2006-11-18 07:18:01 · 8 answers · asked by auntkim 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
a bake sale.We sent about 50 kids too camp at 80 bucks apeice.Do it at walmart,they match your profit.
2006-11-18 07:20:10 · answer #1 · answered by Erica B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our young adults group had a ton of great ones:
We had a dance night. A few members of our church were dance teachers, so they volunteered to spend the evening teaching other members and guests. We had swing, ballroom, linedancing and medieval. We bought supplies for our kitchen with the proceeds.
We also screened a Monty Python night, and brought appropriate food. I baked and decorated a "dead parrot" cake. (This is a UU church, by the way, so no one objected to watching "Life of Brian"!)
We regularly hosted "game nights" where people brought tons of board games asn played in rooms all over the church. We'd play for an hour or so, break for snacks our group provided, then everyone would head off with a different group to play something else.
We had fancy dress holiday parties as well, which we used as a fundraiser the year a member of our group was in the hospital and we wanted to help out his wife and baby.
I don't remember how much $$ each event brought in, but we did fairly well for the time and effort involved. It's a really great idea to capitalize on the talents of some members to benefit others. Our church did "Fantasy Auctions" as well. Members volunteer their skills or talents and other members bid. A dentist in the congregation offered two cleanings, my computer whiz friend offerend five nights of tutoring, I offered baked goods. We had one in the spring and one in the fall, and the were major fund raiser.
We hold a rummage sale every year, and the last three years have added a children's consignment sale.
Hope these help -- they are also wonderful ways for generations to connect.
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2006-11-18 07:34:45 · answer #2 · answered by Chickyn in a Handbasket 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lady at church was going through chemo and during this time, her husband had a heart attack and passed away.
The red tape of our own governmental system made it such that she would receive no social security for three months. His pension payments stopped with his death.
Our sunday school classes took up a home missions offering the first sunday of each of these three months and a fourth month for good measure.
Not sure how much was raised, but its not secret, I could ask if it mattered to me (which it does not).
She is on her own now and I am very thankful that we have a church body that will take care of someone without red tape and paperwork while they starve and lose the roof over their heads.
2006-11-18 07:24:15 · answer #3 · answered by cindy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We made sub sandwiches and sold them for like $5.00. It was a small church, but we made over $650.
2006-11-18 07:20:46 · answer #4 · answered by light_pierces_darkness 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a combination flea market and cookout. we did quite well but I have no way of knowing the actual dollar amount.
2006-11-18 07:32:09 · answer #5 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i sell cake and chocolate 80chocolates and 100 cakes i got $900.
2006-11-18 07:21:47 · answer #6 · answered by shorty 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lesbian appreciation night - they won't tell us how much the event brought in
2006-11-18 07:21:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't go to church.
2006-11-18 07:22:15 · answer #8 · answered by 200 IQ 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