The church will sell $7 meals with meatball sandwiches. It hopes to sell more than 200 of them.
Richwood United Methodist Church (UMC) will host its annual bagged lunch sale on Saturday, Oct. 28, at its Fellowship Hall.
Guests can place an order for a bagged lunch to be picked up anywhere from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. that day. Included will be a meatball sandwich, a bag of chips and two homemade cookies, according to church Administrator Mildred Herman. UMC hopes to sell about 250 meals at $7 each. Participants need not be members of the church.
The sale is sponsored by the church’s LIFE Class, which came up with the idea during COVID, when events the church could have used to raise money were cancelled.
“The LIFE Class has been doing bagged lunch Sales for about three years,” said Herman. “We started when the pandemic forced us to find creative ways to raise money.”
The LIFE Class will also handle cooking and meal prep during the bagged lunch sale. The class itself consists of churchgoing women who meet on the first Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. to discuss church business, study the Bible, and hold casual get-togethers.
“They support mission work in the church, in the local community and globally, so the proceeds from this sale will be used to help others,” Herman noted.
The LIFE class is open to any woman and its participants hold other fundraisers during the year. Their Kids Alley backpack and school supplies drive in August netted an estimated $1,050 in goods for kids in Camden County, according to the church’s October 2023 newsletter.
“Women of all ages are welcome and the group would love to have more new members,” the newsletter points out. “They do several fundraisers a year in order to support missionaries and other local mission work.”
