ACTIVITIES

FUNDRAISERS

The branch has effectively planned and carried out three inaugural and innovative fundraisers in order to send seven of our members to Conference 2007. 

SACRIFICIAL OFFERING

During Lent we were told by the Parish Priest that we should not use food for fundraising therefore the executive put their creative heads together to produce a pioneering fundraising activity that would keep with the penitential season of Lent and also the idea of alms giving.  The inventive idea was that during the penitential season as you were supposed to have given up luxuries you would have more spare change, therefore for each weekday of Lent you would put 25 cents; and on Sundays $1.00 into an envelope as your Sacrificial Offering. At the end of the season the envelope should contain $15.75 the least.  The executive decided to give Sacrificial Offering envelopes only to current A.Y.P.A. members seeing as it was the first time we were implementing it.

MOTHERS’ DAY 2007

For Mothers’ Day the branch provided a gift basket and balloon service for anyone who wanted to purchase such gifts for their mothers.  We prepared gift and fruit baskets as well as helium filled balloons all of various sizes and prices with Mothers’ Day greetings cards attached to them.  Assorted miniature chocolate bars were also tied to the ends of the strings holding the balloons.  The gift, fruit baskets and balloons were delivered to the homes of the recipients as part of the service provided.

WHITSUNDAY 2007

On Whit Sunday, the A.Y.P.A. sold Snack Plates for $15.00 at the end of our church service.  The Snack Plate consisted of small well-prepared finger foods such as patty, cake, sandwiches, saltfish balls and chicken wings.  As usual our congregation supported us well and we were able to sell all the Snack Plates.

CHRISTMAS SOCIAL 2006

As is customary our branch held its Christmas Social and gift exchange in December.  We decided to do something with a difference and travelled to the Cenotaph, World War II Memorial on the Bay Road on the evening of the 18th.  We ordered pizzas and brought music and tables to lay our gifts and food on.  We all ate and drank our fill after offering a prayer to the Lord and then we exchanged gifts.  We were all surprisingly pleased with our gifts and we could see that we all thought really hard about what each other would like.

EASTER MONDAY 2007

One of our non-fundraising activities this year was our inaugural Easter Monday Sports Day where the juniors challenged the seniors in many versatile sporting activities such as races, a treasure hunt and cricket.  Needless to say, though we were small in number the seniors went home victorious and left the juniors to train harder for next year.  To end the day we had a good-old “wet down” session where we had fun drenching one another with water balloons, buckets of water and even ice cubes. All thoroughly enjoyed the sports day and the group plans to make it a permanent and fixture for the A.Y.P.A. year.