fundraiser for Feed My Starving Children - Applebees

I was just notified of a fundraiser starting April 18th and then every 2nd Wednesday of the month through 2012.  Feel free to pass the information around to family and friends. All you have to do is bring the flyer (see below) to Applebees in Aurora, IL on the specific dates and 15% of your bill goes to Feed My Starving Children.

The letter below the flyer explains it all. _____________________

My name is Joyce Kalicki.  I am an individual that volunteered through my church, Word of Life, Naperville, to help pack meals for Feed My Starving Children.  As volunteers we were amazed at how many starving children this organization feeds.  The Feed My Starving Children in Illinois packed 77 million meals by using about 345,000 VOLUNTEERS!   The Feed My Starving Children location in Aurora, Illinois only has 8 full time and 12 part time employees.  The ladies of Word of Life Lutheran Church started looking for ways to support this amazing organization that does so much with so little money.  (A package of food that feeds six costs approximately $1.50!)

Applebees  Bar and Grill in Aurora, Illinois offered the program Dining to Donate.   With this program the community has the opportunity to support Feed My Starving Children by simply going out to eat!  This is something most of us do every week!  Applebees has partnered with us and is going to donate 15% of all food sales in which the dining party submits to the server the attached flyer (above).  The key is that it must be submitted to the Aurora Applebees on 59 on Wednesday April 18th, 2012 from 11am to 11pm.

Please consider joining this community effort and helping feed starving children in the United States and 69 other countries?  All you need do is advertise this fundraiser by speaking of it and passing on the attached official flyer from Applebees.  We as a community can EAT OUT and help starving children all over the world!  This means that if someone eats a $10.00 meal at Applebees of Aurora, Illinois on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 and submits the attached official Applebees flyer to the server Feed My Starving Children will receive $1.50.  This will allow FMSC to pack SIX meals for starving children.

Please consider partnering with us to raise money for Feed My Starving Children to help empower them to feed children all over the world.

If you have any questions please contact me.  I would love to hear from you.

Sincerely,
Joyce Kalicki
thekalickis@yahoo.com
(586)907-5125

$1097 is the TOTAL for my 2011 donations to FMSC! w/Tyndales money that equals 8,214 meals!

So $1097 x 3.917 ($1 = 3.917 meals) = 4,296 meals + $1000 (because Tyndale doubles the donation, up to $1000), so that's $2097 x 3.917 = 8,214 meals!

very satisfying. However, I have felt weird this whole year about showing everyone how much I'm donating. It feels like I'm tooting my own horn and makes me uncomfortable. So I'm glad it's over, but I'm also glad I did it, and saw how much of a difference not eating out makes. And giving up haircuts, some clothing, some presents, etc. That money can go to something much more useful. And I want to think of other things I don't need, since we Americans can spend our money so frivolously.

I don't have any big speech to end this, this is it. It's been a pretty simple blog the whole year (much to my sisters amusement) and I'll finish it simply.

Hope this helps someone else out there to give more to others and less to themselves.

New Living Translation (NLT) Matthew 6:19-21 ¹⁹ “Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal. ²⁰ Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. ²¹ Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.

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$1 donated to FeedMyStarvingChildren=4 meals (3.917 to be exact) To get the total number of meals that will go to Feed My Starving Children take the dollar amount times 3.917. $100 equals 391 meals.

finished the OY Chronological Bible

I finished reading the Bible at 11:30pm last night, right before the end of the year. I only had 4 pages left but almost forgot because Jason and I were playing out new game "Settlers of Catan" until 11pm.

I'm sad to say, but this is the first time I've stayed up tell midnight on New Years in a few years. My excuse, I suppose, is I had a 9 month old and then 1 year 9 month old. So now, with an almost 3 year old, I could handle it.

$5 for Wed

No Jimmy Johns Wednesday, but I did meet Jason at Starbucks.

only 2 days to go!

almost time to add it all up, and double it (thanks to Tyndale!)

