I am soooo grateful to the GT message board community for making this possible. I'd kind of had this idea in the back of my head, but thought we just wouldn't be able to afford it. Our church (and especially the youth group) has a pretty poor demographic. I was just asking around about where I might find some cheaper tickets, and
@4shotB kind of took the bull by the horns and got a few people to contribute on another message board. So, as he said before, we have enough so far for 18 tickets. We have at least 26 youth going (already have that many signed up), 6 adult youth leaders, and 10 more adults in the church who said they want to go and were planning on paying their own way. Most in this crowd are not really GT fans, which I think is pretty cool. We have to go to a game in October due to scheduling on the church calendar and my own life schedule. I was told by the ticket office that the cheapest they could do for a group rate would be $35/ticket for any of the 3 games in October. So, as of now we're planning on the Miami game on October 1.
What we have left:
at least 8 more youth - $280
+ 6 adult youth leaders - $210
+ 10 more adults - $350
+ Anything extra could go toward a meal before/after the game for the entire group
So, if we get enough to pay for the other 8 youth tickets, GREAT! If we also get enough to pay for the 6 adult youth leaders, EVEN BETTER! Then, if we get more than that to help pay for the other adults that want to go, I think they would be pretty floored by that generosity (in a good way). If there's still a surplus, maybe we could use it to cover a meal before/after the game (depending on game time).
I KNOW there are more worthy causes than sending a church youth group to a GT game; I don't want anyone to feel guilted into giving to this. I had no plans for this to be something for folks to give to, it just kind of turned into that, and I'm totally thankful for it. We already have enough covered that we are definitely going even if we don't get any more tickets paid for. If this is something you feel led/inclined to do, please PM me, and I will give you my address to mail a check (you can make it out to the church, and I will get it to the right place). If anyone just wants to give through paypal, I'm not totally sure about how that would work except to just send it to my paypal account and then I can turn around and give it to the church (PM me). The church doesn't have any way to give electronically - we haven't made it that far into modernity yet
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THANKS
@4shotB!
