Life with Laura: Park Church's Etsy site

I have been going to Park Church Denver for almost three years. Those of you who know Wes and me well know that Park Church is our home, our family. This is not only because we are both deacons and Wes works full time for the church. It is because we do life with these people seven days a week. We strive to love our neighborhood and city with these people. Our community at Park Church knows us well enough to call us out on our sin, celebrate our victories, and to push us closer to Jesus in both circumstances. We hear the Gospel (the life, death, and resurrection of Christ) preached from the pulpit every Sunday and demonstrated in the actions of our pastors day in and day out. For these reasons and many more, we believe in this church.

Since the church started in the summer of 2008, we have rented space. We are now making the move to purchase real estate in our neighborhood. This will allow us to continue to grow as a community the worships Jesus and to have a place of our own to open up the neighborhood. Wes and I oversee our church's outreach to our local high school, North High School. This includes Young Life, tutoring, PTSA, coaching, praying, and much more. Having a space will allow us to serve the school so much better. In the past, anytime we wanted to gather with the staff, parents, or students of North High School, we have had to find a space and pay for it. Not anymore!

Our church is currently raising money for the down payment and some initial repairs on this building. For the last five weeks, we have been working towards raising $289,500. With three weeks left in our fundraising campaign, we have around $135,000 yet to raise. Because Wes and I don't have much extra money, we figured labor would be out biggest contribution to the building. However, we wanted to support financially as well.

In order to do this, I have started an Etsy site that features arts and crafts from the women in our church. We are trying to raise $1,000 with this site. So far we have raised almost $200. Please help us reach our goal by purchasing something from our site. More stuff will be posted daily. Below I have posted photos of a few items. I have also posted the link to our site and a link that talks more about the building we are buying and why we are buying it.

Thanks for reading!