Children's Ministry Idea Bank

Submitted by:
Daniel Bunce, Children’s Pastor
C & Adams Street Church of God
502 Adams Street
Fayetteville, NC 28301

Fundraisers for Your Children's Ministry, YWEA or Missions

Christmas offering:
Each Christmas, on the Sunday of our children’s Christmas program, the offering is given to Children’s Ministries. This is a good fundraiser for special items that are needed or for special events. However, this offering could be given as a YWEA or missions offering instead. Attendance is typically high for children’s programs and so a good offering is usually received.

Spring Clean Yard Sale:
In late April, plan a church-wide yard sale. Rent out spaces (you decide how much – we charged $10 last year for a 10’ by 10’ space) in your gym, fellowship hall or parking lot for people who would like to sell. You can also decide whether to rent out tables ($5) or not. You can also request donations from those who don’t have enough for a booth of their own. We opened up our gym for 2 hours the Friday night before to allow people to set up their table(s).

All proceeds from the Children’s Department table will go to the department, YWEA or missions. Individuals keep proceeds from their table and are reminded to tithe on their earnings.

A notice should be placed in the local newspaper as a church-wide yard sale with the date, time and location. Also, you may want to add “no early birds please”. The first time we did this, people showed up 45 minutes early while some people were still setting up.

Mail out flyers to the other churches in the district advertising the sale. Also consider allowing people from those churches to rent spaces.

Optional: Coordinate with another department in the church (youth, ladies ministries, etc) to run a concession stand.

If you have ideas to contribute, contact Tony Lane at ycessce@extremegen.org.

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