Two things. Wow have things changed since Sam passed away. I remember one of
the last things he did was endow the library at the Baptist U. in MO. for
over $1 million. I don't think his heirs have the same moral committment he
did. Still, we haven't had that much difficulty getting the local WalMart to
throw in w/ church groups. Sounds like somebody at your local WM has a
difficulty w/ corp. policy re: faith-based charitable groups. Perhaps you'd
like to contact Bentonville?
The other: sometimes it's a matter of getting creative in your fundraising.
Sometimes it's a matter of ignoring the "we never did it that way before"
types. Hold a trash-a-thon: your OP boys get pledges by the lb. from people
for how much trash they can pick up in that neighborhood. You wouldn't need
to run that thru any scheduling committee would you? Just get pastoral
approval and an open Sat.
Anybody else got some creative suggestions to help out this fellow cmdr?
--Allen
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:09:16 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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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