Handing out Spiritual Bookmarks at Asian American Expo in San Mateo this weekend/KerChing

Thanks to the effort of Albert and Lucia, we now have 1000 beautiful bookmarks in three colorful designs. Albert has been working on this out of his busy schedule at work and at home. Lucia's timely help in art design is particularly generous for she has two young children and has to take of her dad's medical need plus they have a renovation project ongoing in the house. However we had fun exchanging ideas and it is a blessing to work together. If you remember the prototype presented just a week ago, then you can tell they did an amazing job from what they have finished today.

We are going to hand out these bookmarks at Asian American Expo in San Mateo over the weekend. It is going to be exciting and I am looking forward to it. However this weekend is more or less a pilot run for we really don't have too many bookmarks (see #2 below for reason) considering the huge attendance.

1. Please let me know if you want to join the fun and effort.

Sorry for the short notice. Lucia worked at the print shop till yesterday evening to finalize the design after many iterations and corrections. Before then, I was not sure if we can make it.

2. We need donations big and small.

Due to the fast turnaround time we needed this time, we had to pay a premium for these bookmarks. The final unit cost is close to $0.60 per bookmark, not cheap, and almost 3 times of what we originally anticipated. So please treat them with care. Furthermore, cost of this 1000 bookmarks will have to be paid with whatever the donation I can get. Since SJCCC has committed $2K covering a major part of our budget of $2.6K for three major events in the summer of 2007, we are still $600 short. Breakdown of our $2.6K budget is as follows.

6/16-17: Asian American Expo: $600 (after tax) bookmarks

7/21-22: Taiwanese & Chinese American Athletic Tournament: $500 bookmarks + $500 booth

8/11-12: Northern California Chinese Athletic Federation: $500 bookmarks + $500 booth

3. For the next batch, since we will have longer lead time, we should not have to pay the fast-turnaround premium as we did this time and hopefully the unit cost will be driven down significantly. However both cost and quality should be taken into account when working out with a vendor.

4. Ken suggests we hand out bookmarks to people leaving the expo ground, not those arriving. It is a good idea. See, your inputs are very helpful to us and we need your participation and prayer.

5. Expo info

Place:

San Mateo Expo Center

2495 S. Delaware St.

San Mateo, CA 94403

(There is a fee for parking.)

Time:

10am to 7pm

6/16 to 6/17

Thanks be to God.

Kerching

P.S. I will get finished bookmarks around 11am Saturday and plan to be there around noon.