Play It Again, Sam: 80,000 to $1.00

Dear Samuel,?

It was PURE JOY to hear you play!?Yes, I think you can find 80,000 Americans -- probably in Nebraska alone - who will pay $1.00 each for your education.??

ask for help - it's good for?the?soul?

Find them. Asking for help is biblical. Is it hard??Yes.?Is it humbling??Yep.?Is it awkward??You bet.?Will it kill all your pride and awkwardness and self-consciousness??Yes. That's because when one trusts God and let go of our fears one becomes the best, in your case, Samuel DeKleva in Christ one can be.?

success?

Will you get ALL of the $80,000??Probably - but then again, maybe you'll get more than that...or a bit less.. But ANY amount people invest in you will be less for you and your parents to pay in the form of loans.?You can get the monies...just ask, seek, knock.??

Yet, will it be rewarding??Yes.?Will it be a form of a long-form education for you in how to get investors in your research??Yes.?It's a warm up act - it being this process of going after monies at a young age -- for all future endeavours ahead.??

debt as a kind of slavery?

"The debtor is the SLAVE to the lender..." says the Bible in Proverbs 22:7 - so do NOT become a slave to a lender...in interest and compound interest.?See below for the link to the bible passage. Check it out:

biblical support for asking for help?

Read the gospel passages of Matthew and Luke??-- Matthew 7: 7-12 at this site from the USCCB bible which ends "do to others what you would have them do to you..."?

and also Luke 11: 9-13 here:?

where to?look?

I am not in Nebraska, and I'm broke (for now), but I'll pay $1.00 towards your fundraiser - and $5.00 if you get something set up within 2 weeks - that's 8/14.??

Thank you for the mini concert on?Saturday 7/29. The kindness and goodness of our short meeting?+ the music helped me to discern coming back to my short-term digs in Fort Wayne, Indiana.??

Follow the directions herein - there are 2 attachments.?Read them.?

Let me know if you have questions.??

Here's what I think:?

Set up a FUNdraising blog - let your benefactors?know you'll update them weekly with a mini-newsletter OR let them know you'll up date the blog twice a week.?Be creative.?People want to know about you - who is Samuel DeKleva...why are we raising monies for him? To what will my $1.00, or $5.00, or $10.00, or $X dollars go...???Let them know.?Tell them.?

I am PRAYING for you mightily.?

You GOT this!?

Best to your parents and family.??

cheers and God bless,

Carol Therese Young