PART I: Saturday, February 27th (5:30pm – 9:00pm)
Featuring a candlelight night hike around Highview’s wooded prairie — guided by sponsored luminaries throughout the half-mile loop. Come take “a closer walk with Thee” and enjoy a warm campfire, hot drinks, cookies, and some safe, out-of-the-Covid-coop fellowship when you’re done. Dress appropriately for the candlelit stroll through the snow, and bring a flashlight in case the full moon is obscured overhead.
PART II: Sunday, February 28th (after morning worship)
Join us outdoors again for more fellowship and refreshments! Grab a hot drink and sample some homemade cherry pie. Bid on our silent auction fundraiser items. Support our “Coins for Kids” pocket change appeal. Spray paint (with food coloring) a snow mural. Take home a pre-cooked, frozen “Ribs for Ribe” order or a prepared Door County cherry pie kit, and tastefully say goodbye to winter!
How Can You Support the Fundraiser?
1. Consider sponsoring a portion of the luminary trail: Your cash or check donation will be 100% allocated to one of our current partnership project initiatives in Ribe, Kenya.
And with a sponsorship donation of $5 per luminary, several project goals can be addressed:
With 10 sponsored luminaries: Covid-19 washable masks can be purchased for 50 school children, OR malaria-fighting sleep nets can be installed over 10 children’s beds, OR nutritious lunches can feed 30 school kids for one week (Meal of Hope program), OR handwashing and sanitizing stations can be set up at 5 public locales; OR two dozen palm or citrus saplings can be transplanted in the village’s reforestation plot.
In combination with other Highview donors, your luminary sponsorship can achieve even more!
With 40 sponsored luminaries: Ribe’s Meal of Hope program can feed 30 grade schoolers for a full month
With 60 sponsored luminaries: Primary school fees for a young Ribean girl can be covered for a full year
With 70 sponsored luminaries: A durable 1500-liter surface water storage tank can be installed to serve multiple homes
With 80 sponsored luminaries: Feminine hygiene and home care supplies can be provided for young women who are mentored through the Sisters in Love church women’s group
With 100 sponsored luminaries: Classroom supplies can be gifted for each of Ribe’s 12 primary school teachers
With 180 sponsored luminaries: A durable 5000-liter surface water storage tank can be installed and address drinking water and handwashing needs at a school, clinic or church
With 220 sponsored luminaries: A village playground can be constructed (with 2 slides, swing sets, and teeter totters)
With 500 sponsored luminaries: A village shallow well cistern can be completed, and provide domestic water security for several residential units during prolonged drought months It all adds up to lighting the way to abundant blessings of security, provision and hope in our partner village!
2. Purchase some take-home food in support of our fundraiser: Your purchase will enable 50% to be allocated toward one of our current partnership project initiatives in Ribe, Kenya.
$30 for a 5-pound bag of frozen, fully cooked, smoked “Ribs for Ribe” pork sparerib ends and pieces,
perfect for two or more hungry souls, and ready just to heat up and serve!
$40 for a Door County tart cherry pie kit, featuring two large jars of Cherryland’s Best pie filling
and two prepared pie crusts; just load up your your pie pans and pop them in the oven!
3. Participate in our “Coins for Kids” pocket change appeal, in honor of Jane Hausser’s legacy and passion for women and children in need. Proceeds will directly support annual school fees for a young female student in Ribe. Just look for the large glass flask in the narthex and help us fill it to the brim!
4. Bid on one of our silent auction items, offered by the Highview Mission Committee team. The list includes a wine tasting event, a singing gig, a lake country dinner cruise, a commemorative sports item (think Robin Yount), a signature Alaskan diamond willow hiking stick, a Fit Bit, and more…