On Sunday we held the 3rd annual German Dinner at Gasthof to benefit LLS. Each year the event has increased in size and this year we had over 400 guests and 300 items in the auction! All the TNT participants who took advantage of the event did a great job of selling tickets and getting items donated. We had well over $20,000 in auction items! Great job everyone!
We're still tallying the money but we know it will be another record year. We're flirting with the idea of having two of these events each year which would be a lot of work but we know we can come close to selling the place out each time. Everyone has such a great time at Gasthof and people who attended in prior years are always asking when the next one will be. It just keeps snowballing which is awesome!
I've been reading a book over the last few weeks that is a collection of war letters from U.S. soldiers from each of our wars, from the Civil War to Desert Storm. I find myself in awe of what these men and women endured and it makes me appreciate all the more the sacrifices they make. It's very humbling. Right now I'm reading letters written during WWII. There is usually some commentary between the letters to give you an idea of what was going on or what the letter is referring to, which really helps to put you in the right frame of mind. As I'm reading them I'll share with you any that really affect me.
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I found the historical tidbit below to be very interesting. Perhaps you will too. This is from a daily email I get from Bill Federer.
SEPTEMBER 16, 1620, according to the Gregorian Calendar, 102 Pilgrims set sail on the Mayflower.
The 66-day journey of 2,750 miles encountered storms so rough the beam supporting the main mast cracked and was propped back in place with an iron screw of a printer's press.
One youth, John Howland, was swept overboard by a freezing wave and rescued. His descendants include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Humphrey Bogart, Franklin D. Roosevelt and George W. Bush.
On the Pilgrims' voyage, a boy died, and a mother gave birth.
Intending to land in Virginia, they were blown off-course. Of their landing, Governor William Bradford wrote:
"Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element."
Though half died that first bitter winter, Governor William Bradford wrote:
"Last and not least, they cherished a great hope and inward zeal of laying good foundations...for the propagation and advance of the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in the remote parts of the world."
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