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2008 Rocky Mountain Mennonite Relief Sale

The Rocky Mountain Mennonite Relief Sale got off to a rousing start with the voices of eighty men from the Kansas Mennonite Men’s Choir. Their music touched our hearts and they performed to an overflow crowd, with many standing around the perimeter. The evening was topped of with pie by the slice, a dip of ice cream, and the once a year reunions that take place among many of our participants.

On Saturday we started the morning with a brisk blue sky that melted into a 80 degree picture perfect day. The regular auction started with our traditional loaf of bread that sold for $1850.00, then was sliced and each slice was auctioned for a total of $4250. Along with all the great food items, crafts, quilter’s corner, Ten Thousand Villages, the regular auction, quilt auction, kid’s auction, and the silent auction did a spirited business. The barrel train rides are always a great hit with the kids and the Coffee with Friends Tent complete with musicians playing throughout the day is drawing larger and larger crowds. The total for the sale will be very near $122,064. Though down about $10,000. dollars from recent years, it was still a grand success. The bigger ticket items, our top quilts and the restored tractor, didn’t bring in the amounts we’ve grown accustom to receiving.

As persons from the far ends of the Mountain States Mennonite Conference, Boulder, Carlsbad, Greeley, Fort Collins, Perryton, TX., Farmington, persons from Canon City and Albuquerque as well as Kansas and surrounding states left the sale to return home, we witnessed a brilliant sunset with pumpkins scattered in the fields to remind us of a great and wonderful God! We had hearts fulfilled, after two beautifully warm days, ripe with fun and fellowship, and reminders of the needs around the world that we had a small part in helping.

Faye Brenneman and Lynn Horner