Thank You to Our Sponsors!

In addition to our stewardship program, we are blessed to have community sponsors who provide assistance to us. Our dinner table placemats feature them all weekly. Take a look at the this group, whom we thank heartily! Please consider giving them your business when the need arises. 

 

 

Effortless Giving Program

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 Giving a Hand Can be Easier Than You Think!

We understand the financial challenges we all face. It's difficult to keep up with our obligations and still make charitable donations.

For some time we have used RoundUp App as the center of our Effortless Giving Program. It's based on a process where you download an APP on your smartphone and sign up to donate your 'change' for amounts you spend to the nearest dollar. It leverages the power of small amounts made with no effort after a ten-minute sign up process to register a credit or debit card you use for standard purchases. It is literally the most effortless way to donate money you won't even notice is gone to the charity of your choice. 

  • Buy groceries with a registered debit card for $34.50 and 50 cents is donated
  • Fill up your car with a registered credit card for $29.80 and 20 cents is donated 

This person has donated 70 cents without any effort on their part. If 30 people were doing the same spending that day, the church just made $21! This is the power of RoundUp. But wait- if that happened every day, it comes to $7,665! And if each person's spending resulted in $1/day, the church would make more than $10,000 after processing fees. 

This program currently needs to be refreshed within the system and is unavailable for the moment. 

 

 

 

Support and Diversification!

 

Fundraising is challenging at the best of times but it's important to stay ahead of the trends, while using solid best practices that suit the parishioners and our community in general. For example, we have done online auctions and raffles with success. These activities engage parishioners with different skill sets so we don't over-burden the same people. 

If you have an idea for fundraising, and are willing to help design and execute it, we would be delighted to consider the idea. We want to hear from anyone- including the younger members of the parish  through the most experienced. 

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Let's Insert YOUR Fundraising Idea HERE!

 

IT ONLY TAKES ONE!

Raffle Dazzle Winner!

Our first online raffle did not have the necessary level of ticket sales to give away the trips we originally planned. As stated in the rules, that resulted in converting the event to a simple 50/50 with ONE winner. The raffle program made its automated choice ... and the winner is ...

Catherine Apostolos!

 

 


Catherine shared that she and her friends are regulars at our festivals, and she loves supporting our fundraising efforts. She, like many others in the community, are people to whom we give our heartfelt thanks. Her winning story is a fun one, too, because she bought ONE ticket, and as our 50/50 winner, she made her money back AND made 50 times as much in profit! Congratulations Catherine, on your $1020 win!  
   
   
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hard-Working Champions

 

It's not just about the fish fry and festival. Those are huge efforts that take a lot of time and energy from people. Additionally, every day we have unpaid workers in the church or hall, taking care of a myriad of activities from baking the bread  to wrapping silverware in napkins, cleaning, or ordering supplies. They greet you at the door. They create the bulletins. They make the bread or Koliva. They literally do anything needed to take care of our Church and give us a beautiful and functional place to worship. These people are angels in the background who support the liturgical mission of Archangel Michael Greek Orthodox Church. We couldn't thank them enough. The blessed thing is that they don't do it for the recognition, but to glorify God in the way they can. Still, we thank you. Your unseen work makes it possible for us to come on Sundays and concentrate on our relationship with God, and how we can also glorify Him.