I knew the Mormon Church was very proud of it's correlation program which keeps all the lessons and lesson manuals synchronized throughout the world. Every Sunday, virtaully every class in the church is listening to the same lesson from the same lesson manual. Deviation is strongly discouraged.
Judging from the Young Women's fundraisers this year, it appears that the long arm of correlation has even reached spaghetti dinners. A week ago we had a Young Women's fundraiser in our ward that consisted of a spaghetti dinner accompanied by an auction of deserts and other good things to eat. We invited our son and his family to join in the fun.
Last night they returned thte favor by inviting us to their Young Women's fundraiser which consisted of a spaghetti dinner accompanied by an auction of deserts, services, and other worthwhile things. The only difference was that this time it was a silent auction instead of the live auction at our ward. I thought the entertainment value of the live auction was significantly greater although it did take a lot of time.
I understand that at least one of our daughters also was involved with the Young Women's fundraiser in their ward which consisted of (can you guess?) a spaghetti dinner and an auction. Can anyone tell me if this is a trend? If so, I can't wait for it to extend to other church functions such as the annual beach party (which could be difficult for those in Colinsville, Oklahoma.
in Collinsville, it would be a dinner of biscuits and gravy..maybe grits!
ReplyDeleteThey love to make baskets of "things", wrap them in cellophane and then silent auction...some interesting things in these baskets, trust me!
I don't know if Ed told you or not but our dinner and auction had both a silent and live auction. It was supposed to be just a live auction of baked goods but they ended up auctioning off anything that didn't sell at the silent auction in the first place. Now that's what I call fundraising.
ReplyDeleteNot that I don't like a spaghetti and green salad meal, but since I am in charge of the Pre-Priesthood Session (of General Conference) Social - we are having Pizza (from Sam's Club). True it is not a fund raiser, in fact it is more like a pizza eating contest than anything else.
ReplyDelete