Phew! How much fun was Tuesday?! If you were able to join us for our 25th Anniversary Celebration of Stories lunch or dinner: thank you! Our team (though tired) is still feeling the excitement from all of the amazing conversations, the delicious food, the music, and the community. If you weren't able to join us: we missed you and wanted to include you in this recap!

Though I have so many favorite moments from Tuesday, here are some that I'm still thinking about today:

• The words of ASJ co-founder Carlos Hernandez's son, coming to us across the years and the miles, reminding us that even in the face of injustice we just have to "keep going forward".
• Hearing the updates from ASJ co-founder, Kurt Verbeek, about how ASJ's efforts ensured that 2 million public school kids in Honduras got 187 days of school and 170 days of school lunch last year.
• Sending only 2.5 bags of trash to the landfill across both of our events (serving more than 500 people) thanks to our volunteers and Neland Ave Church. The rest was recycled or composted!
• 360 of us singing Happy Birthday to ASJ-US to celebrate 25 years of doing justice in Honduras!
• Together, raising more than $136,000 (and counting)!

That's right, you read that last one correctly.

Because of your generosity, we raised more than $136,000 together - meaning that we met our $100,000 match and will be sending at least $236,000 to ASJ-Honduras to support and advance our shared work for justice!

For context, this is enough to fund almost 50% of our education program work for an entire year. Incredible!

Even though you all obliterated our goal, we are still accepting donations for this event. If you weren't able to join us or know someone else who would love to support the work of ASJ, you can click the button below to help add to our total. What do you think - can we send $250,000 to Honduras?