Livvy & I were the main speakers at the press conference. We thanked everyone that helped us!
October 16, 2014 was a super fun day! The Muhammad Ali Center invited us to have a press conference at the Ali Center to announce that we had hit our goal to raise the money we needed to build or upgrade the hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since it happened because of the generous donation from someone that heard us speak at the Humanitarian Awards at the Ali Center on September 27, 2014, they wanted to help us announce it - which was so super kind of them! We got to invite anyone we wanted to so of course, we invited the children that had helped us!
Chef Dodd from Sullivan came and spoke at the Press Conference
The Ali Center helped us to invite people like Chef Dodd from Sullivan and Denise Witt from Big Idea Media Group. The amazing thing is that four tv news channels came! I am going to include two of the channels here so you can see what they said about the conference. Here is the one that WHAS 11 put up. WDRB also put up the story on their webpage.
Livvy did a great job speaking! This is something neither of us loves but God sure has given us a lot of it to do for Him!
We made cake to eat to celebrate after the press conference
What we loved the most is that we got to invite the children that helped us. Some of them couldn't make it but Efrata, Katie, Blaise and his sisters Lyric and Kayia, Mia and Dr. Stucker's little girl were all there with us. My best friend, Isaac came and it felt like a party at the Ali Center! We made cake (of course) to eat afterwards. The Ali Center put it up on their webpage and we were so happy because not only are we done, we got to give God all the glory for this once again! It is really such a great feeling when you have done the thing that you knew God wanted you to do and you actually saw that HE IS THE ONE THAT DID IT! I can't really explain how happy this makes me and Livvy!
The quote says: "I always felt like I was born to do something for my people...some people have special resources inside, and when God blesses you to have more than others, you have a responsibility to use it right." Livvy & I agree!
Muhammad says, "I will float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!"
Wow! Where do we start with this? Back in June the Muhammad Ali Center had called us and asked us to be part of the Congo14 celebration. If you remember, we spoke at their press conference when they announced that Bruno Mars was going to be the singer they were hosting. The Ali Center asked us if we would come be a part of their annual Humanitarian Awards to be held on 10/27/14. We said yes because we have never seen something like that and it sounded like fun to go to a banquet. They also asked us to make a cake for their silent auction. This would be raffled off and 1/2 of what they got for the cake would go to our project and the other half would go to the Ali Center. We said yes for that too. Well, this week was the week of the concert and then yesterday, was the second annual Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards. Livvy and I found out that Kid President (Robbie Novak) was going to be there, so we asked if we could make him a special cake. We also wanted to make a cake for Muhammad Ali so that when we met him, we would be able to give him a special treat.
We can't even describe how amazing it was to meet Muhammad Ali in person!
This is the cake we made to give to Muhammad Ali on September 27, 2014
They had a special table just for our cakes!
Kid President was so much fun! He liked the cake!
As the week got closer and closer we got more nervous. It started to seem like it was going to be hard. My mom decided to see if we could go to Sullivan Bakery to decorate the cakes so that if we needed some help, Chef Richardson was there to help us. We were so glad we did this! She was so helpful with smoothing the big cake and for helping us get the piping right and not turning it brown with the colors mixing too much! Here are pictures of the cakes and the event. It was like nothing we have ever ever ever done before! If you click HERE you can watch our speech. (if you watch all the way to the end you can see a really amazing video of the project the Humanitarian of the Year did). Matt Lauer from the Today show was the MC for the evening. It was fun to meet him. He is the person that interviewed Dr. Brantley who lived to tell about having ebola! Dr. Brantley is a missionary for Samaritan's Purse so that was fun to have as a common connection.
Livvy is putting on the first layer of frosting for our auction cake
Chef Richardson was giving advice about the number 1 cake for Muhammad WAVE3 was filming it
I had the edible image on the cake and was starting the piping around it
Finishing the piping. I love the rainbow! Chef Richardson approves!
Such a great feeling to be done! I came up with the image and Big Idea Media Group helped make it on the computer!
We had a auction table for the silent auction and set up our display
When we got up to speak they had a picture of us up on the big screens
Here we are practicing in the afternoon before the banquet
