Living Rarefied

I guess people do read this thing, so I hope I am not selling out here, but thought I would use my blog as a way to invite me readers to be a part of the Young Life portion of my life. I'm gonna post a status ticker on the left navigation bar of this blog under "Young Life Golf $ Raised"

Its that time of year again!!!

First off, I want to thank those of you for supporting me and Young Life
last year in the annual Golf Tournament. I am posting this out in hopes that you are willing to sponsor me again or for the first time this year.
This year's golf tournament fundraiser is being held Monday June 19th. Again the goal is to raise money for the local area of Young Life, a non-denominational national Christian organization focused on high school kids. There have been 2 major fundraisers the Minneapolis South Young Life area each year, the Fall Banquet and the Golf Tournament in the spring. This year Young Life partnered with World Vision in a silent/live auction event May 11th at the International Market Square that was a great success!

I am a big supporter of Young Life because of the positive impact they have had on me and the lives and faiths of thousands of teenagers in the Twin Cities area alone. I have just completed my 10th year involved with Young Life at some level, either as a kid, camper, supporter and now leader! We have seen substantial growth in the ministry I am involved with in the last year. We took 10 kids to Frontier Ranch in Buena Vista Colorado, which was more in 1 summer than we had taken in the previous 4 years! God has blessed our ministry again this year with some major additions. We have a new staff leader in charge of our group, Andy Swanda. He's been a blessing to me as he has taken over some of the responsibilities I had, which has enabled me to expand relationships with the students. A few new volunteer leaders have joined us too! My younger sister Alexis joined us last summer after she graduated from college and moved home. Another leader who joined us in the fall is John Hilbelink. John has been a great addition and the students have been very excited and full of energy each week! As we move into this next season of YL, a few more leaders are ready to saddle up, Katie Pretzel and my older sister Leah. We're extremely excited for some new female leaders! Alexis is especially excited!

There is a change in venue this year that we are very excited about, we will be playing at the Edina Country Club. We are looking strong to fill out 28-32 foursomes this year. We are also very excited to start a relationship with ECC and look forward to keeping this tournament in close proximity to the communities we are involved with. Also our hopes with a consistent central location are to be able to partnership with businesses in the area. There are hole sponsorships available as well and I can send you an attached form. If your business or if you know of a business that would be interested in helping our ministry and gaining some exposure at the event, let me know!!

If you are interested in blessing the ministry to students of the Minneapolis South area, please let me know. Last year I was able to raise $4000 for our foursome! If you are interested and willing to, please simply e-mail or post a comment with your response with the $ amount. "otterlei [at] gmail [dot] com" (spelling is to keep spammers from harvesting my email…)

Thank you for the time to read this and your support. If you want more information on Young Life, please let me know.
Ethan

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