Home for the Holidays

So we slipped this little tidbit into the August Zamlife post, but in case you didn’t catch this one little/major announcement, here goes…

With a best friend getting married, multiple family/friend birthdays and 3 major holidays all falling within 6 weeks during this winter, we’ve decided to make the trek back “home” for the holidays!!

It seemed like the perfect opportunity to spend time with all of y’all- friends and family- that support us from so far away financially, emotionally, prayerfully. It’s our turn to say Zikomo (thank you!) with some fun hangouts and chats. Plus, you don’t exactly have to twist our arms to enjoy some Bardi & Woodell family Christmas traditions ;)

We are grateful that we have been able to save over this past year to make this trip work financially with that pricey airfare around the world.  Finances are still tight but we praise God for food, for a house, for the means to keep in touch with folks, and now the ability to spend the holidays back in the States with all of you fun people. Now that our roots are planted here, we don’t know how many more opportunities we’ll have to come back, so we will soak up every minute of this next trip!

During our time back, of course we’ll be enjoying some good coffee, Target, Chickfila, Christmas cookies, Milly in her Christmas PJs and sweater weather, but we’ll also be enjoying getting together with people to share more about our life here, inviting them to be a part of the incredible life-change happening through Clothed in Hope. We would love to meet with anyone who is interested in hearing some pretty incredible stories, and we would be beyond blessed if any of our friends and supporters would be interested in hosting a fundraising event for CiH for us to attend and share more. Clothed in Hope (aka our lives) runs solely on the involvement of our community, all of us joining together to stand for HOPE, for education, for empowerment, for restored dignity and value in the lives of women and their families in Zambia. Y’all are a crucial part of this whole adventure. And we are so grateful for you.

So check out our Bardi Tour Dates below (actually, we’re not that cool, just more like our travel schedule) and please email us - wyatt@clothedinhope.org - if you would like to meet up one-on-one, have us speak (fo’ free!) at your club, church, university, etc., or host a fundraising event for some much-needed operating expenses to enable us to continue our programs in 2015. We are prayerfully hopeful that our schedule will be jam packed, getting to tell people of the incredible opportunity to be part of something greater together. So let’s do this thing! (We may even come bearing some new CiH Holiday Collection goodies and maybe even a Spring ’15 sneak peek, so get ready!)

If you are within a 2-hour drive from any of these cities, we can make it work. Just email us and we’d love to chat deets with you!

November 18-28 Wedding festivities for some dear friends, family b-days and overcoming that monster that is Jet Lag

November 29-30 Cary, NC

December 1-6 CELEBRATING OUR FIRST ANNIVERSARY WOOHOO! (one month late, but surely still just as wonderful)

December 6-9 Cary, NC

December 9-11 Florence, SC

December 11-19 Columbia, SC (or Charleston, Greenville, Aiken, ATL, etc.)

December 19-21 Cary, NC

December 21-25 Florence, SC

December 25-30 Cary, NC

(Somewhere in the Carolinas for New Years)

Then flying back to Zamland on January 3!

We know it’ll be a whirlwind of a trip, but we can’t wait to see all of y’all and hug your necks!!

Love,

A&W

P.S. In case you were wondering just what the gloriousness of "Milly in her Christmas PJs" looks like, here you go. You're welcome: