Camping Out For Canned Goods

For those of you who know Scott, you know that he likes to get attention when he is working for a cause...so he camped out for 72 hours, 15 feet in the air to raise awareness and money for Hope Family Ministries (a non-profit organization that offers free biblical counseling) and Canned Goods for the Salvation Army.  He started at 10 p.m. on November 19th and his feet did not touch the ground until November 22nd at 10 p.m.  While it got extremely cold, he managed fairly well.  He had plenty of people taking care of him, which helped me out a whole lot!  

Saturday morning Hannah and I passed out flyers at Kroger to tell people what was going on.  We got a pretty good response, mainly in canned goods from the flyers!  After we passed out the flyers we went by to see Scott.  Hannah decided to entertain the cars passing by us. 

The next two pictures are of Scott's home for 3 days!  I took these pics Saturday, so at this point he had already taken the tent down in preparation of coming down.  The Armada parked next to the "tower" is where people placed their canned good donations.  

Thankfully a guy from our church had this nice camo hunting outfit (can you tell I don't hunt, nor do I know anyone who does?!) which kept him warm!  

Below is a picture of the canned goods collected through Saturday morning.  There are a lot that are in the floor board under the seats, and a bunch more were brought later that were left at Kroger as a donation.

All in all this event turned out very well!  It was somewhat of a last minute event, however, it came together very well!  Overall they raised an Armada full of canned goods and about $6,000 cash.  I am very proud of Scott, even more so after climbing up on that tower and getting nauseated from the thing being so shaky (it was on an uneven surface).  I don't know how he did it, but he managed!  Who knows what he will be camping out for next, but I am sure this won't be his last one!