Dear Friend,

Whether you were with us in person or celebrated from afar, we are deeply grateful for the many ways you participated in our West Michigan Celebration of Stories events!

Take a look at some of the highlights below— and if you weren’t able to attend, don’t worry! You can still enjoy recordings of the speakers and dancers below.

• We connected with over 700 people across the 3 events (Holland, Kalamazoo, and Grand Rapids), and 43% of you were brand new to ASJ!
• We celebrated all of the gifts Honduras has to offer through the theme of "Love, Honduras". We ate a LOT of good Honduran food, we watched a video of folkloric dancers from Nueva Suyapa filmed at our office in Tegucigalpa (watch it here), and we also watched two live folkloric dances performed at the event (watch them here). 
• Thanks to your generosity, we raised almost $170,000 towards our $200,000 goal - all of which will be matched! If you would like to help us get the rest of the way towards our goal, there is still time to give!
  

Recordings

You can watch the keynote talks from Kurt Ver Beek and Sara Pineda - or, feel free to forward on to a friend that you wish had been there to hear them!

Pictures

Here are some highlights from our Celebration of Stories in Holland, Kalamazoo, and Grand Rapids.