Goat Milk Soap

Come one, come all!

We just got our soap shipment in yesterday!  I can't believe how amazing my house smells.  I'm not one to typically ooh & ahh over bath products, but these soaps have completely turned me!

We have partnered up with Goat Milk Stuff, out of Indiana, to sell these awesome bars of soap as a fundraiser for our adoption.  It is such a great family business, and I love supporting local work.

A little about Goat Milk Stuff...

The all-natural goat milk, from their own farm raised Alpine dairy goats, provides moisturizing and healthy benefits to all skin types.  It's a long lasting product that has provided amazing quality for all their customers.  If you read the testimonies and reviews on these soaps online, tons of people with skin issues (dry skin, eczema, psoriasis, acne, rosacea, sensitive skin, etc) have said that these soaps have provided them the first relief they've had in years.  Plus, I can attest to the wonderful smells of each of them!  Plus, these are amazing for babies.

We are selling each bar for $7 (if you can do a local pick-up), $8.50 if you need it shipped (multiple bars shipped will have a discounted shipping cost - just message us first).  I've listed the bars we have below, with a little description of what's in each.  We only have a certain amount of bars, so get yours today!  We are getting about 55% of each bar back to our adoption fund (we have to cover shipping costs, which is why it's an "about") - that is seriously an amazing fundraiser!  We LOVE Goat Milk Stuff!

Testimonials: http://www.goatmilkstuff.com/Goat-Milk-Soap-Testimonials.html


(All these pictures I took myself - color unaltered)

See!! Such cute packaging!

 Lavender: Made with lavender essential oils.
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 Honeysuckle: Honeysuckle, with a hint of jasmine.
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Luv Spell: Victoria Secret scent-a-like.  Floral & citrus goodness.
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Ocean: clean scent; smells like there is a hint of cologne
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Oatmeal, Milk, & Honey: beautiful smell; can definitely pick out the sweet honey scent
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Nautical: a soft, manly scent
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Black Raspberry: black raspberry scent, with a hint of vanilla
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Clean Cotton: smells like a dryer. ah-mazing.
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Pink Sugary: the vanilla is what turns the bar brown instead of pink
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Purity: unscented
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Orphan Sunday 2013

Tomorrow is Orphan Sunday.  So many words, so many emotions, are associated with the thought of tomorrow.  For me, orphan sunday is like any other day, because everyday is orphan day.  The day after will be orphan monday, and the day after that will be orphan tuesday, and so on.  But, orphan sunday is a little more special.  More churches, more organizations, and more people will be talking about the kids who don't get tucked in at night, the kids that had to grow up too fast, and the kids that have lost hope.  Tomorrow is a peak within the movement.

Orphan Sunday is a beautiful thing.  It encourages others to talk about the orphan care movement, to see the faces of those left in institutions and foster care, and to open their hearts to something new.  Tomorrow will allow people to see the hope found in Jesus Christ.  So, whether you go to church, sit in your room, watch tv, or sleep in tomorrow, I pray that you open your heart a little more than normal.  Jesus can do some remarkable things... who knows - maybe you'll even get the "adoption bug".

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"Orphan Sunday calls people to boldly turn their hearts to children who are often forgotten: America's foster children, who are dismissed as 'unadoptable' because they are over a desired age, or the 'unseen' orphans in third world countries. Orphan Sunday acknowledges the needs of these children, and launches a tangible hope that stretches far beyond the scope of our reach." 

-Vanessa Vasquez

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Sunday, November 3 will not be a typical Sunday. Orphan Sunday is a very profound demonstration to the world about who the church of Jesus Christ is. And it’s happening among thousands of congregations around the world as they all focus on God the Father’s heart for, and work on behalf of, the world’s fatherless.
Prayers go up, people are sent out, and orphans are brought into families.

Faith in Jesus is more than a belief

Faith in Jesus is a belief that is like believing in the existence of a loved one. You don’t just say, “I believe my wife exists,” and that be that. Instead, you demonstrate it by talking with her and learning what her desires are and then serving her in those.
Orphan Sunday is a clear demonstration that we know our God and care about what He cares about by caring for orphans and vulnerable kids.

Our Father is good

Orphan Sunday sheds a public light on the inner life of the church. No one in the church is a disinterested bystander in the cause of the fatherless, since every one of us was rescued by God the Father and brought into His family through Jesus. When we get together to focus on that, we remind ourselves and those around us that our Father is good.’

The Holy Spirit is building a family

Through biblical teaching on Orphan Sunday, there will undoubtedly be many who are moved by the Father’s goodness to faith in Jesus. Others will be moved to take steps toward adoption, foster care, or child sponsorship. All will clearly see the big story through the Bible is about the Holy Spirit turning people into God’s children as hearts cry, “Abba, Father!”

The gospel is a message of hope for all creation

Everyone knows the world is messed up. We see it in the news, we smell it in the pollution, we feel it when we experience tragedy. No one is immune from the world’s brokenness.
Orphan Sunday is just another opportunity to share the gospel’s message of hope for all creation. This is a truth that sticks out in Romans 8:21,”Creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.” Speak out on November 3 that there is a future hope for the whole world and its found in Jesus Christ.

-Global Fingerprints