Ten Thousand Villages Sale Was the Best Yet!
Ten Thousand Villages Fair Trade Craft Sale held October 27, 2007 at St. Mark’s realized $11,819.35 before taxes. This is greater than last year’s total sales of $11,200. The profit from $3,500 in sales would keep a family of four for one year. The profit that St. Mark’s garnered for the crafts people, this year, was sufficient to keep 3.4 families of four for one year!
Thanks to all who worked at the sale, unpacked, set up, those who worked on checkouts, those who prepared food for the volunteers, those who packed up the remaining crafts at the end of the sale and those enlightened, discerning shoppers who chose to support this admirable cause. A special thanks to Jean Wilson, who opened her home to the people from the Mennonite Central Committee. Ten Thousand Villages is a non-profit program of Mennonite Central Committee, the relief and development agency of Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches in North America. St. Mark’s has hosted this Craft show and sale for a number of years and it was decided to do it again next year. So, mark your calendar for October 25, 2008.
Lana MacLean
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