3 full days left to SIGN UP!! + A Give Away!

36 Families so far....and counting. 

Adoption Sunday, November 7th, at 11:59 pm will be the last opportunity to sign up as an adoptive family to receive credit for shirts that are sold through OH.  

In case you missed our announcement....we are giving away our t shirt sale profit through the month of November to every adoptive family who sends us their agency info and contact info, in order to confirm that you are signed with them. We will then send the agency a check at the close of the month to be credited toward your account. 


You receive $10 for every shirt sold that has your name added to the memo line.  Look for "add special instructions to the seller" Ad.  Click on the blue "ad" and put a name to be credited for the shirts.  It is hard to see this sentence if you are not looking for it.  It mostly appears under the address portion. 


Also....T SHIRT GIVE AWAY!!
 Once we hit over 300 blog followers, we will be giving away a free t shirt of your choice, to one lucky blog follower which will be chosen through a random drawing you will watch on video :)

Have A Great Weekend!! 
Happy Shirt Selling!

New Waiting Children.....

First of all, way to go on the shirt sales! We shipped out over 50 shirts yesterday and the orders are coming in for you guys.  We will give you an update of your totals sometime next week and then try to keep you updated week to week through the end of November. Woo hoo for y'all!!


I recently partnered with Wasatch International Adoptions to advocate for some of their waiting children from China. These cuties are currently waiting.  They are allowed to go on an open site which is why I can give you all a peek. Visit my OH site for further info on each of these children. I have some of their waiting children on my site. Visit their waiting children page to see all of their current waiting children.  Let's advocate and find these children homes during this month of adoption awareness.  

Above all else, pray for these children who are waiting for their family to come. Prayer changes things for sure!!

The Shirt Sales Are Coming In.....

 I'm loving seeing all the names coming in of families that are in the process of adopting and taking advantage of our t shirt profit give away!! Way to go! This is exciting for me because having adopted a child from Ethiopia, I know how every penny is precious to most of us out there.  I also know how I always wracked my brain to come up with fund raiser ideas.  So we are thrilled to be able to offer this, along with other fun stuff this month for all you guys!!

I wanted to throw up a few more pics of some of our shirts for you all, to show you how they look on people. Very top pic is the new OH grey shirt. I think she is wearing the medium which is a loose fit on a girl. My teen daughter, above, is a size small in the white shirt.

 My teen son, above, is sporting the adult size small in the black Africa shirt.

 Here is our July OH mission team sporting our Africa shirt in indigo and black.

 Here is a full shot of the size small for a teen in white.

 Here are two different looks for t shirts in the winter.  I will let me and my sister be the models, Ha! As you can see, you can put the long sleeve shirt underneath and add the cute vest, or you can dress it up with the longer flowy jacket and boots. We are wearing the size medium in these rust shirts. (I was some kind of version of cat girl at our Halloween outreach :)

Above, I am wearing the black Africa shirt in small with a thin longer shell jacket on top, with long necklaces at our "Water For Korah" event.

Then we must not forget the kiddos, below.  The cutie in the middle is wearing the kids "I'm Gonna Change The World" shirt, and the two on the ends are actually wearing the adult smalls. Then of course, Lucy at the bottom, is always a cute toddler model :)  Hope this helps.  Enjoy your shirt selling. Don't forget to order from the right side bar of this blog and put the person's name in the memo box to get the credit.

It's Adoption Awareness Month! Let us Help You Raise Some Funds For Those Adoptions!

What is the biggest question when it comes to adoption? 

How will I ever raise all that money? 

Next Sunday is Adoption Sunday. We want to take the whole month of November and dedicate it to adoptions. We want to help raise money for your adoption as well as bring more awareness of adoption. We have been trying to think of some clever and practical ways that we can do that. So here is one way.....

Throughout the whole month of November we are dedicating 100% of all of the profit of our t shirt sales to all of you who are in the process of adopting. So here is how it works.

Email us ~  at info@ordinaryhero.org

Send us your name, address, phone, and which adoption agency you are signed with, their website and phone number and contact person. We need to verify that you are signed with them so that we can send the donation at the end of the month from your shirt sales to your agency in order for it to be credited to your account.

Then sell those shirts! You will sell them for $24.95 a piece by linking people to our blog, where they can order. They will put your name in the "add special instructions to seller" box and you will get the credit. You will receive $10 for every shirt you sell. That leaves $10 for us to cover our cost in order to keep purchasing more orders of them, and the extra 4.95 for the shipping and handling.

So that is $10 a shirt!! You can sell them however you like. Have your friends sell them too, put it out on facebook, or blog, linking them to our blog, where they can purchase..... as long as everyone is putting your name in the memo line, you get the credit at the end of the month.

We will be putting out new items for sale, all throughout the month as well.  We have a new long sleeve kids shirt coming out soon!  You sell it, you get the $10 profit from it.

