Everyone knows our church needs funds, especially for preservation of the building. Marion Lutz has come to the Board with an offer, but we’ll need commitment to make it work!

Marion has coordinated quilt raffles for several organizations, and is willing to coordinate one for us. This has potential to bring in several thousand dollars, much of which might come from outside our small congregation. In order for this to happen, we will need 1) volunteers to help Marion create the quilt (experience helpful but not necessary) and 2) everyone to commit to selling raffle tickets.

1) to make the quilt, Marion can design it and host work parties. If we get together a group of women for a quilting bee, we might even get a Women’s Group going. Or we can have a come-all-ye working party or two. There will be jobs for both experienced quilters and non-quilters. Can you commit to helping?

2) to sell the tickets, Marion says the price would be reasonable, but hopefully almost every member or friend could commit to selling at least $25 worth of tickets, priced at about $1-2 each. People who don’t want to sell the tickets could buy them with their own money. However, we need to have a relatively large group of people willing to sell tickets in order to make this project worth doing. Are you willing to sell tickets?

I will send this out by email also, and you can reply to the email or click on “Comments” below and add a comment to this post. Please respond so that we know whether to proceed with this project!

—Julia Schult