Alumni Dispatch #5: We want YOU! and YOU! and ALL Y'ALL!
HEY EVERYBODY!
Have you ever been given a plastic tarp and successfully (...enough) created a huge roof blanket out of it and therefore surely created a most elaborate, impossible, and critically important piece of construction origami? Have you ever gained a personal respect for the reasons why metal ladders shouldn’t be put too near to power lines, should maintain the 4 to 1 ratio in rise, and are really best when stable?
…and lived to tell about it?!
This is for you.
I know I’m the one speaking and then interrupted and this may be a bit meta in the sense that I’m both speaking AND interrupting myself, but I’d like to think of it as...
press PLAY! press PLAY!
COME ON. You people! {Sigh.} We are so elated.
$10,000 increase in EBC annual giving? CHECK.
$10,000 dollar-for-dollar match? MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
SOMETHING BIG* has been secured.
...now let’s go big. You know we know how to pack this place out…
We had set a big goal to move the EBC to being representative of 25% of all summer staff, which would require 43 new EBC members. We’ve since added 21 new members to the ranks. Will you help us eek out 22 more?!
And because the thrills just don’t cease…
”BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE!”
ANOTHER DOLLAR-FOR-DOLLAR MATCH!
…has been offered in celebration of growing the EBC numbers! The next $1,000 dollars annually committed by new EBC members (joining at just $5/month, but more if you’d like!) will be matched by an anonymous EBC couple.
Join the EBC for a bunch of good reasons, but also to grab your golden ticket to SOMETHING BIG!:
Friday - Sunday (Sept. 24-26, 2021)
Massive EBC Alumni Family Reunion
Your EBC membership is your golden ticket! Join us as we curate a “best of SOS” weekend for those of you who love it best. Best food, best quirks, best memories, best sights, best games, best teachings, best songs, best faces. The challenge will be ours! ...To fit a million beautiful details of the story of SOS and each of you into those few and fantastic hours we’ll have to share!
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again:
I like you people,
Papa Phil
Not an EBC member yet? The minimum commitment to join the EBC is only $5 per month! Sign up today!
Already an EBC member? Consider increasing your gift by $5 or $10 (or more!) per month. Just fill out this simple form and we’ll take care of the rest!
Get more details and follow our progress with updates about, you know…BIG THINGS over at the EBC HQ.
Money, money, money…isn’t the big “why” here. It’s ensuring the on-going and future efforts of SOS are sustained by, informed by, and representative of the very best and truest of SOS: you. The alumni family of SOS is some of the sweetest fruit of the work that God has done through SOS. We want you close, connected, and invested so that SOS can count you as wise counsel as we continue to seek a mission and a vision that heralds the Kingdom of our Good, Good King.
We’ve sought to create an entry level giving requirement that we hope will allow giving from diverse budgets. Should the monthly giving requirement be a hurdle too great, please reach out. We’d rather work to eliminate or lessen the hurdle than to lose your participation entirely!