My Dear Friends,
Most of you know that I spend most of the month of March organizing our annual fundraiser for the Hogs For The Cause charity benefitting families with children suffering brain cancers. Many of you have been extraordinarily generous and I thank you for your efforts. What you may not know is that the final piece of our contribution is serving 800 or more helpings of our offerings to the public at the festival. There, ALL PROCEEDS go to the Hogs Foundation for the family grants, this is wonderful but presents a challenge: the expenses to put that part of the event on for us are tremendous. The last three years we’ve been blessed with an increasing amount of corporate sponsorships and donations to help offset our enormous food, supply and planning/bookkeeping costs but thus far not even half of our expenses have been covered. I’ve listed a few items below that if you have the means, I ask you to consider sponsoring our Friday & Saturday service any or all of the items listed below, MEANING YOU’LL DONATE THE DOLLAR AMOUNT NOT THE PRODUCT.
$120.00 – 150 lbs of pre-cut and prepped , french-fried potatoes- Thanks to Jim Thiele for sponsoring this item!
$75.00 – 1 Case fresh parsley – Thanks to ______________ for sponsoring this item!
$150.00 – 2 35 lb container of FryMax cooking oil – Thanks to __________ for sponsoring this item!
$125.00 – 1 Case Boston Butt pork shoulder – Thanks to __________ for sponsoring this item!
$100.00 – 1 Case St Louis style pork ribs – Thanks to ____________ for sponsoring this item!
$100.00 – 1 Case pecan smoked bacon – help
$250.00 – Dry goods for food service – help
$275.00 – One Whole Hog – Thanks to ___________ for sponsoring this item!
$380.00 – Sanitation Services – Thanks to __________ for sponsoring this item!
If you wish to financially support mine and the Death Chefs efforts you can use the cash donation link in the Founders Tradin’ Post or call us at 866-483-3833 or send a check in using an overnight or 2 day delivery service (e-mail me for a shipping label if you need one). We use FedEx and can generate that shipping at a 20% discount because of the quantity of shipping we do with them.
I am happy to promote your assistance by name and send you a 2016 Death Chefs t-shirt, cooking apron or baseball cap!
I sincerely thank you for your time and consideration my friends. This event puts an enormous stress on us every March and then April because we’ve been hesitant to appeal for financial assistance that might detract from the charity/fundraising efforts. I hope our dedication to The Cause is evidence that this appeal is necessary for our ability to dedicate so much time and resources to this Cause.
Pax Domini tecum, et gratia magna
Mike & Candace Church
Host of the Mike Church Show on The Veritas Radio Network's CRUSADE Channel & Founder of the Veritas Radio Network.
Formerly, of Sirius/XM's Patriot channel 125. The show began in March of 2003 exclusively on Sirius and remains "the longest running radio talk show in satellite radio history".
jkristdmd on March 29, 2016
I received your solicitation to donate to Hogs for a cause. I attempted to purchase a tee shirt. It will not let me purchase them because I am a founders pass member. If I register as a founder’s pass member the tee shirts are not available. Now I hear Mike complain on his show how people complain about every little thing. So I DON’T WANT TO COMPLAIN……. but I buy things on line all the time, and I don’t have any problem. So maybe as soon as I get on your website I become an idiot or maybe (and remember I am not complaining) you have a problem with how you have things arranged. If I can’t register as member and I can’t check out as a guest, I HAVE No Options
TheKingDude on March 30, 2016
The Founders Pass Membership credentials DO NOT WORK IN THE TRADIN POST STORE. I have said this over and over and over and have even emailed 17k people about it. The data needed to process an order that has to be shipped or downloaded is not the same as what is needed to purchase a purely ONLINE membership, thus you must register a Store account to check out so if SOMETHING GOES WRONG WE CAN CONTACT YOU AND FIX IT.
Complain away, Sir, I really ponder why I show up everyday and why I don’t just walk away after reading my own site, some days.