PLEASE HELP!

So, here's the deal; we need some help. We have some money to put toward our moving out of the hood; we can use our savings of about $1000 (that I'll put in this fund) but we could use some help making it the rest of the way.

As most of you know, we live on Madison Ave and Hall St right near the Fish Fry, and as the rowdy weekends and hangout is spent at that Fish Fry (I have no idea why), there also have been shootings on a few weekends. After I found a bullet in the crack of the sidewalk in our backyard, we decided that we had to move.

That requires us to need to get out of our current lease, spending $1,400 for that (two month's rent), and to move into our next place would be around $750 plus a $750 deposit; hence the $2,900 as our total. We wouldn't move or break our lease if we didn't feel like we had to, but we feel that we do have to for all of our safety.

Please help us make our goal! We know that we will get a little help if we ask... but we had to ask.

Thank you all SO much! If you have any questions, PLEASE ask. I would be more than happy to answer any and all questions; we're an open book. We're trying to raise these funds by the end of June (when we'd like to move). Any little bit would help, even if it's only $5.

To help financially, if you have a PayPal account, use this link (if you don't have a PayPal account you can still use this, but there is a fee):

http://hobndeyo.chipin.com/our-move-out-of-the-hood

If you would like to send a personal check, make it out like this (feel free to keep it anonymous):

To: Holly Carmichael

Memo: Fundraiser

Mail it to:

Holly Carmichael

1243 Madison Ave. SE

Grand Rapids, MI 49507

Thank you all SO MUCH! We promise to only use this money to move us out of this area and to be good stewards of your sacrificial gifts.

Matthew 6:25-34

"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you,O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,and all these things will be added to you.

"Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."