Do you know what Parker and our upcoming event have in common? Parker’s gifting was made possible by the success we experienced with our first annual Spring in the Valley Festival. Spring in the Valley 2021 raised $11,265.56! This blessing enabled us to gift not only Parker’s family, but Jaley’s family, too!
Spring in the Valley Festival is intended to create a fun-filled experience for the whole family. We invited the entire community to come enjoy live music, local boutique/vendor shopping, food trucks, live exotic animals, bouncy houses, face painting, and so much more! The outcome was better than we could have even imagined it. Not only were we able to help two families, but we got to hang out with some of our SGF kiddos and their families. Our Gifted Families are a testament that good conquers all. These kids and their families face devastating battles along the way, but their resilience gives us all inspiration while fueling our advocacy. Being able to see them enjoy life at an event surrounded by a community that has gathered to support them is an indescribable feeling.
Not only did we get to see some of our SGF families at SIV, but we witnessed the lingering effects from the impact SIV had on our community. There have been families and businesses to reach out to SGF because they either attended SIV or they heard about it – you know how much we love spreading and sharing our mission! It gets better – we met Russell Fountain and his family at SIV in 2021, and in March they became our first gifted family of 2022!