The Faith of a Child (& a few others)

On the way to mother's day out class -  3 yr old Anna: "What's Daddy doing today?"
Elise: "He's at work."
Anna: "What's Nana doing today?"
Elise: "Well, she's at her work, too."
Anna: "What's Papa doing today?
Elise: "Papa's talking to some people at a radio station about a very important project he's working on."
Anna: "We should pray for him."
Elise: "Okay." and she prays aloud that the meeting would go well and the radio people would catch the vision for the project and agree to help promote it.
Anna: "Amen!"

I know others were praying as well, but how can you lose with the faith of a child on your side? We've seen it before. Children just don't know any better than to believe their prayers will be answered. As we get older we tend to over think things or let our senses convince that faith just isn't reasonable. Children don't have that problem, and I've been amazed sometimes to watch adults pray about something, and nothing happened until their children prayed, too.

Anyway, the meeting went well. I didn't want to name the station until after I knew for sure they were on board with the project. The local Renda Broadcasting affiliate, KOMA, did catch the vision for the Portraits of Hope project and agreed to help promote it. I'm not sure at this point if the promos will run on their sister stations, KOKC, KMGL, and KRXO. But they will promote the premiere of the display. We're working on the timing and location for the premiere.

So, for the next few weeks, I will continue to photograph cancer survivors, and I'll be contacting area businesses and asking them to contribute.

With the radio station on board, the promotion for the project is significantly increased, as well as the doors to get the display into some key area businesses and malls, increasing the value of sponsoring the project. In other words, the businesses that sponsor the project will get significantly more recognition. Some on the promos on radio. They'll get even more recognition by the number of people who will see the display (where there will be a list of the sponsoring businesses) at the premiere and at the other locations where it will be displayed.

 There will be different levels of sponsorship. The goal is to raise enough support to more than cover the cost of the project. Any money received over the cost will be donated to Stephenson Cancer Research Center. (Costs include creating the display and the finished, framed images, and providing each survivor with a print of their portrait.)