A Sighting in the Wild, January 2009
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THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
We did it! We raised $14,000! From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank all of you for your donations, your prayers, your encouragement, interest, and support. Your enthusiasm for the project enabled us to reach the goal in only two weeks and two days!
We have purchased the ads, and due to a delay, the interior ads, which were scheduled to begin the 15th, will now start December 22, along with the taillight ads. We have enough money to run these ads for five weeks instead of four. This means that the ads will run through January 25th, and thus be up through the Inauguration and March for Life! The ads for the sides of the buses have also been purchased and will run December 29th - January 25.
Our ad campaign has received lots of media attention. The day the story appeared in the DC Examiner, it was also a story on WMAL, and WTTG Fox 5, and WJLA 7 News. John Kelley wrote about us in the Washington Post. The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) featured a story on the 700 Club. London, England's The Guardian newspaper asked me to write a response to the American Humanist Association's column. A story appeared on a news website in The Netherlands and many people joined our Facebook group after hearing about us on the KLOVE radio network. So many bloggers heard about the campaign and helped spread the word to their readers.
I would like to especially thank Juan Aguilar and Marisa Stoolmiller for developing and maintaining the website and Facebook group. Thank you Mona Carter of Birdhouse Studio for designing the ad pro bono! And, I would like to thank my husband, Sean, for believing in this enough to put our move on hold for a few weeks!
I send all of you my best wishes for a very, Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year! This project came to me as a fruit of my prayer when I asked God what I could do to evangelize for Him; with a little faith and lots of support from friends and friends of friends, ideas that may seem out of reach are indeed possible.
God bless,
JoEllen Murphy
