Do you find your checkbook unequal to the bills?  Has your loose change dwindled to lost funds?  How do you find finances to fulfill your vision when you’re barely making the cost of living?

Recent visits with missionary friends have garnered interesting insights into the perception of other cultures as they look to the U.S. for financial help.

1.  They see America as the land of plenty.

2.  They see Americans as wealthy.

How do you explain that people struggle here too?

Maybe we need to have a change of our own perception!

 

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Leave a comment so we can dialog about your financial brainstorms!

Sally     

  

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Hi Sally - Our local Applebee's Restaurant opens it's doors on Saturday mornings for Pancake Breakfasts to groups who want to raise money. Several groups have raised $300 or $400 by selling the $5 tickets (Applebees keeps a portion of the ticket price.) It is a much easier way to raise money than, for example, a car wash. :)Great blog!

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You're right Michelle, that's a great fundraiser. Pizza Hut is another chain that works with us. It brings out the social eaters!

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