Ur Turn 2 Earn
The National Gathering of American Baptist Youth
Estes Park Center, YMCA of the Rockies
Estes Park, Colorado
July 5 – 11, 2008
- Pink flamingo removal: places a couple of pink flamingos on your congregation’s lawns with a note stating “For the price of $____ we will remove your pink flamingos.” You could also use flowers, plastic gnomes etc.
- Chili sale: take orders for chili and make enough plus some to sell to your congregation.
- Flea market: sell spaces to the community in your parking lot (or open space around your church) to place tables.
- Dessert auction
- Sports tournament: be sure to have sports for all ages (i.e. t-ball for preschoolers and slam dunk for older kids or adults), take pledges for the number of hits, baskets, tosses, shots, etc. a person or team makes.
- Youth choir concert: if you have a youth choir or praise team: have a concert one evening and take a freewill offering (be sure to invite friends and family from outside the church)
- Talent show: have a talent show to show off the church/ community’s talent; have a low cost to enter
- Sweets for a sweet: take orders and deliver candies or sweets for someone (i.e. Joe Smith orders a candy to be sent to his wife at work)
- Penny wars: each Sunday school class has a jug to put pennies in. For one penny they get a point, for each nickel they loose 5, dime they loose 10, a dollar they loose 100 etc. Trick is to put all your pennies in your jar and other change and bills in other classes. The winning class receives a cook out, ice cream, award etc.
- Help the community: donations for babysitting, yard work, painting, dog-walking, running errands for elderly or stay at home moms who cannot get out.
- “-THON’s” with pledges: walk-a-thon, dance-a-thon, bike-a-thon, starve-a-thon, move-a-thon, rake-a-thon (for those wonderful leaves in the fall) etc
- Pick me up’s Sunday mornings: if your church does not do a coffee hour; sell donuts and coffee after the service or before Sunday school
- Family game night
- Movie night: (make sure to get permission from production agency to have a public showing) Do not think you can sell tickets to the movie, but you can sell snacks or a chair (otherwise they sit on the floor).
- Good ol’ fashion auction: get church members to donate things for an auction
- Spare change: give church members or each family a box, fish bowl, can, or bottle, etc. to put their spare change in at home and bring back.
- Special offering: designate a special offering during a worship service, possibly on your youth Sunday, if you have one.
- Pie the staff: with staff’s involvement (or other church members) have congregation buy a pie (pie pan with whipped cream only (cheaper and easier to make)) to pie the church staff.
- Craft sale
- Get out of jail: build a “jail” using 2x4s, have congregation pay to put someone in “jail.” To get out of jail they have to raise double the money by asking people to help them. This will work best at your church cook-out, flee markets, all day events
- Stock certificates: sell stock certificates to the congregation or family for your youth group. For example, $5/share/month. At end of term hold a stock holders cook out.
- Church cook book: have each member submit their favorite or special recipe, bind them together, and sell a church cook book. Could also make a children’s cookbook with great food ideas for kids
- Treat the dog: at local dollar stores find containers or jars to put the treats in. At your local grocery store by a big bag or box of dog treats. Put the treats in a plastic baggy to keep fresh inside containers. You could end up spending $2-3 per container but could sell it for $10.
- Gas attendant: if your state does not have full service gas stations. Ask a local gas station if you could pump people’s gas for a day (be sure to wash their windows)
- Reverse raffle: at a church event give everyone a raffle ticket for free. Tell them if they do not want the prize they must sell their ticket. The prizes could be, singing a song in front of everyone, having their face painted by a child, wearing a funny costume, etc.
- “No dinner dinner:” make invitation to this glamorous over the top event; a big name performer, seven course meal, famous guest attendee etc. Send out invitations asking people to buy tickets. Catch is there actually is no event.
- Men’s beauty pageant: a beauty pageant minus the women:
- Goat insurance: send flyers to your congregation letting them know you are auctioning off a goat (or pig or bull) and they can enter three names for $10 to win the goat. Alert those names that they have been entered to win a goat, that for $10, they can buy “goat insurance” to protect themselves. When all is said and done or things die down the goat goes home to his owner.
- Bakeless bake sale: send a letter to your congregation telling them they are invited to NOT bake, NOT find a recipe, NOT shop for ingredients, NOT mix batters, NOT cook, NOT wash dishes, and NOT clean their kitchen. However, they can write you a check for $__.__ instead to stay home and enjoy the day!
- Wrap a gift: during Christmas time have a gift wrapping event where members can bring their Christmas gifts, drop them off, and come back later with them wrapped and ready to go.
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