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Sales Commitment to a Community Development Project in the Phillipines - Update

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I've been reflecting on the coming of Easter as a celebration of the wedding between Christ and the Bride for some time. The bride is mankind. So, I've just been made aware of a need in the Phillipines. As I have a great love for mankind, and I want to do something to celebrate the future wedding reunion of Christ to the bride, I would like to do something for mankind now. This is my Easter present to the Lord. Whether I succeed in selling anything, it is the status of willingness which is important.

For this reason, I dedicate any art sales I have from now till Sunday night midnight (less tax I have to pay) to a community development project in the Phillipines. I recognize any money coming in from now till then as God's not mine, so I will pass it on.

I don't know a whole lot just yet, except a couple details, and that this group of people are living in poverty and disease. However, at a future date, I will repost a request to see if others will join me in donating proceeds of art to rebuild a group of people. I will find out the name of the social cooperative movement and how to donate. I may even make them a website with a donate button if they do not have one.

I do not know if there's going to be a great amount of sales. I cannot predict that. However, if you've been thinking about it, please consider buying my art this week. I would like to use this money to build a water and sanitation system for a group of people and I would like a little extra to begin some sort of trade in a social cooperative movement. I will announce the amount raised and donated on this blog.

I would like to take stock of the local resources and apply my creativity to thinking up things they could make and sell. If there were any engineers or fabrication experts who were willing to contact me or to join in a forum site I could make for release in about 2 months, I would like to put people in touch with this cooperative so that they can make products for export and reinvest in the community.

I studied community development and have a hero in the field - a Catholic priest. These thoughts have remained mostly internal. I welcome the opportunity to bring an inner desire to the forefront and hope that God sells whatever is needed to give this community a start.

For those who do not want to buy art and would donate $2 to this cause, here is a page of mine with a donate button. Copy-paste the link in your browser. http://bookeditorial.ca

Update: There were no sales from this fundraising event. It marks a start I hope as I work to now create a forum.