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| West Central MI Chapter, Congregational Coordinator Newsletter, March, 2007 |
| Breakfast-- on your Chapter |
Thanks to you congregational coordinators for the time and energy you put into your congregation's needs and assisting them in getting Thrivent funds. A more formal "thank you" and more information about how to utilize your church's Thrivent funds will be Saturday, April 14 from 9-11am. Holton Lutheran Church will provide us breakfast, Kathy Reither will give us some info about Thrivent's generous programs, and I will pass out some gifts. You needn't bring anything, though you may invite your congregation's pastor and secretary too. This is sponsored by your Thrivent Chapter board. We will all have fun!
Holton Lutheran is at 6655 Marvin Rd., just east of the Holton blinker light. For breakfast numbers for the cooks, I want to hear from you, if you are coming. Call ME at my office 231-8949085 or my home 8944331.
And if you have your calendar out, post these dates too for Thrivent events: next Chapter board meeting at Old Country Buffet on Sherman Blvd. in Muskegon is Tuesday, March 27 at 12:30pm(meeting begins after we eat); April Chapter board meeting at the same place and time on Tuesday, April 24; Join Hands Day in McGraft Park, Muskegon, Saturday, May 19 for improving the park and enjoying the outdoors.
And here's a suggestion for getting ideas to use your congregation's allotted Thrivent funds: host a fellowship coffee hour before worship and ask members where the needs are---the Chapter board has some funding available for this kind of event. Frank Hollister, your Chapter's Congregational Service Team Director
| Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is a membership organization. |
What type of activity—fund-raiser or hands-on service activity*—best meets a need your congregational service team has identified in your congregation? Look at the goal or purpose of the activity and ask these questions:
- Is the activity being done to generate funds (dollars)? When yes, a fund-raiser activity should be planned.
- Is the activity being done to assemble, create or improve something using volunteer labor? When yes, a hands-on service activity should be planned.
A fund-raiser activity uses Care program funds to supplement the dollars raised. A hands-on service activity uses Care program funds to purchase materials used for the volunteer activity. Funds are not to be used for paid labor or gift certificates.
Here are some examples of each type of activity:
Fund-raiser activity - Silent auction, benefit dinner, rummage sale, auction, car wash, bake sale, spaghetti dinner, appeal/collection.
Hands-on service activity - paint the church hall, construct a wheelchair ramp, landscape the church grounds, clean the church and school, create gift baskets for shut-ins, clean-up church grounds, build cabinetry for the fellowship hall.
For members, by members:
This newsletter was written and edited by volunteer leaders of your local Thrivent Financial for Lutherans chapter to keep you informed of chapter news. If you have any questions and/or comments about the content of this newsletter or would like to learn more about chapter activities being planned in your area, please contact one of your chapter leaders. To access your chapter leader contact information, go to www.thrivent.com; Members/Chapters; Information About My Chapter; View Leadership/Activities/Website; Chapter Leadership Board.
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