Posted by Aaron Jeschke on August 31, 2009
Some of the most rewarding and community building moments happen during Christian Sporting events. I have had a blast playing soccer with my church soccer team and it has helped me to build relationships with other church members whom I would never had known otherwise. Sometimes Christian Sports teams have a tougher time engaging in Christian Fundraising because it is tougher to communicate the vision of a Christian Sports team. Also sports are a secondary activity and most people would rather play than raise the money they need to play. Christian Fundraising is relatively difficult for sports teams because players don’t want to spend a lot of time raising money. Church sports teams need a Church Fundraising product that allows them to raise money quickly and easily while providing tangible benefits to donors.
The Samaritan Card provides a more than adequate solution to the problems facing a typical Church sports team. First, it only takes a few minutes to sell the Samaritan Card. There is no need to take an exorbitant amount of time planning a massive fundraising event when you can simply order and sell the Samaritan Card. The Samaritan Card also provides donors with very obvious and tangible benefits. The card pays for itself so those potential donors who don’t see themselves as entirely aligned with the vision of the team can still give in order to save. Christian Fundraising for church sports teams has never been easier!
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.
