Thoughts on Youth Workdays as a Christian Fundraising Tool

Posted by Aaron Jeschke on August 10, 2009

During my time in youth ministry we would often host workdays with our youth in order to raise funds for upcoming youth trips. These workdays would involve contacting a current church member and having them provide us with a large scale task, usually landscaping, for a sum that would go towards financing the participating youths trips. Overall I think that this method of  has some good points. It allows to serve a church member in a very tangible way. It also allows the students to develop skills and build character learning that all work yields a profit. Though there are certainly obvious benefits is this really the best way to engage in youth group fundraising? There are certainly a number of cons involved in putting together a youth workday.

The obvious is that any job that the youth would do would not be very professional. If the church member is expecting to have lawn redesigned in a professional manner that certainly won’t happen. A second problem is that it is often very expensive for a church member to pay a full days worth of labor to a group of 10 or more students. This would lmit the number of church members who could be involved in organizing workdays. Lastly, it is a very hard days work for a youth pastor or youth leader who already has a tough enough job as it is. Most of the organizing and managing falls into the hands of the youth leader who might not even really know what he or she is doing.I know of one church that workdays are really the only fundraising tactic they really use. Is there a better way?

I think by selling a product such as the Samaritan Card you really can have a much faster, easier time of raising your money. All the youth pastor has to do is order the cards one time and distribute them to the students. The Samaritan Card eliminates the long, difficult workday and allows church members of all income levels to engage in youth group fundraising while saving those precious few dollars that they need. If a workday is too much for you than I definitely recommend you utilize the Samaritan Card.

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1. Polprav says:

   October 11, 2009 at 5:09 pm

   Hello from Russia