Woodland Baptist Craft Bazaar TODAY 10/18 from 9-1 809 Pope Lick

Livvy & I are are SO EXCITED to announce that we now have The Chick-fil-a cow coming to the Bazaar, Cheezy the Clown, several crafters - including our own Grandma, some great vendors and Livvy's American Heritage Girls group!  WE are selling concessions and now there are some AMAZING RAFFLE BASKETS!  The tickets are $1 each or 6 tickets for $5.  We have a basket from Mark's Feed Store, 4 certificates from Safari Versatile Services for pest control and termite inspections, a shopping cart cover from Gram (hers are super nice and so great for this time of year for a Christmas present for someone that just had a baby!) Avon gift basket of My Little Pony items and many other items that I haven't even seen yet but I am told are super nice!

If you still wish you had gotten a table to sell things or tell about your business we still have some great slots open!  The Woodland Baptist Church youth group students are going to do a car wash and have things to sell also.

We sure hope you will stop by to see us and give hugs because we are still so excited about having gone past our goal!  We are hoping that the sale of the concessions and raffle will help us get some medical equipment for the hospital now!

Here's the info:

Gabe The Cake Man & Livvy Raised $35,000 to build a Hospital in the Congo Through Samaritan's Purse!!

Psalm 34: 3 says, "O Magnify the Lord with me; Let us PRAISE His name together!"

This is our silent auction cake.  A $500 donation was made to the Ali Center for it.

In our last post, we were dying to tell everyone the amazing thing that God did for us at the 2014 Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards but we wanted to wait until you could all see it on our donations page!  A little while after Livvy and I gave our speech at the awards ceremony, Mr. Lessare, the CEO of the Ali Center came up to our dad and told us that there was a person in the audience that heard our speech who was so moved by our project and our words, they wanted to make a donation to our project.  They told Mr. Lessare that whatever we did not raise from the auction of our cake, they would donate to get us to $35,000!! (We had already raised $22,173 up to that point).  We were so excited we could hardly stand it! We didn't know whether to laugh, cry, scream, run around dancing...so we did what we have done every other time something great happens (or bad happens for that matter).  We PRAYED!  My mom, dad, Livvy and I prayed and thanked the LORD for doing this great thing for us!  To some people, they might call this a coincidence.  Someone once said, "All I know is that when I pray, coincidences happen a lot more often"!  We KNOW this was no coincidence!  GOD let that person be in the audience, hear about our project and have a kind and caring heart to help us finish it!   We really wanted to meet this person but he wanted to remain anonymous so we have been praying for him to be richly blessed because of his generosity.  Yesterday he made the donation and it was SO MUCH FUN to be able to go to youth group last night and tell everyone all about it!  They had prayed for me and Livvy last week and they all wanted to hear how it went.  When we told them that we are now OVER 100% they clapped!

Livvy and I made 50 cupcakes in about an hour to bring to the youth group to celebrate with!

We are now over $35,000...and we are going to keep going because we still have our craft bazaar coming up on October 18 from 9-2 at the Woodland Baptist Church.  We are now going to have a PARTY!  We will be giving away (can you guess?)  FREE CUPCAKES!  So come join us and celebrate this wonderful thing that God has done for us!  We can't wait to see what will happen with this hospital, clinic or upgrades that can now go forward in the Democratic Republic of Congo!

This reminded us of doing camp cupcakes!  The students loved them!

Livvy & Gabe The Cake Man meet Muhammad Ali at the Ali Humanitarian Awards

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

Both Livvy and I spoke to about 750 people!

Gabe The Cake Man & Livvy Have Gone Over $20,000!

Today was an amazing day!  The donations from the children that were at summer camp went into our fundraising account with Samaritan's Purse and we have now officially gone over $20,000!  GOD IS DOING BIG THINGS!  We give Him all the glory and praise because as Livvy says all the time, "We couldn't be doing any of this without God's help!"  Thank you to everyone that has donated and helped us!  We can't wait until we get to say that we have raised all the money...so keep donating!  It's working!

