April 27

Spring Fling FUNdraising Day

Spring Fling raises money for St. James UMC to give grants to local non-profits.

Here are 5 Ways to Help Our Community through Spring Fling:

  • Tent Yard Sale
  • Chicken Dinner Sales
  • Sweet and Savory Food to Go
  • Book Sale
  • Family Ministry Fun Event

NOTE FOR BUSY MOMS & DADS:

Nursery will be available all day on April 27 to enable you to volunteer!

 

Tent Yard Sale: How to Help

The Spring Fling Tent is back. It is now up and ready for us to organize the Yard Sale!

 

 

1.   Continue donating goods for the Tent Yard Sale

Donate now at the truck trailer in the CLMC field between 1 and 6 p.m., Mondays through Saturdays.

 

  • Household Items
    (kitchen wares and linens)
  • Children’s Clothing
  • Children’s Toys
  • Children’s Books
  • Books for Adults
    (please drop off bagged or boxed books in the Fellowship Hall hallway; see below under “Book Sale”)

 

2.    Volunteer to work in the Yard Sale Tent

  • “All hands on deck” to unload the trailer THIS Sunday, April 21. Please donate your time to help during the afternoon. The more folks we have, the faster we will finish.

 

  • Help sort and price items from Monday, April 22, to Friday, April 26. Giving time at the end of your work day or at lunch will go far in helping us get ready for Spring Fling. When you sign up, please indicate the hour(s) you are able to help. All volunteers are invited to have lunch on the days that they are working.

 

  • Help run the yard sale as a cashier or customer service person. On your volunteer registration, please indicate the hours you can help.

 

  • Help tear down and clean up. Mostly, that means putting tables and other St. James UMC property back in their proper places. Otherwise, the tent company will take down the tent, and a volunteer organization will pick up any remaining sale items.

 

3.    Buy stuff at the Yard Sale!

FOR THE FIRST TIME CREDIT CARDS MAY BE USED FOR YOUR PURCHASES!

 

Barbecue Chicken Dinners: How to Help

1.   Buy Dinners

  • You should have received a letter about the dinners from the Spring Fling Committee that included a set of five tickets to buy or sell.
  • Please complete and return the form in the letter, no matter what you decide to do with the tickets.
  • For only $12, each dinner includes an entire chicken half, potatoes, beans, and a roll.
  • Drive-through pickup will be available from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on April 27.

 

2.   Volunteer to Cook/Prepare/Distribute the Dinners

  • To volunteer to grill chickens or cook potatoes or beans, please click HERE!
  • To volunteer to plate the food, please click HERE!
  • To volunteer to distribute the dinners, please click HERE!

 

Sweet and Savory Food Sale: How to Help

1.   Prepare Food

  • The Sweet and Savory Food Sale, a popular event organized by United Methodist Women of Faith, will return to the Fellowship Hall for Spring Fling.
  • Please donate baked goods of all sorts, as well as casseroles, canned and jarred food, and frozen food.
  • Please click HERE to let us know what food you can prepare.
    Scroll down to the first two items on the form and select one based on the time you can deliver your food.

 

2.   Volunteer to Price and Sell Food

  • To help price and sell the food items that will be donated and sold on April 27, please click HERE.
  • Pricing and organizing will take place on Thursday, April 25, and Friday, April 26.
  • Please choose the task and time most favorable to you, then sign up HERE.

 

3.    Buy goods at Sweet & Savory Food to Go!

FOR THE FIRST TIME CREDIT CARDS MAY BE USED FOR YOUR PURCHASES!

 

Book Sale: How to Help

1.   Collect and Donate Books for Sale

  • Please donate books for adults as part of your tent sale donations.
  • HOWEVER, please carry boxed or bagged books to the hallway between the libraries and the Fellowship Hall, where they will be stored until the sale on April 27.

 

2.   Volunteer at the Book Sale

 

3.    Buy books at the Book Sale!

FOR THE FIRST TIME CREDIT CARDS MAY BE USED FOR YOUR PURCHASES!

 

Family Ministry Event: How to Help

Volunteer to help run the bounce house and dunking booth.

To help with the bounce house, please sign up HERE, under “Family Fun Event.”

To help with the dunking booth, please sign up HERE, under “Family Fun Event.”

Bounce House “victims”: Pastor Tom, Pastor Laura, Pastor Kuda, Miss Dana, Spring Fling Chair Stephen Gray, and Charlie Hairston! For $5 you will have three chances to dunk whoever is in the dunking booth.
 

For more information about any aspect of Spring Fling, email Spring Fling Chair Stephen Gray at glosta007@gmail.com or Chris Garcia at chris@stjconnect.org.

NOTE FOR BUSY MOMS & DADS:

Nursery will be available all day on April 27 to enable you to volunteer!