listen to your video! =] It was so cool to hear your voice! SO cool! And I hafta say--I'm really impressed! You need to do one for Zest! =]

I double dog dare ya!!
=]

I love this Candle idea, Heidi! You know just how important missions is to me...

Love ya, girl!

Tanya (In the Dailies) said...

Love the video. I'm SO EXCITED about this!!! I blogged about it on Monday. Here's a link: http://tanyadennisbooks.com/2009/10/26/you-gotta-click/

rita said...

I just added your giveaway button to my blog http://meemaw-rita.blogspot.com/
Thank you!

Julie said...

From one little tin can to another... that was very cool!

thedomesticfringe said...

Heidi that was an awesome Vlog!!!!

You're a natural born speaker. Great job.

I just put a link for this post on facebook. I'm so glad I can participate in this event. I've been praying for God to provide the money so I can participate and He did.
-FringeGirl

Anonymous said...

Hi!
I was trying to "Chip In" but it keeps telling me that there is an error. Maybe I waited too late?! I don't have to be entered into the drawing, I just wanted to help out. If I can still send you something, please let me know. lindsayreaves04@gmail.com

Thanks so much!
-Lindsay