Your generosity makes the Michiana Mennonite Relief Sale possible. There are many ways to give: from quilts to food items and everything in between. On this page:

• Online Silent Auction

• Quilt Auction

• Plants

• Crafts

Online Silent Auction

The Online Auction in 2024 will again be held completely online, with items on display at the Elkhart County 4-H Fairgrounds during the Michiana Mennonite Relief Sale, September 27 and 28, 2024. Pickup will take place on Saturday, September 28, at the fairgrounds at the close of the sale. (Details to follow)

Bidding begins on Friday, September 20, one week before the MMRS sale begins. Bid online to win valuable services, antiques, and items of interest.

All donors will be recognized on the website! Suggested donations:

Creating themed gift baskets to donate is a fun activity for Sunday school classes, small groups, ministry teams, etc. If you would like to donate gift baskets, you must contact Bob or Deb Kauffman (see contact info below).

Get ideas for what best raises money to support MCC in helping refugees by looking at a previous year’s auction website: http://charityauction.bid/MCCsale2023

Donated items must be new, with the exception of unique collectables and antiques in good condition. Each item must have a minimum value of $50.

Donations to the Online Auction must be received by Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. The Online Auction is not able to accept donations during the sale weekend.

To volunteer or donate, contact Bob Kauffman (574-849-0053) or Deb Kauffman (574-849-6366) or kauffman.mmrs@gmail.com. Thank you!

Quilts & Blankets

The deadline to donate quilts to the Quilt Auction was August 25. No items are accepted the day of the sale.

Baked Goods

Consider making and donating food that can be sold at the sale. Call one of the following people to pick up baking containers, e.g. roll pans, pie pans, cookie trays, noodle & bread bags. Please call before arriving so they have time to get it ready for you. 

• Mary Sue Miller (574)-350-7265, 1008 Mervin St. Goshen, Indiana

• Esther Miller, (260) 350-1148, 1165 S. SR 5, Topeka, IN 46571

• Joyce Blucher, (574) 773-4407, 26170 CR 50, Nappanee, IN 46550

Baking checklist:

• Ensure rolls and pies are completely baked, and double-bag all noodles.

• Please return all unused containers.

• List your church's name and all ingredients on the label.

• Remember: NO margarine as ingredient.

See the Information Sheet for food-specific information and the Contact/Container Sheet for how to get containers for food you donate. Thank you for your continued involvement and support! We look forward to seeing you soon. If you have questions or suggestions please contact Chris Yoder at 574-536-9654; email at wovenfriendships@gmail.com. or any of the food committee below:

• Board member: Chris Yoder, (574) 536-9654

• Co-Chair: Lillian Hochstetler, (574) 312-5818

• Co-Chair: Ada Bontrager, (574) 584-5988

• Food coordinators:
  Jayne Martin, (574) 238-2689
  Lisa Weaver, (574) 361-1587
  Karen Graybill (574) 971-6623
  Barb Christophel, (574) 370-3021

Please drop off plant donations on Friday morning and throughout the day Friday, at the Elkhart County Community Building.

If you enjoy gardening or raising house plants and have several to spare, donating any of these items to the Relief Sale will help boost funding for MCC!

African Violets, large and small house plants, and perennials are all very popular and sell well at the Sale. Dried arrangements and individual dried stalks like Hydrangeas also sell very well.

Start plant cuttings and transplant perennial starts now to prepare more plants and perennials for the sale in September!

For more information, call the Relief Sale office at 888-503-8559 or email mennonitesale@yahoo.com.

The Sewing Box welcomes your donated quilt and craft related items throughout the year. Those used/unused/unfinished items no longer needed in your quilt/sewing closet can be given to the Sewing Box!

 Consider donating:

• Finished/unfinished quilt tops

• Unfinished quilt blocks

• Old or damaged quilts

• Quilt supplies and tools

• Quilt or craft books and magazines

• Quilt patterns and stencils

• Quilting frames

• Notions-buttons, scissors, thread, thimbles, trims, sewing baskets

• Yarn (full or partial skeins), embroidery floss, knit cro-sheen

• Unfinished craft projects/kits

• Fabric – cotton, flannel, poly-cotton, crazy quilt (satin, velvet, etc.)

• Sewing cabinets

Contact Quilt Auction chair Gail Shetler (gail.shetler@gmail.com; 574-333-7142, text or phone.) to donate items. You may also donate items directly to the sale on Friday morning, September 27. 

We are located in the same building as the Quilt Auction.  Sales will begin on Friday evening at 5:00 p.m and Saturday morning at 8:00 a.m.

Donate your homemade items for sale in the Crafter’s Marketplace. Contact crafting.mmrs@gmail.com.

There are several ways to gift MCC through the Relief Sale effort: 

• Click HERE to donate online.

• Monetary donations made by mail can be sent to MMRS PO Box 243, Goshen, IN 46527.

• You can also contact Dayton Frey at mailto:dgfrey@frontier.com or call the Relief Sale office at 888-503-8559.