Bash For Max

The Bash for Max Benefit held on May 21^st  was a huge success.  It was an evening full of great food, music and fun from all involved and a warm spirit of help and healing permeated the event. We feel so blessed to have such a great community surrounding us and letting us know that we are not alone in this journey

The night consisted of an incredible silent auction with over 100 donations from individuals and businesses in our community, a great dinner donated by King’s Manor Senior Living Community in Tacoma, awesome cupcakes made by Stacy Gibson of Graham & Graham Eldercare and live music by Doug Deems & friends.  The evening was a huge success with over $15,000 raised after the matching grant from Thrivent Financial. The great turnout and outpouring of support, prayers, and good wishes from all was a true blessing to our family!

We would like to send out some special thank you’s to those who made the event possible.  Karen Wright had the idea to do something to bless Max, after organizing several other events, “A Bash for Max” was born.  She put in countless hours organizing the location, volunteers, selling tickets, acquiring auction items, and planning the whole night!  Thank you so much Karen, words cannot express our gratitude!  Nicole Coit, the Administrator of King’s Manor, did as much work and orchestrated everything behind the scenes.  Thank you so much Nicole for everything and to all the King’s Manor staff who played a huge role in the success of the night.  To Kristi, Sheri, Theresa, Natalie & Oscar, thank you so much for donating all of your time & to help to make everything run so smoothly!  There were so many people that helped with the planning, setting up, serving, parking attendants, cooking, decorating, praying, selling tickets, fundraising, acquiring auction items, filling the seats, cashiering, cleaning up & I am sure doing a lot of other things.  To everyone that helped in any way…THANK YOU! 

A sincere and heartfelt thank you goes out to all those volunteers, friends, family, colleagues, and businesses who attended and participated to make the evening such a special event and celebration!  Again we couldn’t have made it through all this without all the support, prayers and help from each and everyone of you.  Thank you for rallying around Max and our family to help us through the last 6 months and your continued support for the big plans that God has in store for Max’s future.