Friday, December 11, 2009

Peru Fundraiser - Oakville

In addition to Cornwall, 23 people from Oakville (Cedarview) will be coming with us Peru. This group has been participating in the orientation sessions we are doing from afar and getting fundraising moving too. Below is their event that was also held on Dec 5th. Enjoy.
We just had our bazaar on Saturday and it was a great event! I believe that we raised $6500.00 profit. Here is a brief description of the day: All 18 youths, lots of leaders and even more parents all pulled together to put on a great bazaar. From the time that the idea was conceived to the day it was executed, it was about 8 weeks. The result of this intense planning were the following rooms: Plants, Cookie Decorating, Groceries, Kids Shopping Only, Gifts, Games, Popcorn and Movies, T-shirts and International Cafe. Many church members contributed baked goods, dishes, time and money in support of this event. Preparations began the day before where "all hands on deck" was ordered by our youth pastor, John.
We started the day off with a pancake breakfast then opened the doors to the great buys and fun that awaited. The bazaar went from 10:00 to 2:00 with the last hour being a "market place" in the church foyer. Emerging from the rooms, vendors took all the remaining goods to the main area and slashed their prices. It was probably just as much fun watching the exchanges near the end! All in all, it really was a fun day -- an exhausting one, but a great one. We all worked together!
Our sign in the front of the church letting the Clearview neighbourhoodknow that we are having a bazaar. Two weeks earlier we delievered as a youthgroup 700 flyers to also let them know.
This is Esther making the signs for the doors
This is Esther and Samantha working hard making all the sign for in the church. Everyone that is going to Peru got a t-shirt that says I love... (fill in the blank, could be Peru, My leaders, God, Dutch food) Here is two guys getting theres Jonathon is behind the table and James is in front.
This is a picture of Jordan and hannah in the Plant room. All our plants in this room were donated, so what we sold was profit. Jordan was the head of this room. Hannah worked in the game room and just "jumped" in for the picture.
Approx. 60 baskets for the silent auction were made from things that we collected from home. These baskets made over $1000.
This is Stephanie, she was a floater and whenever we needed something she would help us out. Along side of her is Rachel a youth leader from the gradeschool kids
This is a line emptying out a van filled with croquettes which were part of our preorder forms. Parents and youth along side.
This is Corrine pricing gifts in the "Specialty Gift Room" with one of the moms (Ingrid Cooper) from 2 kids going. Great deals on belts, wallets, sunglasses and much more.
A happy family coming from the international café with all there food. We had borenkoel, nasi, pizza, french fries, croquettes, pea soup and much more. Lots of desserts also.
Esther again selling popcorn for the movie "Up" that was playing in thesancuary so the parents could sit down and eat peacefully or shop.
This is Corrine selling our red "I Love" shirts
Daniel and Ellie in the red shirts doing dishes with a dishwasher, thank goodness. Also helping is one of the moms Maryann.
Patty's family getting lunch.
Nearing the end of the day and selling the remainder of the the baked goods!

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