GOAT Blog

We have exciting news here at the GOAT offices. One of our closest friends Bill Mitchell has moved his company, Billiam Jeans, into the spare room in our offices! As many of you may know, Billiam Jeans is an organization aimed at fighting sex trafficking. How do they do this? By making awesome pairs of jeans and donating a portion of their profit. Bill’s company was based out of his parents’ basement. He felt like he needed a space of his own, and since we had the spare room here in our offices, we wanted to be able to open the space up for him to use. We’re so excited to see what’s next for Billiam Jeans and we can’t wait to see what comes out of our offices!

Check out Bill’s website and blog to read more of his story and to find out how you can get involved:

http://blog.billiamjeans.com/

On Saturday, October 15th, we hosted our 3rd annual Cornhole Tournament at Cleveland Park. The proceeds from our event will help provide funding for our summer programs, which are coming up quickly! Thirty teams faced off against each other this year in the double-elimination tournament, hoping to win awesome prizes and of course, bragging rights. Prizes were provided by our awesome friends at Mountain Khakis, Smith, and Hydroflask. We also gave away free passes for the Mountain Goat and a cornhole set. After a few hours of intense face offs, it came down to the Carpenters, last year’s runners up, and Steve and Rebecca Yates, who came all the way from Pennsylvania for our tournament and were our third place finishers last years. (We take our cornhole seriously here at GOAT). In the end, the Carpenters won the tournament and bragging rights for a year. Thanks to everyone who came out! We had so much fun and we can’t wait to see how God uses your generosity to reach students in Greenville this summer.

There’s no way we could not post this photo. I mean, it’s got all the neccesities; GOAT sticker, jorts, axe.

Thanks so much for the shoutout, Jordan! Way to sport that GOAT sticker in style!

Need a GOAT sticker? Give us a shout on our facebook page, or twitter and we’ll put on in the mail!

AU Missions Fair

On November 2^nd we headed to Anderson University for their annual Ministry and Missions Fair. Ministries from all over South Carolina, North Carolina, and various other states came to AU to provide an outlet for students to learn more about what they do and find out how they can get involved. We got to be a part of it this year! We had a lot of students come by and talk to Joey about what we do here at Goat. We gave out info about volunteering as well as internships and met a lot of interested students. We’re really excited that we got to get the word out about Goat in Anderson and we hope that we get to see a lot of new faces in the offices and on our trips with us soon!

Another GOAT sighting, this time all the way from Dublin, Ireland!

Thanks Mary Grace!

The bike shop is now finished! Hopefully you saw the video update on September 20th where Joey showed us around the bike shop and told us what was coming our way. If not, go check that out now and come back to this post. (We mean it. Go now).

Back then it was just an empty room and now we’ve gotten all the bikes in, assembled, and up in the shop! Check out these pictures for your personal tour of our bike shop.

On September 29th we had our first ever Goat banquet! We had an awesome turn out and were so excited to see our family and friends there to support us. For the past month we have been raising money to build a climbing gym in our offices. We had a very generous angel donor agree to match dollar for dollar of what we raised. We set a fundraising goal of $30,000 and got to work getting the word out there. September 29th was our last day to raise the money that we needed for our angel donor to match. Originally the banquet was planned as a way to not only thank all of our friends and family for their generous support over this past year but was also a way for us to continue to get the word out about the climbing gym and give people an opportunity to donate. But the banquet instead turned into one big celebration! We not only raised the $30,000 that we needed before the 29th, but we also raised more money than our original goal. As of today, we have raised $33,472! At the banquet, Ryan shared some vision with us for what’s coming up in the future and thanked everyone there who came to support us. We had awesome food, awesome friends, and an awesome time. Thank you guys so much for all of your support! We’re so excited to see what’s next as we start working on our climbing gym! Check out these pictures from the night and make sure to check back later to see progress on the gym!

Link: We made it!!!
Thank you thank you thank you from the bottom of our hearts here at GOAT! We’re completely overwhelmed right now (and having a dance party in the HQ)

We love each one of you! Thanks so much!

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