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The object of the project is not to finance
the children, we are hoping the club will spend more time in finding the
children that would benefit the most from this experience. Try to
find a child outside of the church community and you will soon see the
ways that introducing children to Christianity will help benefit the community,
the Church and the AOTS club. If you find the children the money
will come.
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Send out a request form in the church bulletin so that people can sponsor
a child to go to camp.
Ask the sponsor to include a donation in the envelope with the name
of the child. (See example sheet “A”)
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Get a member of your AOTS club to stand up in front of the congregation
to ask for support by way of names of children and donations and tell them
that a member of your AOTS club will be set up in the lobby to accept donations
for the next two Sundays.
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Send a letter, call or present to service clubs in the community or other
church groups to ask for names of children as well as funding for the project.
(See example sheet “B”)
In your presentation or introduction letter please include a thank you
letter from one of the children you sent to camp the year before or the
one I have included. (See example sheet “C”) You may find that many of
them are looking for a youth related project.
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Be sure to invite a representative back to the pot-luck dinner to be thanked
formally in front of the children and their families. With your invitation
to the pot-luck dinner send a letter of thanks. (See
example sheet “D”) along with a copy of a children’s letter that
was sent that summer.
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Call the parents of the child and tell them that their child has been chosen
to be sponsored in full to spend one week at your local United Church camp.
Also make sure that you ask if they are willing to make a donation to the
project to allow more children to go. Suggest that the child might
feel like raising some of the money him/herself by way of a garage
sale or saving part of their allowance. You might find that
there is no money and some families could raise a good portion of the money.
The important thing is to introduce the project and help where it is needed,
not to fund all of the money.
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