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Congregational Fund-raising Ideas
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Activities on this page:
Zimbabwe bottlecap pins
Well/water pumps |
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Income for a day
Halloween
activity |
Check out these other activities!
The Empty Bowl
(any time)
The Hunger
Tree (any time/Nov-Dec)
The
Quarterback Club (during NFL/football season) |
Key Peninsula Lutheran Church in Home,
WA, ordered some hand-painted Zimbabwe bottle cap pins from the ELCA World Hunger Appeal. Members
bought and wore the pins and
even gave them as gifts to family and friends. The
congregation sent the profits to the World Hunger Appeal.
To order hand-painted bottlecap pins
from Zimbabwe: Contact the
World Hunger Appeal office - by phone, 800.638.3522, ext. 2764
or e-mail,
hunger@elca.org. A
$2 per pin donation is requested to cover costs. (Availability
subject to conditions in that country and supply in the Chicago
office.) |
In the late spring of 2000, the hunger
committee of Trinity Lutheran Church, Roanoke, Va., began a
project in which they set up a well, made by a member, in their
narthex to receive money for the ELCA World Hunger Appeal. Signs
posted on the well read: “Where there’s a well, there’s a way;
water is life; wishes can come true; make a wish—sow the seed;
make a wish—water the fields.” A note in the bulletin on the
Sunday the well appeared explained: “In parts of Africa, people
must carry water to water their fields of food. The ELCA World
Hunger Appeal is helping to solve this problem. For $30 it can
send equipment to make wells to irrigate their fields. Our goal
is to receive money in our well to supply Africa with 17 wells.
This will total $510.”
The bulletin also included a real-life
ELCA World Hunger story that told about water pumps being used
in West Africa. Two committee members dressed up as the biblical
“women at the well” and stood at the well as members exited.
Articles about the fund-raising project were also placed in the
newsletter. They spoke about the difficulties in obtaining water
in Africa for raising crops and for personal consumption. The
well was displayed for few months, and members were encouraged
to put in it “loose change, bills or checks." |
Here’s an idea from Easter Lutheran,
Eagan, Minn.: The congregation’s leadership sent members a
letter about its goal for the year for its annual “Walking with
the Hungry and Homeless Emphasis.” The letter included the
suggestion that members give the equivalent of their income for
a day.
The “audacious” goal challenged
members to collect more than the previous year - $16,000 to
$20,000 and 2,500 pounds of food. “This seemed too much to hope
for, considering that Easter has already responded with over
$7,000 for the victims of Sept. 11,” one of Easter’s pastors,
Paul Harris, wrote. However, Harris reported that “we were
greatly helped by a gift of $7,000 by a person who responded to
the letter challenging the gift of a day's income.”
Easter expected to exceed its goal. As
of mid-December 2001, 2,499 pounds of food had been given and
over $19,000 contributed. Easter gives 80 percent of the cash
donations to the ELCA World Hunger Appeal, 10 percent to the
city’s Community Action Council, and 10 percent to ELCA World
Hunger Appeal partner Bread for the World. |
Christ the Redeemer, Brecksville,
Ohio, distributed simple bulletin inserts with the text below to
members prior to Halloween to encourage them to think about how
much they spend on Halloween candy vs. giving money to end
hunger.
NOTE: Figures are based on information
from the
National Confectioners Association and and the
United States Census Bureau.)
Haunting Hunger
Trick or treating is right around the
corner. Have you bought your candy yet? If you have,
please think about a couple of figures. In recent years,
Americans have spent over $2
billion on a weekend supply of
candy. With around half of all Americans participating,
this means that the average person spent over $13 on Halloween
candy, an average of almost $7 for every American.
Now contrast this figure with the ELCA
World Hunger Appeal. Every ELCA member gives an average of
just over $3 to the World Hunger Appeal over the course of the
year. This means that the average Lutheran spends more on
Halloween candy for one weekend than they contribute to the
World Hunger Appeal all year.
Help us turn these numbers around.
Save all of your receipts for the candy you purchase, and take
the total you spent and give the same amount plus at least $1.00
to the World Hunger Appeal on All Saints Sunday. It is a very
simple yet symbolic gesture to say that, while we certainly
enjoy the fun of trick or treats, we care even more about
helping the hungry.
This Halloween, join us in haunting
hunger and helping those in need.
Don't just trick or treat! Help others
eat!
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