A Flamingo Fundraiser was held by the Young Adults and Seekers Sunday school classes of Astoria Christian Church. A total of $305.00 was raised by putting flamingos in people’s yards and then having them donate money to the camp’s Kingdom Harvest fund to have them removed. For a price, you could even determine at whose house the flamingos landed next.
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Grant Brown, Jared Burns, Bruce Provine, and Claire Brown from Maple Avenue Christian Church in Macomb raised $193.42 toward new bathrooms at LaMoine Christian Service Camp by selling soap made by the youth group at Farmer’s Market.

Some of you may remember Rachel Smith. She deaned the Ladies retreat in 2007. Rachel likes a challenge and loves to help. When she read of the camps stewardship program she decided to try something really big with friend Lorri Kachinovas, but she needs your help.

Rachel Smith is using her seed money to host a Pampered Chef Fund Raiser Open House at Maple Avenue Christian Church from noon to 3pm on June 14. You can participate in this fund raiser in several ways. 1. Come to the open house on June 14 to try out some great kitchen gadgets and place an order. 2. Go on-line, check out all the latest items and recipes and place an order at her online store enter name Lamoine Christian Camp as the host. 3. Place an order at the camps open house on June 6. Many of the items will be on display and you can place your order while enjoying the camp open house. 4. Book your very own Pampered Chef catalog or home show.

This is a great way for people from many churches to help support the camp. Items will be delivered directly to your home. If you have questions on products, ordering or how you can help, call Rachel at 309-836-3220. Rachel asks, “please, tell your friends, collect orders from family and co-workers and pray, pray, pray. Our God is good, all the time.”

So far, 139 seed money packets have been sent out, and $3,503 has been received in return.  So far, we have some great ideas:

One recipient is using their seed money to literally buy seeds for a garden, planning to sell the produce at a farmer’s market

One youth wants to get people to sponsor him in a pogostickathon

One lady is going to use the money for postage to invite people to a Pampered Chef party — 20% of all sales for this party will go to the camp.

Are you ready for the challenge?  Here are a few ideas to get you started.

Put the $5 in a container and add to it as you are able

Put the $5 in your Bible and pray about how God would have you to use it

Use your best Money Origami skills to create something creative with your $5 and sell it for $10, then use the $10 for another creation and sell it for $20, and so on

Use the $5 to pay for the cost of long-distance phone calls or postage expense to ask friends or family to give to the camp’s new bathrooms

Give a picture of you holding the $5 bill to everyone that donates to your cause

Buy some “Garage Sale” signs with the $5 and then sell everything you own, maybe even sell all your neighbors stuff too

Put the $5 in a container displayed prominently in your home or office and tell everyone who visits about how you are trying to grow the “seed money”

Use the $5 to pay for bottled water for your walk-a-thon, run-a-thon, or bike-a-thon and get people to sponsor you

See if someone will trade you $10 for the $5, and then $20 for the $10, and so on

Purchase and decorate some containers to be put in places of business to raise money for the camp’s new bathrooms

Use the $5 in a piece of artwork; use the cash from the sale in another artwork piece, and so on

Come on now, YOU are the creative one! Let’s see what YOU can think of.