Yard Sale Fundraiser!

Back in March, I dived into seeking financial partnerships for my urban missionary work as Life Coaches for Kids director at Bethlehem Baptist.  Daily, God rewards this experience in unexpected ways, but it has also been challenging in unexpected ways.  We're facing a pretty sizeable budget shortfall (40% of our goal), so we're looking at some creative fund raising ideas.  The biggest idea we're pursuing is hosting a yard sale at our home on August 19 to 21.  Our goal is $1200 of sales, which would be enough to cover over 10% of our budget needs.  This would give us a good amount of financial leverage and be a big step in keeping Life Coaches going for all the father absent kids we serve at Bethlehem Baptist!

 

 The boys providing some help with assessing yard capacity.   

Here are the details:

• Contact us to drop off or arrange a pick up of any items you would like to donate. (We're in South Minneapolis, so we're pretty centrally located.)  
• We'll take anything you'd like to give:  clothing, appliances, books, music, crafts, decorations, furniture, tools, school supplies, technology items, etc.  If you can tape a suggested price on bigger ticket items, that's a help... but if you don't have time, no problem. 
• We'd be thrilled to have people donate craft projects, bake sale items (we're exploring potential for a Saturday morning bake sale), garden produce, etc. 
• Please let us know if you have any tables or clothing racks we could use for displaying things or plastic we could use for a cover up in the event of rain.   
• We're also looking for volunteers to help with labeling items prior to sale, for setup/takedown (4 in the morning and 4 in the evenings for about 1 hour), someone artistic who could help with signage, and anyone who'd like to help us with transporting items to our home.  

Just email or call us, if you'd like to get involved.  We're excited to see what God does through this summer event!  We're also going to talk to neighbors about piggy-backing on our yard sale to try to bring in more traffic --  maybe we'll end up with a little community-building activity on top of everything else!