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| Joanna Pepper (left) is hosting another iPad raffle this year! |
“What gave me the idea for a raffle? It just
sort of popped into my head one day,” Joanna shared. “Inspiration? Maybe! There
are people who are such natural fund raisers, but I am not one of them! I
despise asking people for money! But, I was not satisfied with the few hundred
dollars I raised in 2011. So, I had my wheels spinning on ways to raise funds
without feeling like I was pestering people.”
After she received an iPad for a gift, she
knew she had a winning idea. Instead of simply asking for donations, she’d sell
tickets and raffle a great prize that appealed to a wide audience. So she
sought out a donor to purchase an iPad, printed tickets and found a fundraising
solution that worked for her.
“The look on the winner's face last year was
priceless! He had bought a ticket at the last minute the day of the walk at the
zoo,” Joanna recalled.
So why does she go to all this work to raise
funds?
“I was asked in my college Biology course to
pick a medical issue that has moral connotations and use Scripture to support
my stance on that issue. I chose abortion,” Joanna remembered. “Aside from the
overwhelming scientific evidence that a new being is formed at the moment of
conception, when I researched what the Bible had to say, I had an 'ah ha'
moment. How can I not be compelled to action in defense of the unborn?”
“Honestly, seeing women and their children
that have been impacted by CPC is the thing that keeps me involved in the
ministry,” Joanna said. “The tangible evidence of the fruit of the ministry
encourages me to no end. Also, I have been encouraged in the fact that
persistence in my personal fundraising efforts seems to yield results as well.
More money is raised every year without that much more asking!”
If you’d like to help Joanna raise funds to
save lives, you can email her at kennyandjoanna@gmail.com
to participate in this year’s raffle for a black 16GB iPad 4 with an Ematic
10-in-1 accessory kit. (Total value for the iPad and accessory kit is $550,
which was donated anonymously.) Raffle tickets are $10 each and a limit of 150
will be sold.
To start your own fund-raising efforts with a
personal webpage, visit www.cpcfriends.org/walk.