If you have a business that you would like to donate some profit from, for this month, toward our adoption grant fund, or toward a specific family, let us know, and we can put the word out. Get the sales in, then make that donation toward either the grant fund, or that special family you are trying to help.
If you would like to participate by giving a tax deductible gift toward this adoption grant fund, you may CLICK HERE.   We will be giving it away at the end of the month.

Here is the exciting news!! We are going to match the amount given to the top three families who have the  highest shirt sales. So let's say you sell 50 shirts...you get $500 toward your adoption. If you fall in the top three, that will be doubled to $1000!!

So let me be clear that we are giving away all of our grant money that we have in our own budget as well as whatever else comes in during the month of November. We have some exciting ideas of other ways to have you participate and share your story of how you came to start your adoption, with an adoption grant give away in the end :) !!  More details coming soon.

As far as today's announcement...it's shirts!!

Send us your info......and get to selling....shirts available for purchase on the right side bar of this blog. 

Have fun and be creative.

Email us any questions you might have to info@ordinaryhero.org

Happy Halloween Outreach 2010

I can't tell you how fun it is to take a child's wish list..........
And make it happen!
To take a child, who could use a break from the reality of the mission for a day, from dreaming about what they would like to be.......
to making that dream come true, even if just for a day.
We showed up to the mission with the children already excited, and awaiting our arrival. They have been looking forward to this fun day since we were there over a week ago taking their pictures to find out what they would like to dress up as. As you can see above, one by one, they would walk up and patiently wait and gaze into the bag to see what I would pull out with their little name on it. Then you see their eyes fly open wide with excitement and their great big smiles light up their little faces.......and then ......

you have a little monkey :-).......

or a candy corn witch....
or a little spiderman and fairy with our adorable dressed up volunteers......
or an awesome iron man, who specifically asked me to take his picture because he knew he looked awesome :)
This little pea pod decided to try himself out for a taste....mmmmm, peas might not taste so bad after all :)

All the moms enjoyed everything as much as the kids.

I met some new friends from Ethiopia, who I was immediately drawn to. I couldn't wait to introduce her to my son.
Our adorable dressed up volunteers below drove all the way in from Chattanooga to be a part of our outreach and take notes. Yes, Chattanooga, there might be an Ordinary Hero heading your way very soon. We are super excited!!
Ashli, below, had fun with her angel for the day. She is an Ordinary Hero to the core. She showed up to help with this outreach and leaves in 5 days to head over to Ethiopia to live and serve.....for good! Amazing!!
My two teen boys with all their cutie teen friends.....

The kids always LOVE the pony rides.

I can't tell you what an awesome group of volunteers we had this year. It was amazing to pull up with two 15 passenger vans, two suburbans, and a truck full of moms and kids and there is a volunteer for each child and mom ready and waiting our arrival......SIMPLY AWESOME!!

Each volunteer walked around for the day with either a child, or a child and mom to offer help and fellowship. Wonderful new friends are always made at this event. Being a volunteer at this exact outreach has proven to be life changing on many different levels in years past. I will do a blog post about it soon. It's pretty unbelievable.
We had awesome volunteers show up from different churches, small groups, group of co workers, blog followers, friends, and friends of friends who all just wanted to show their support and make a difference in a child's life.

All the moms always appreciate and enjoy this opportunity to get away from the norm and have a day of fun with their children. You should have seen them all coming up to me afterwards and thanking me from the bottom of their hearts......so sweet!

This mom and daughter below were in the doughnut eating contest together......Mom won!

I grabbed a pic of 3 cutie men in my life below, showing their support. Hubby drove a van and transported goods, and passed out costumes, and my kids helped stuff treat bags.

My sister, Kristi, who most of you know through the blog world, is always an OH #1 supporter.

She showed up with her two oldest girls and helped us get the kiddos ready at the mission as well as drove a car load, and helped take this little princess around for the day.

I love walking around and seeing all the kids having so much fun with their new friends.
Their big smiles say it all :)

These boys rode back with me in my car and couldn't have been sweeter. They all talked about how much they really liked their volunteer. The Superman on the end saw me at the festival and came up to me and just gave me a hug and then walked on about his way. It was so sweet....just his way of saying thank you and that he was having a great day :)

Just have to give a HUGE shout out and THANK YOU to the Sloop family and Americhoice in Nashville for their generous sponsorship, as well as my friend, Cricket's, sunday school class at Brentwood United Methodist, and the women's bible study group at Bethel World Outreach for their support and sponsorship of this outreach. I want to thank each of you Ordinary Heroes who have donated towards a costume and meal for this event. Each child received his or her very own costume and also each mom and child received $10 to spend on a meal and snacks, or whatever they want at the event. You should have seen the kids light up over that :) Also, want to put out a special thank you to Bethel World Outreach for hosting everyone at the fall festival.
And last but not least, a special thank you to our two volunteers, Paul and Jen, who drove in from Chattanooga to help out and show their support. They are in the process of adopting from Rwanda. I told them our picture would be a tshirt ad, Ha!

And I, personally, say a big Whoo! and Amen! as I thank God for another very smooth and blessed Halloween Outreach for 2010. Thank you all!!