$100

As part of my Christmas present from my in-laws I got $40 to give to Feed My Starving Children

and Jason's giving $60, in lieu of the gift exchange we usually do with my family.

then double that thanks to Tyndale, and you've got $200

$7

no Jimmy Johns, no Starbucks!

$60 for Christmas Gift

My family is donating the $60 we usually spend on an exchange gift this year to a charity of our choice. So, of course, I chose Feed My Starving Children

and I'm almost done with the One Year Chronological Bible - NLT. It's been good, I'm so glad I took on reading the Bible in a year. Next year I'm getting the NLT Parallel Study Bible. I don't think I'll be reading that in a year, but I will be reading many interesting notes.

$21

This is for all week.

I've been at 3 different Christmas lunches over the last 2 weeks, so that helped.

I'm so close to being done with the "Year of Living with less" so you'd think I'd be thinking about it, but I've been so busy I haven't remembered to post.

with that, I've gotta go, time to give Jonas his bath. :)

$10

this if for wednesday and thursday

$5

no jimmy johns.

We had our Production Group Christmas Party during lunch today. The design Christmas party is next Monday, then the Company party is after that. I love this time of year :)

$7

no Starbucks and no Jimmy Johns. I worked through lunch and then picked up Jonas early. We did go to Panera for an early dinner. But I'm still counting the no Jimmy Johns

$7

no Jimmy Johns and no Starbucks!

$5

no jimmy johns. And I juiced tonight :)

I got the following C.S. Lewis quiote off of Barry's post (thanks Barry)

The essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea-bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.- C.S. Lewis

$7 and last night was the last night of juicing

No Jimmy Johns and no starbucks. Mainly because I went home sick at 11am.

I'll try to continue the juicing (at least every few days hopefully). And am glad I made it a week. well, sort of, one night i didn't eat after 5, but didn't juice either.

and now I'm sick. So I should have been eating better when I wasn't juicing. Might have happened anyway though. Last week with Jonas's first day of daycare and Jason starting a new job was kind of stressful.

$2

No Starbucks, but I did get Jimmy Johns.

We've got to go grocery shopping. And this being the first week of my husband's new job, and daycare, it's been a little crazy.

oh, and last night I didn't eat after 5pm, due to the juice fast. HOWEVER, I also did not make any juice. So, on one hand I didn't completely fail, but on the other hand, I ate unhealthy food up until 5pm, so I did fail. But I'm continuing on.

$5 - and day 2 dinner juice fast

no jimmy johns.

Had carrot, kale juice for dinner. It's 9:35pm now and I'm hungry. I woke up a few times last night and drank water because I was hungry then too. Just goes to show how I rarely go very long without food. I usually don't make it between meals without at least one snack.

$7

third day in a row with no Starbucks (it was a close call though).
 And no Jimmy Johns.

Are you checking my post?

On average it looks like I'm getting 0 to 2 people checking my post a day. I'm not sure if that's including me (ha), but I did click the "don't track your own pageviews" button a long time ago, so if that worked, people are really checking. And I'm feeling somewhat held accountable. But I'm really held accountable by God.

I just checked the stats and  Pageviews by Countries and look below, there are people from other countries checking! pretty exciting. If you're continuously checking, whether from the US or India, I'd love to hear comments on why. And I'd love to hear if you're doing anything to make a difference, big or small.

Thanks!
Jen

United States 1,085 Germany 21 Russia 17 India 9 Singapore 9 United Kingdom 6 Canada 3 Latvia 3 Australia 2 Switzerland 2

$14

2 days of no jimmy johns and no starbucks. not bad :)

$828.50 TOTAL = 3245 meals

alright, it's really adding up now. Boy, I hope my work ends up doing a match. We should find out this month. I can't believe it's been a year almost. It's flown by!

$1 donated to FeedMyStarvingChildren=4 meals (3.917 to be exact) To get the total number of meals that will go to Feed My Starving Children take the dollar amount times 3.917. $100 equals 391 meals.