This was the 7th garage sale that I have been involved in at our church. When I was first informed about the garage sale I was a bit skeptical and curious about how this would work. The basic concept is that we ask members in the church, and people in the community, to donate their gently used items to our garage sale. We get a place to store these items for about four weeks prior to the sale. The week of the sale is just all garage sale; picking up large donations, setting up the sale, selling items and then cleaning up our church.
This year was a tough year for me in the garage sale. To be honest; garage sales are not my "thing" but I know the value of this sale and how much we can make for camp (last year we made just around $12,000). See every penny that we raise from the garage sale helps to send our students to summer camp and that is important for our ministry. This year I was discouraged for two reasons:
1) I felt like we had less "high ticket items"
2) I knew we were going to make less than the previous year
When it was all said and done we have made over $7500 to help sends students to camp so far! I may have times that I get discouraged but I need to remember that God knows all our needs. I have to trust, and pray, that God will bring in all the money for students to go to camp. I also get encouraged because I was able to spend hours with students selling stuff, picking up items and cleaning up the church. I had extra time to spend with our team and hang out with new people from our church. I also get to see this amazing family in our church (Kevin and Nancy Rock) do what they love and help lead this sale!
I may have had a discouragement about some of the sale but overall I am thankful for the amount of money we raised and how much time I was able to spend with students.
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