In a message dated 3/21/00 12:41:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, NTexRR194
writes:
> Try Car washes, bakes sales, pie auctions, garage sales, etc. Then add up
all
> the funds and give Walmart a letter explaining the fundraisers and ask for
a
> matching donation. They'll match up to $1000. You can also see if anyone
in
> your church is involved with sales (like Mary Kay, House of LLoyd, etc).
> They often will do fundraisers and split their profit with you.
>
> That's how us "bigger" churches do it (we average about 300).
>
> Michael
>
Again, we just don't have the resources available. The Walmarts in this
area will not commit to anything because it is a church group, I have tried
this, K-marts and Targets are the same way. What seems to be misunderstood
is that yes that is how the big churches do it, but we are not a big church.
My old church was huge, the people there drove Mercedes and BMW and Cadillacs
and lived in single family houses and had the money for all of that kind of
stuff. The old church was beautiful and luxurious and could seat a thousand
easily, but we are not that big. We don't have the resources. It is not
just a matter of getting together for a thing like a bake sale or anything,
it is a matter of coordinating the resources, gathering the people together
making sure they can get off work to do it. Then we have to plan it and get
it on the church calendar, which should have already been thought up in
advance by at least a year. It is not as easy as you make it sound. We have
a lot of difficulties with these things as we have tried them before and it
never turned out very well.
I appreciate what you have said, but I just wanted to say where I am at.
Iron Mike
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