Three winners will receive a $50 Wild Olive gift certificate… to spend any way your heart desires.

Entering is easy, and you’ll receive one entry for each of the following:

1. PIN IT. Pin your favorite Wild Olive tee to your Pinterest board and tell folks about this giveaway. Then leave us a comment here to let us know which one you chose, and you’ll receive one entry.

2. GRAB OUR BUTTON. Just grab the button below or from our sidebar and post it to your blog. That’s it! Then post a comment here to let us know, and you’ll receive one entry.

3. POST ABOUT WILD OLIVE ON FACEBOOK. Become a fan of our Facebook page. If you’re already a fan, just click the FB “Like” or “Share” button below this post. Then leave a comment here letting us know, and you’ll receive one entry.

And that’s it! You can enter one of three ways, or all three ways… just be sure you get entered before the contest ends on Monday, February 6th at midnight EST. Three entries will be selected at random to receive a $50 Wild Olive Gift Certificate. Winners will be selected at random from all entries and will and announced on Tuesday, February 7th.

And with a bunch of new tees in our store, we’re sure you’ll find something that will make you feel oh-so-loved.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

The Wild Olive Adoption Fundraising Program was born out of our passion for the orphan. The goal of this program is to help raise support to enable families to adopt a child. What better cause is there than helping a child that was once an orphan be adopted into a loving, Jesus-following, forever family?

Meet the Peacock Family, who is in the process of adopting a little girl from China…

Our Story:

We are a family of 5 with a desire to become a family of 6. We have 3 boys and want a daughter. We felt God’s call to adopt a little girl from China in April 2011. We have long desired to do something “more” for a child without a mommy or daddy. After praying and speaking with our boys about this desire, they were overjoyed to know we would be adopting a little girl to be their sister. Our best friends adopted a little girl from China July of 2010. She stole our heart! We are so grateful to have this opportunity and know that God will provide all our needs to complete this adoption. We are going to name her “Khloe” which means “blooming” and the seed that God has planted in our hearts will one day bloom in our home! Thank you God for our daughter, You know her and You will protect and keep her until she is with her forever family!

Eric, Amy, John Michael, Brayden, and Nathan Peacock

To follow the Peacock’s family blog, visit A Home For Khloe.

In an effort to help others who are doing just this, we have started an fundraising program for adopting families. We are excited to introduce you to some of the families who are participating in our program, and we will continue to post about other featured families in the weeks and months to come.

Meet the Gray family – now in the process of adopting a 1 year old boy from China…

Hi, we are the Gray family from Birmingham, Alabama! We are a family that has a heart for orphans but even more a heart for God. We started this journey of adoption completely dependent on the Lord to lead, guide, and provide for us. He has opened doors, changed hearts, and led us to our precious son when we least expected it.

We are so thankful for Love Without Boundaries and An Orphan’s Wish for giving much love and care to our son as he waits for us to arrive! Some of you may know him as “Xavier.” We currently have PA and hope to have our home study finished up by the end of the year.

This will be the only fundraiser we plan to do. We are trusting in the Lord to provide the rest and make His name great in the process!

We would love to have your prayers and support! To learn more about us or to find our family code visit us at A Journey to My Son!

Chad and Kristy Gray

Meet the Browns, a family in the process of adopting a little boy from Ghana…

Our family is adopting a little 4 year old boy from Ghana. His name is Noah! We are very excited that God would chose to add to our family through adoption again. We adopted twin daughters in 2010, which makes us a little nervous about the funds required for another adoption. But we are confident that our God is faithful and provides. Thank you for your support!

To visit the Brown Family’s blog, click here.

And these aren’t just organizations that we’ve heard about…these are organizations that we love and are very much involved with.

I (Colleen) had the privilege of going on a missions trip to Uganda with SixtyFeet in October. It was an incredible trip. We spent the majority of our time ministering to the children in prison, giving them attention, love and sharing the gospel.

If you are unfamiliar with the ministry of SixtyFeet, please visit their website. They are an incredible organization that brings hope and restoration to the wrongly imprisoned children of Uganda, in Jesus’ name.

Yep, you read it correctly…imprisoned children.

These are children who have been either rounded up by the police for being on the streets, or dropped off by a family member. SixtyFeet has a staff on the ground in Uganda who have a constant presence in the five prisons (spread throughout the country), bringing godly counseling, medical care, fellowship, and even a weekly worship service. They work to get sponsors for the children, in order to get them released and into a boarding school or a loving foster family. The sponsorship money provides boarding school fees, food and medical care.

The ultimate goal of SixtyFeet is to bring the gospel of Jesus to these children. And between now and eternity, the goal is to find a long-term, sustainable solution for these children. To give them hope, in an otherwise hopeless situation.

SixtyFeet has recently been blessed with an incredibly generous matching donation of $60,000, to be matched by people like you and me by the end of this year. Which means, if $60,000 can be raised by December 31st, SixtyFeet and their ministry will receive a total of $120,000!

And do you know what that means for them?

It means that they will be able to purchase a beautiful plot of land, overlooking Lake Victoria, and break ground for their first official children’s home…a place where children who have nowhere to go, can be signed out of the prison facilities and live like a family. This will be the first of several small homes, Lord willing, that will be built in order to raise up a “family” of responsible, educated, well-loved, Jesus-filled children, who once were lonely, hopeless and desperate.

Would you be willing to help?

They don’t have far to go to reach this goal, and every penny adds up.

This link will take you to their site where you can make a secure donation online.

Another easy way to help is to vote for SixtyFeet to win a grant on the Cultivate Wines site. They are giving away several thousand dollars worth of grants and the organization with the most votes wins $10,000!

You can vote one time each day, and the contest ends on December 31st, which means we only have a few more days left to vote. It takes less than a minute of your time and is worth every second in order to help these vulnerable children of Uganda. Set a reminder on your phone, put it on your calendar, tell good ol’ Siri to remind you…whatever you need to do…just don’t forget to go and vote every day until December 31st. And help spread the word, too! Share it on Facebook, post about it on your blog, or get all Twitterpated and Tweet about it.

At Wild Olive, we are proud and honored to partner with SixtyFeet. They are truly the hands and feet of Jesus, as they minister and bring hope to these precious and vulnerable children.

First of all, the bad news. Most of y’all didn’t win the giveaway. We can only choose one winner.

Now for the good news. Our Free Shipping plus 15% off Sale is still going strong… but ends soon.

Now for even more great news… we have a winner!

Congratulations to Jennifer who wrote:

Jennifer Parker says:
December 11, 2011 at 12:55 pm

I “Liked” the Beloved Burnout, Redeemed, Shine, and Rooted tees. Like the Christmas (God with us) ones too! Although really, I love all of them! Wish I could have one of each!

Email Amie at Amie@wildolivetees.com and she’ll get you hooked up!

Thanks to everyone for playing along, Colleen, Amie and I sure enjoyed hearing which tees you like best!

And Christmas is our very favorite time to do just that.

To enter to win a $200 shopping spree at Wild Olive, just visit our store, find your favorite tees, and ‘like’ them on FB.

Then come back to this post and tell us which ones you chose.

And if you’re a high-achiever, and want to get an extra entry, ‘share’ this post on FB by clicking the little ‘share’ link below, then leave comment here to let us know.

And that’s it. Entries accepted through midnight, December 11th.

Winner will be announced on Monday, December 12th. Plenty of time to place your order and have your new Wild Olive gear in time for Christmas merry-making.

Love,
The Wild Olive Gals