We have officially gone over $20,000!!!

Gabe The Cake Man vs. Wild...Bear Grylls-style explanation of our hospital building Project filmed at Kosair Children's Hospital

Hey Everybody,
Here it is...our latest video and was it ever fun to make!  We filmed it at Kosair Children's Hospital and they helped us film and edit it!  The children in the waiting room scene are all children that have helped us with our project!  Thank you, Dr. Stucker for helping us ask if we could film it at Kosair!  You are an awesome pediatrician!  (She was even written up in the Samaritan's Purse Bible for saving a baby's life while she was on a mission trip with them once!)  Thank you, everyone that has been going out of your way to help!  We really appreciate it!

Thank you, Kurt and Mrs. Witt from Big Idea Media Group for making the cover photo!

Click HERE to watch the video!

Gabe The Cake Man and Livvy give a pep talk to the Bellarmine 2014 GSP students

So this video took us many, many, many tries...like maybe 20 tries!  But we finally got it right and once we put it up on youtube, we sent our brother, Isaac the link.  Isaac is at Governor's Scholar Program right now and he was going to try to show it to all the GSP students at their last conference together, hoping that all the students would be a Number 1 Team Member and that our story would inspire them to do big things too.  However, as it turns out, GSP does not allow anyone to talk about charity fundraising like this because almost everyone there is involved with some sort of fundraising or whatever, so it would be about 350 students all talking about their favorite charity.  We do not know why God does not want us to show it to all of them after we made it, but we are trusting that God will use it anyway and that there is some other reason that we took all the time to make it.  

PS:  Tonight is our last night of camp.  After we are all done, we will post pictures and videos.  We will try to put up some of the voice recording that we have done of the children praying for our project because that has been pretty cool too!  

Here's a preview of the camp cupcakes for this week!

Swedish Chef (Sweet-ish Chef) goes to Southeast Christian Church Summer Camp

Livvy and I get to do something super exciting!  We are going to be the "summer missionaries" for Southeast Christian Church's elementary summer camps!  We decided to make a little "trailer video" to give the kids a clue about who will be there (us).  We impersonated the Swedish Chef but we called it the "Sweet-ish Chef".  We would really appreciate your prayers!  Pray that we glorify God and that we inspire the children to try to do BIG THINGS for God!  Pray that the Lord gives us donations through this as well...Here it is:

Muhammad Ali Center Congo14, Bruno Mars, Gabe The Cake Man & Livvy-Bug Will Make a Great TEAM

Two weeks ago we had an amazing turn of events in our project!  It hasn't really gotten us many new donations, but we got to do some super cool things!  First, we were called by the Food Network Channel to see if we wanted to try out for a kid cooking challenge contest show.  (We said, "No".)  This was an honor for us to realize that they saw our WAVE3 news spot from when we made Abbey's wedding cake, but the opportunity didn't really seem to fit with our project and we don't really want to do things for fame.  We are trying really hard to just keep doing what we are doing so that God gets all the glory.

But on that SAME DAY, we were called by the Muhammad Ali Center because they wanted to ask us if we wanted to be a part of their upcoming press release they were having to tell the press about who their A-List singer is going to be in September for their Congo14 event. (It is Bruno Mars) It was pretty cool how this is working out that the Muhammad Ali Center is going to be doing this event in Louisville and the Congo at the same time to celebrate the anniversary of when Muhammad Ali fought George Forman in Zaire (which is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) 40 years ago, and we are trying to get enough money to build a hospital there!  The Ali Center wanted to know if we would speak at the Press Conference and tell about what we are doing to help the people in the Congo!  We said, "Yes", not because we wanted to speak, that was actually super scary, but because it seems like we have some shared goals. WDRB News included us just a tiny bit in their story about the press conference on the news that night.  You can see that here:  WDRB News Clip

In the end, it was scary but also kind-of fun!  We got to tour the Ali Center for free and we got to go back to Sullivan University to learn two more super cool things!  Chef Richardson taught us how to print out an edible image (which our wonderful friend, actually my mom's best friend, Denise who owns Big Idea Media Group, made for us with the Congo14 logo and an image of the Rumble in the Jungle on it) and put it on a cake.  We also learned how to do rainbow piping around the cake!  Here is a video of us learning this stuff at Sullivan: Click Here.

