Went to a Church Dinner yesterday. It was great!
By writersedge
@writersedge (22563)
United States
October 13, 2008 8:02am CST
The church I was brought up in, but don't attend now (in a different town and I'm a different religion now anyway)had a fundraising dinner. It's in the hall next door to the actual church. Each table had 8 place settings. There were 8 tables in each row, that's 64 tables and two rows so 128 people that they seat at a time. My husband and I had tickets 4 and 5. He went an hour early to buy tickets. I had to go to work as soon as we finished eating, so he was sweet enough to do that for me.
The dinner was buffet:turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, squash, and green beans in the line. At the table were rolls, real butter, pickles and cranberry sauce. Someone came around with drinks. We both had milk. After we ate someone came around to ask if we wanted apple or pumpkin pie. We both had pumpkin. All tasted good to me!
They also had two raffles: One for a shopping cart full of food. Another for money drawings. Because our finances are challenged right now, we were just going to buy the dinner. But my brother was there, he and my husband have to play those dorky pull tabs. Guess what? My hubbie won $50 on pull tabs! So we also bought some raffle tickets for the two different raffles.
Before the entrance to the hall was a big tent. There were home made items, knife sharpeners, craft magazines, and food. After I left, my hubbie bought pickles and mincemeat pie. So when I came home from work, I had pickles and pie. Strange supper.
Do you go to any feasts, dinner, supper, luncheon, or breakfast fundraisers? If you do, what are yours like? If you don't, did you before when times weren't so challenging for money? Or if you never have, would you like to? Why or why not? Take care
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5 responses
@mimico (3617)
• Philippines
13 Oct 08
Wow this fund raising dinner sounds awesome! Did you meet anyone from the congregation? I don't go to church at all but if there was something like this I might give it a try. What are pull tabs? I don't understand how that works. And is it Thanksgiving already?
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
13 Oct 08
Every week, in my area, in the fall, there is a church dinner. Some are roast beef, some chicken, etc.
It is Thanksgiving in Canada, many Canadians actually come down to my former church and have Thanksgiving down here. They have their Thanksgiving in October. Americans in November. When you consider that the original Thanksgiving was in Massachusets, outdoors, unless the climate has changed a lot, October makes more sense, esp. harvest wise if you want fresh food. But November also makes sense, because some years October would be right in the middle of the harvest.
Pull tabs are squares of double paper glued together around the edges. One layer is the back and the other the front. On the front, there is scored (pearced with something to make dotted lines) in an incomplete oval. You bend it and the little incomplete oval pops open. Now it reveals something like the caseno one-armed bandits. If you get three 7s of the same kind, you get one prize, etc. Often you get fruit, depends on what kind it is and what company sells them, etc. They're a game of chance. If you match things, you get prizes. I don't know if I'm explaining this very well.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
13 Oct 08
I found a site that if you page down, you can see pictures of some:
http://www.arrowinternational.com/popp/
See if the above works for you. Take care.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
16 Oct 08
Yes, I did meet a lovely Lady from the Congregation. She is the choir director and she flies between Texas and NY States. She works Mon-Fri in Texas and is up here Sat and Sun. Boggles my mind. Good thing she's young. Take care.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
13 Oct 08
I love raspberry vinegrette salad dressing. Funny how we remember things we really, really like. Fundraiser for a choir, neat idea. Thanks and take care.
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@rmuxagirl (7548)
• United States
14 Nov 08
I love going to the dinners and things that my church sponsors all the money goes to help my church and we have so much fun with each other. We have a lot of raffles too at dinners, we recently raffled off a Steeler rocking chair. During our dinners we also do skits and things to bring some entertainment. It's a lot of fun.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
15 Nov 08
It sounds great! Our raffles are usually afghans or quits, but sometimes food. One time there was a wooden hutch. I love rocking chairs. I've never been to a church dinner that had skits; skits sound like fun. They've never raffled one of those before. But that's Ok, I have one. Thanks for dropping by and take care.
@carolbee (16230)
• United States
15 Oct 08
Now that's a successful story about the pull tickets. Extra cash is always a good thing. We haven't been to a fundraiser dinner in a very long time. We do attend fundraiser events such as the one we are attending this weekend which is a trivia event at a church. Profits will go to the church. We have two tables and it should be fun. Get to visit with other softball coaches and parents.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
15 Oct 08
I haven't been to any trivia events. Our college, area schools and colleges compete in dollars for scholars at our Mall. Usually I'm working or have a family obligation. They sound like fun, like Jeopardy in teams. Let us know how it works out, sounds like fun. Take care
@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
16 Oct 08
That sounds like that was really fun, and the food sounds fantastic.
I do some fundraisers. I think the last one I supported was for the local historical society, and they were doing turkey dinners.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
16 Oct 08
Your historical society had a turkey dinner? That's cool.
I think ours has a dinner-dance. But it's now priced too high for me. It's actually a Ball with everyone dressed in costumes of different periods. Maybe some day when my husband and I are retired, we can become reinactors and do that. Take care.
