First ever Lahash fundraising banquet!

Plans are underway for our first Lahash fundraising banquet. While the event is not until November 14, the banquet planning team has been meeting for the past several months praying, dreaming, planning, and letting the banquet theme, “Your light will rise”, infiltrate every area of our lives. We rejoice that Susan Tabia will be our speaker for the evening, and that her personal travel plans are coming together well. We wait and work in anticipation of an amazing night filled with the stories of the children, video footage to help us connect with our East African family on a more personal level, rousing African music, and of course, tasty food.

On Saturday August 15^th, eight Lahash volunteers (the “Captains”) met at the Melody Ballroom to network and brainstorm together about ways to invite both old friends and new to participate in the upcoming Banquet. The team immediately united with a passion for raising both awareness and funds for suffering children in Uganda and Southern Sudan. As they brainstormed a list of people and businesses to contact, the excitement for the event steadily rose throughout the team. The continuing role of the Captains is to invite 30+ friends, family members, churches, and businesses to financially sponsor each of the thirty tables. The team is also looking for hosts for each of the tables, who will have the opportunity to invite nine of their friends to join their table for the event. We anticipate that at least 300 guests will join us for the evening!

There are many opportunities to help make this banquet an amazing event. There will be a host/sponsor meeting Wednesday, September 2 at 6pm at Berean Baptist church (4822 N Vancouver Ave) where we’ll be sharing a dinner of pizza and salad and explaining these opportunities in further detail. If you are at all interested in either of these roles, we encourage you to attend! If you cannot attend, but would like information on serving as a sponsor, host, volunteer, or attendee please contact Mandi Stonehouse at mlstonehouse@gmail.com. Also, if you would like to join us in praying for this event, please contact Dana Bertermann at bertermann@hotmail.com.

We hope to see you Wednesday!