Can you help?
Imagine how fun the auction could be this year if more of us would donate a few favorite things to help MCC. Like tickets to sporting events. Tools. Cookware. Patio items. Vehicles and boats. Or gift certificates to your favorite restaurants, movie theaters and local businesses.
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?
The goal of the Festival's 2010 Penny Power campaign is to feed 200 families! In 2009 Penny Power set a new festival record with donations of $8057!
- 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:
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