To donate an auction item, use our donation form.
Can’t afford a major gift donation? Use your creativity and connections to stretch your gift. For example, invite friends to match your contribution of $25 and pool your funds to buy an item together. If you’d like to purchase your item from a local business, ask the owner if they’d be willing to sell it to you at a discount; we’ll put the business name with yours as a co-donor.
Wishlist
- Children’s auction items: Small items for kids ages 12 and under. These may be dropped off on the morning of the festival. [Special note: Kids are invited to bring an item they would like to share with others. These good quality toys will be included in the children’s auction.]
- Volunteers to help setup and cleanup. Ability to tote hay bales is helpful but not required; we’ve got lighter tasks like setting up chairs, too. Report to the Willamette building at 9 a.m. or anytime thereafter on Friday.
- Baked goods: Quick and yeast breads, dinner rolls and zwieback, cookies, brownies, pretzels, peppernuts, pies, whoopie pies, homemade cereals . . . anything except cream-based and other refrigerated fillings. Pie tins should be available in churches in September. Consider inviting several friends to bake cookies, roll pretzels, or mix granola together: it’s a fun way to really help the festival.
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500 school kit bags (kit contents will be available at the festival). They’re not hard to make, but what a wonderful gift they are for needy children worldwide. For sewing instructions, go to
www.mcc.org/kits/school
Feed a family through Penny Power
Pennies a day. That's what it costs to provide emergency food supplies to people in need through Mennonite Central Committee. Just $35 buys enough rice, beans, oil, salt, and instant noodles to feed a family of six for a month.
How many familes can your congregation feed?
- Put a clean, empty soup can on your kitchen table and use it to collect pocket change.
- Give a quarter per person at the beginning of each meal at home, thanking God for the food on your table.
- Give a quarter each time you buy a snack or beverage.
- Save your grocery receipts and give 2.5 percent of the total to Penny Power.
- Set aside an extra 25 percent “tip” of your bill each time you go out to eat between now and the Festival.
Here are links to Penny Power resources:
- Stories and resources about food (including a garden craft project)
- Food resources for groups
- Penny Power theme song by Les Gustafson-Zook
- Inspirational DVD
- And more (tips for getting started, games, ideas, and resources)