Cambodia Yard Sale!

Hello, friends!

In case you hadn't heard, Megan and I are going to Cambodia this summer.  We have the pleasure of leading a team of 7 students to spend one month in Phnom Penh helping start a campus movement in the country.  We are really excited about the team and the trip.

Of course, one does not just get up and walk to Cambodia.  It takes time to prepare, the effort of prayer, and not a small sum of money that must be raised.  Add to it that we got a bit of a late jump on finding flights and you have a team that needs to raise a fair chunk of change before we ship off on July 5.

Megan had a great idea to help in the process.  Why don't we have a yard sale/bake sale to help us raise some of the necessary funds.  We have a house full of things we don't need anymore and we have tons of friends who have stuff they don't need anymore either.  Surely we'd be able to raise at least a little bit of money for the cause, yes?

Well, friends, the yard sale happened this past weekend and I have no problem saying that it was a complete success!  Not only did we raise over $300, but we also got rid of a lot of unnecessary junk from our house!  Here are a few observations:

- Yard Sales are a great way to meet the neighbors! I can;t even count the number of times we said hello to someone and found out that they lived in the neighborhood.  Megan and I have been trying to figure out ways to meet more of our neighbors and apparently this was it!

- Generosity is alive and well.  I saw this in 2 ways over the weekend.  First, there were folk who donated stuff to the sale, which was a huge blessing.  Some of the stuff was really nice too.  It's so great to have a community that is willing to help when it can.  Another way was that there were more than a few people who came by and didn't buy anything but they donated because they wanted to support our trip.  Megan made sure they made off with at least a few homebaked cookies.  =0).

- Yard Sale tensions area  real thing as a seller.  Apparently everything, and I mean EVERYTHING at a yard sale is negotiable.  I definitely had to put on my "Let's make a deal" hat.  The tension that I found was that on the one hand, I wanted to make sure that we actually made some money to support the trip.  On the other hand, The prospect of having a bunch of left over stuff that went unsold because the price was too high wasn't very appealing either.  I made more than a few deals and hopefully it didn't cost us too much.

Friends, please continue to pray for us as we continue to raise funds for the trip.  The students have been doing a great job of raising money but there is still much work to be done.  If you'd like to hear more about the trip or contribute in any way, you can email me at adamjohnleong@gmail.com.

Have an excellent day!

~Adam