Three Reasons Why International Missions Are Important

This update shares why international missions are important to our homeschool.

INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS

Thank you for your donations to our fundraising campaign for our missions trip to South Africa’s Teboho Trust school for at risk kids in Soweto.

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 We are so glad that Justine has been making some delicious fudge and wanted to bless you with some as a thank you gift, too. Our October 2014 donors will receive some fudge from Justine’s fresh batch soon.

CURRENT STATUS OF FUNDRAISER

Our current status in our fundraising campaign is that we are starting over. We decided that we would not give up on our missions trip goal, but that we would change our approach.

If you would like to keep up with our progress and give to our cause, please click or copy and paste this link:

http://gofundme.com/safricamissions

3 REASONS WHY

Having this opportunity to volunteer on a global scale is important for our young learners because:

• 1st – We believe in the mission of Teboho Trust, after reading about the founder and watching the video (click here to see video). Their goal is to be a safe place where their learners can focus on their studies, instead of all the surrounding drama, and successfully matriculate and move on to higher education.
• 2nd – We know that traveling, especially internationally, combined with volunteering, expands a student’s perspective of life and of the world, helping them to become more compassionate global citizens. This is because our mom, Donna, was an international volunteer in her youth, which shaped how she lives and educates her own children now.
• 3rd – Most importantly, we believe that Father God has a destiny in this for all of our young learners. There are some experiences that He has waiting for them in South Africa which will connect them with His destiny for their lives.

We would love to share with you as we take this journey. We will provide more updates through our fundraising campaign page on the gofundme platform.

QUESTIONS FOR YOU

Have you included volunteering and/or international travel as part of your homeschool? If so, what impact has it had on your learners?

Thank you for reading!

~Donna, The Mommy of #ButterflyHomeschool

Delicious Homemade Fudge Chocolate For Fall

UPDATE – OUR DEPOSIT AMOUNT WAS REDUCED AND THE DUE DATE WAS EXTENDED. YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO HELP US. READ ON TO LEARN MORE.

Our aspiring Chef Justine has been perfecting her delicious homemade fudge chocolate skills this Fall. You can be sure that all of her family members are enjoying being her taste testers! 🙂

PREVIEW – Click to watch delicious homemade fudge chocolate video.

To Watch Video, Visit Our GoFundMe page for our S Africa Missions Fundraiser http://www.gofundme.com/safricamissions

DELICIOUS HOMEMADE FALL FUDGE CHOCOLATE

If you would like for Justine to send you our thank you gift (a small batch of delicious homemade fudge chocolate), consider giving $20 or more to our missions trip fundraising campaign on GoFundMe between October 8th and 15th of 2014. On our GoFundMe page, we posted a brand new update and included a video that Justine made while she was cooking.

You can see the video at this link:

http://www.gofundme.com/safricamissions

MISSIONS FUNDRAISING GOAL:

Raise the rest ($2,380) of the

UPDATE $1200 deposit due by 10/31

$2400 deposit by October 15, 2014

To learn more about our trip and our goal, please visit the gofundme page at the link or type in http://www.gofundme.com/safricamissions

Going To South Africa With Kingdom Purpose

IMPORTANT UPDATE – We have not given up on our dream of volunteering at the Teboho Trust school for at risk youth in Soweto, South Africa, even though the KDE trip deposit deadline passed. We provided more details about what we plan to do now on our gofundme fundraiser page. Please click the image below or click here to learn more about our current goals.

South Africa Missions Trip #ButterflyHomeschool – TO GIVE NOW – CLICK IMAGE

Our family has had an ongoing love and passion for volunteering, especially when it has to do with things we are most interested in including: God, family, children and business. Because of this love, we have been volunteering with the Kingdom Driven Entrepreneur Community. We affectionately call it the KDE Movement. It covers all of those bases of helping expand the Kingdom of God by helping families, kids and businesses.

VOLUNTEERING FOR KINGDOM EXPANSION

Over the past year or so, the Mom, Donna Marie Johnson, and the kids have participated by:

• Interviewing KDE Founders Shae Bynes and Antonina Geer Before They Launched The Community in 2012
• Moderating Business Forum in the online KDE Community
• Leading as Certified Small Group Leader Locally for #AtlantaKDE
• Volunteered at the Atlanta Firestarter Tour
• [FUTURE] Volunteer at South African At-Risk Kids’ School: Teboho Trust

#ButterflyHomeschool Kids Volunteering at KDE Firestarter Atlanta Tour

In the near future, we will have another opportunity to serve, and this time internationally during the South African Retreat and Missions Trip to the Teboho Trust school which helps protect and educate at-risk kids to ensure they get a better start in life.

FOUR WAYS YOU CAN SUPPORT OUR MISSIONS TRIP

If you’d like to help us, please support us one or more of the following ways:

• 1. Pray For The Johnson Family Regularly

  • Henry, Donna, Justine, Samuel and Charity

• 2. Support Us Financially & Believe BIG With Us

  • Click Here To Go To Learn More About The Financials

• 3. Follow/Subscribe to Our Blog Updates

  • Keep Up With What We Are Doing (and keep praying for us, too)

• 4. Share Our Updates

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Thank you so much for reading, sharing and supporting us.

We love you!

Sincerely,

The Johnson Family – Henry, Donna, Justine, Samuel and Charity

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