Dee has felt led to lower her honorarium and only require a minimal fee to help cover our expenses.  She really wants to be able to minister to as many women as possible and wants to minimize any barriers (cost, etc.) in being able to serve.  Dee used to charge a higher honorarium, but she is stepping out on faith to do something very different.

She would like events to cover her internal costs and traveling and housing expenses for her and her assistant. Here is a break-down for that:

A. Internal Costs – 800 to 1000 (She would ask 800)

Payment to person who puts together her complicated audio-visual presentation

Payment to book-keeper

Payment to me, who connects with the event before the event and travels with her to run the audio-visual and book-table

B. Traveling –800 or less (She would ask 800 or actual, whatever you prefer, Right now I travel with her and travel from Kearney, Ne. Dee flies from Green Bay, Wisconsin from May through October and from Kansas City from November through April. If you are near where she lives, the cost will obviously be less.)

C. Hotel – One or Two Nights for Two Rooms. Dee loves a good bed like in a Hampton Inn but doesn’t have to be a fancy hotel. (She would ask you to cover it or reimburse us if we book it, which we would be glad to do and would look for a reasonable hotel close to the event.)

Generally, therefore, you can cover everything for under 2,000 and sometimes under 1500.

Dee will make no money from these events and also contributes her preparation and travel time. However, here’s the catch! She wants to show a three to five minute video for one of the following two organizations and then take a free will offering from the women for that organization. Their offerings are tax deductible if they write a check. Dee is hoping and praying that when they see that all of this goes not to her but to these organizations that help women in enormous need that their hearts will be moved to give generously and that this will actually bring in far more than her old 3,000 honorarium did.

These are the two organizations. Both are non-profit and Dee makes nothing – and Dee would choose one for your group.

• Dee has a heart for prison ministries. She has seen enormous spiritual hunger in the prisons. They are so excited when we come, and there is not room for all. Women who cannot get in weep at the door. The following ministry in Texas is one Dee has worked with and believes in heartily. Right now she is writing a curriculum for women prisons with the leaders of this ministry. Obviously, women prisoners cannot buy these studyguides, so we are needing to raise money to print them and share the hope of the Gospel with them – to help them be set truly free. We are doing a video curriculum that includes testimonies from prisoners who have truly found Christ and are living very different redeemed lives. See this video at http://www.discipleshipunlimited.org
• International Justice Mission is helping free young girls, some as young as five, who have been sold into sex slavery. More women have died from this slavery in the last fifty years than all the men in all the wars in the last century. It isn’t reported because they are women. They die from having babies too young, from AIDS, and from being murdered for a lack of cooperation. It is an enormous Mafia like business. We must help. Below is a video shown at Urbana, in which Sara Groves speaks. http://vimeo.com/7267849

How we pray your committee will get excited about this and help us. Sometimes the committee can raise donations ahead of time to cover costs so that tickets can be kept low. Then women are more willing to contribute to an offering.