What About Church Fundraisers?
Cup of Dunkin’, Quarter Pounder Meal, or Bag of Halloween Candy
If you were to buy one of those things every week on top of the things you usually buy each week for an entire year would it give your wallet a noticeable pinch? No one is going to ask you in public, so you can be honest with yourself, okay? Okay.
If you laid out an extra $5 a week for just one additional swing through the Dunkin’ drive thru, you wouldn’t really feel it at all, would you?
Would you feel it if you drove through McDonalds for a Quarter Pounder Meal once a week for a bit more than $10 a go? I’m not asking if you’d feel it in your stomach! We’d all feel it there! I’m asking, would you really feel it in your wallet? Would swinging through that drive thru once a week for the coming year make you have to give up something you did weekly this last year?
How about picking up one of those giant bags of Halloween Candy each week? Again, I’m not asking if you’d feel it in your blood sugar numbers! I’m asking if you spent $20 a week, each week on a bag of Halloween candy (yes the good kind!) would you honestly notice a difference in your pocketbook?
I ask that because here is how we could all make a big difference. If just 20 of us pledged $20 more per week, and another 20 of us pledged just $10 more a week, and another 20 of us pledged $5 more a week for 2025, we could raise our combined pledged giving from $165,968 in 2024 to over $200,000 in 2025. Imagine the wonderful things we could do for one another and for our community with just some coffee, burger, or candy level of generosity.
This year I’m challenging you to raise your pledge by a Dunkin’, a Quarter Pounder, or a Big Bag of Candy per week. Whose in?
Pastor Erik
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