Goodsearch for Jonathan House!

First of all, sorry to anyone who received an update from the blog. There was code error (apparently?). Oooops.

Anyways...Goodsearch has been introduced before, but we can all use reminders, can't we?

For every (valid) search someone makes on behalf of a charity registered on Goodsearch, that search will earn about $0.01. According to the website, through the fiscal years of 2006, 2007 and 2008, each search actually earned 1.3 cents. But...1 cent still adds up! For instance, if 100 people each searched on Goodsearch twice a day, the estimated revenue would total about $730! If shopping online is something you're interested in, you can also "Goodshop" for Jonathan House with many different stores offering a portion of the sale to Jonathan House!

To date, since registration, Jonathan House supporters have earned $160.88 (JH started on Goodsearch in January 2007)! That's $160.88 that our kids and friends in Sierra Leone didn't have before.

In 2007, JH earned $77.39 with 5817 searches. The biggest month was the first--January--with 705 searches earning $9.45. Impressive!

Last year, in 2008, JH earned only $28.68 with 2336 searches. Our best month was February with 306 searches earning $3.93. Our weakest month was December with 95 searches earning $.95!

So far in 2009, JH has earned $8.61 with 861 searches and $4.00 through Shopping. Our best month so far this year was March with 225 searches earning $2.25. Our weakest month so far was June with only 43 searches! In July we've only searched 20 times, earning an entire 20 cents!

So here's your challenge....search! Of course, make it valid. Wondering about something? Search for it. Here's a link on Goodsearch with badges, banners, logos and a few other ways to communicate to others and spread the word. Do you have a blog? Facebook? Myspace? A website? Just some ideas....

Can we finish off 2009 strong? 5.5 months left!

Search search search away! :-)

Message from Roger

We come to the end of the year and the season of the celebration of Christ's birth. We have so much to thank Him for....His salvation, His abundance He bestows on us in so many ways, and His constant care for us. We at Jonathan's House are continuously grateful for the kindness that all of you show all year long. That makes this note more difficult. We know you have so often sacrificed and given. Believe me, we never take that for granted. We come to the end of this season however and we find ourselves significantly short on our budget. If we were just hundreds of dollars short we could cut and make it work. But now we are 5 days away from wiring money for the month and we are about $6,000 short from meeting our budget. We have about $1600 which will feed our kids for the month, but it won't do any more than that. We still need to pay the staff, buy toothpaste and such, buy gas for the bus, feed the street and foster kids, buy fire wood, pay our bills, etc. I ask that each one of you join us as we ask Him what we should do or give to meet this month's need. I know He is able to meet the need however He deems fit. He is the God of all miracles. We know that this season and we trust Him as we have so many times before. He has called us to care for those with nothing. This gives Him so many opportunities to show His love to them. Thanks for caring and praying and sharing. I pray that the God of abundance will show Himself strong in your lives this season and the new year.

Sincerely and for all our kids,

Roger Hatch

Goodsearch

This has been mentioned before as an easy way to earn money for the organization. Since this was last posted about, there is a new part of this website: Goodshop! Read about it below. As Christmas draws closer (just two months from yesterday!), if you buy from any of these online stores (there are quite a few...) then go through this website after you've picked Jonathan House (or whatever organization you choose) and JH will receive a portion of the profit! How simple is that?! And it doesn't cost you anymore than had you gone to the store's site without going through Goodsearch. Search for Jonathan House Ministries where it instructs you to and it should come right up. Or click on the title of this post and it should bring you to the website with JonHouse already chosen! Thanks!!


Straight from the Goodsearch.com website:

Here's a new easy way to raise money for your favorite cause. Just start using Yahoo! powered GoodSearch.com as your search engine and they'll donate a penny to your favorite cause every time you do a search! In addition, do all of your shopping through their online shopping mall, GoodShop.com, where you can shop at more than 700 top online retailers and a percentage of your purchases will go to the charity or school of your choice. You pay the same price as you normally would, but a donation goes to your cause!
Here's the web site — http://www.goodsearch.com/. You can also read about GoodSearch in the NY Times, Oprah Magazine, CNN, ABC News and the Wall Street Journal.