Here are a few pictures of the cake:

We gave our speeches but they were not on the news or anything.  Many of the people at the press conference came up and talked to us after it was over and took our card with the link to our blog, but nothing has really come from that.  My dad thinks this is because God wants to prove that it is only HIM doing this project with us!  God is using children like us to bring in the donations so God wants to show He can do this big thing through the least likely source.  Livvy & I think this is true.  So far, it is really children doing their 1% or people donating their 1% that have gotten us to 37%!  Anyway, if you would like to see our speeches, click this and go to the 8:34 minute mark.  We are super excited that the Ali Center people have told us we can come to the Congo14 celebration and even meet the ambassador of the Congo and Bruno Mars.  We are hoping this means we will meet Muhammad Ali too.  :)  

Thanks for reading about it and most of all, keep praying for us!  (And by the way, everyone really seemed to like the cake.  We had made it a surprise by making the cake batter into a tie-dye pattern with red, blue, purple and black!)

Blaise-the-Batman-Boy-Hero and Sweet Efrata are Helping Build The Hospital

Meet our little friend, Blaise...we think he is about the cutest child on the planet!  Blaise just turned 5 and he loves all things related to Batman!  We think he is a SUPER HERO because he asked his family and friends to just give donations to the hospital project instead of getting him presents.  What five year old does this???  Blaise is pretty special because he was born deaf but he has a cochlear implant and can hear now.  His family adopted a little boy from another country with the same problem and he had not heard anything for the first 4 years of his life.  Thankfully, they got him a cochlear implant too and he has been hearing for a year.  What a wonderful family Blaise has!  Anyway, we decided to to make a Batman cake for Blaise because he is definitely on our #1 team for his unselfish ways!  His efforts made $170. in donations!

 Now meet our friend Efrata.  She used to live in Ethiopia but has been adopted and lives here in the United States.  She heard Livvy & I talk at the Block at Southeast Christian Church and she also decided to ask for donations to the project instead of birthday presents!  She just turned 12 and was so sweet and excited to be a  part of the Number 1 Team!  She didn't want a cake so we gave her one of our aprons.  Her efforts raised $345!  We feel so incredibly blessed to become friends with such amazing children!

Teen bakes cakes to help build hospital in the Congo - wave3.com-Louisville News, Weather & Sports

Abbey & Taylor living happily ever after

Teen bakes cakes to help build hospital in the Congo - wave3.com-Louisville News, Weather & Sports



For any of you that missed the Wave 3 story about me and Livvy, you can still see it on their website.  :)

Sullivan University is on the NUMBER 1 TEAM!

Chef Dodd has been so nice to me and Livvy!  My mom called him to ask his advice on how I should work on Abbey's (our sister's) wedding cake and he said that we could come to Sullivan University and make her cake there!  About 4 or 5 weeks ago we went and met with Chef Richardson, Chef Lamb and Chef Dodd to let Abbey show us what she wants for her cake.

Yesterday, Livvy and I went to Sullivan and started making the cake.  It was so fun to be at Sullivan!  I really want to go there when I grow up!  There were so many cool things to work with and they showed us some great tricks of how to make our cakes better!  

The oven at Sullivan is the coolest oven!  It has 6 racks that rotate around.  I really loved using it!  The cakes came out perfect!

Today we got to frost the cakes, put the fondant on and then we started the process of stenciling.  The humidity was really high today so we are going to work on that more tomorrow.  One of the most amazing things about today was that WAVE 3 News was there and they filmed us working with the chefs!  This will be on tonight at 6pm.  We will try to put up the news clip when it is available.  We are so grateful that the Lord is giving us so many wonderful opportunities to tell people about the project!  We are also so grateful to Chef Dodd at Sullivan for giving us this privilege of working on the cake there!