Spaghetti
Lunch
Immediately after your morning service. Ask
your church (or WMA if you have one) to provide the food so
that all money received would be pure profit.
First you will need to confirm with your Pastoral
staff/church office a date.
Use a variety of ways to make sure everyone is invited:
Make use of your church's weekly bulletin.
Make sure it is placed in the Sunday order of Worship
(if you are allowed).
Make cute invitation and place them inside the
attendance book for each adult Sunday school class. Do this
for at least 3 weeks.
If your church uses a projector to advertise activities
of the church, make sure you turn yours in with another
notice to get it on "air".
Ask for a couple of minutes the week before and the day
of the event to invite from the pulpit.
On the day of the event, make sure you have someone
(preferably) one of your girls, out front to take the
money. Have a sign stating, "Donations requested" on the
table with a decorated basket. Have a price in mind for the
cost...some people will want to know how much is needed.
Make sure the girl knows what you need. If everything is
donated, generally for adults a cost of $3 and for kids
under 12 $1. Also, have a little something on the table
about what you plan to do to the money. IE: help pay camp
fees, provide for a certain project, purchase gifts for the
children's home, etc.
Before the event, recruit many moms (also some WMA ladies
would be helpful) to help with the decorations, cooking,
serving. Make sure the girls know that they are to help
with all of this also. People don't mind supporting
anything if they see the kids in action also.
Also, talk to whomever is in charge of cleaning your
building. Let them know what you will need in the way of
tables, chairs, tablecloths, etc. Also, make sure that you
and your girls stick around to help in the clean up.
If you are using plates, cups, etc from the church, at least
2 weeks prior to the event contact your church secretary to
make sure they will have enough on the day of the lunch.
After the event, make sure you use the above named venues to
send a BIG THANK YOU to all and let them know how much you
raised.
