Sunday School Fundraiser

This has been a very interesting Sunday School year. Our 1st quarter service project has pretty much taken over all of our classtime and we haven't yet gotten into our content for this year, beginning with King Solomon. That's okay, though, because the children are really excited about adopting a gorilla and it is all coming together. The church is having a turkey dinner (put on by the United Methodist Men) on Saturday October 20th and we have been given permission (after the children gave a presentation today to the S.S. Superintendent) to have a few tables outside with our fundraiser items for sale.

We are collecting used book donations to sell at one table, will be making hand-dipped candles to sell at another table, and I just found some organic lemonade mix so that we can sell lemonade at table #3. We have a large mobile bulletin board which the children will decorate with signs saying what we are selling and what we intend to do with the money that we raise. Someone from the church has offered a tent for us to stand under. Our goal is $100 but I have gotten so many people saying they will donate books that I think we may be able to raise more than that!

Today's S.S. lesson was final decision making from our brainstorm list, presentation to the folks in charge, and permission being granted. It took our whole 45 minutes. Next week we will make the candles and our posters for the sale tables. The event is on the 20th... then on the 21st we can get together and count our money! If we make more than our goal but not enough to fully adopt another gorilla the children plan to take up a special collection at the church to make up the difference. The costs are $50 for a baby, $100 for a mother/baby pair, and $300 for an adult male.