There are a lot of ways you can support the sale with your time and talents:

• Baked Goods 

• Plants and Dried Flowers

• Online Silent Auction

• Recycling

• Children’s Activities

• Setup

• Drive the Golf Cart Shuttle

• Food Booths

• Yard Signs

Bake your favorite or specialty and contribute it to the Relief Sale. Consider making cinnamon rolls, bread, cake, cookies, noodles, gluten-free items, jams/jellies, peppernuts, dinner rolls, and dried fruit. See the Food Packaged for Sale and Food Information pages for more information.

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.

Help with:

• Item pickup

• Marketing

• Event setup

• Technical support and bidder assistance during the sale

For the Quilt Auction or the Sewing Box - Contact Gail Shetler: gail.shetler@gmail.com or 574-333-7142 (call or text)

Online Silent Auction - contact Bob Kauffman (574-849-0053) or Deb Kauffman (574-849-6366) or kauffman.mmrs@gmail.com

Our aim is to compost and recycle as much of our waste as possible. The Relief Sale's Composting and Recycling Committee is looking for people willing to work two hour shifts during the sale. You can also help us run a low-waste event by bringing a water bottle, taking care to sort the items you are throwing out into the correct bins and helping your friends and family do the same. Contact Jennifer Schrock, jhschrock9@gmail.com, to volunteer. 

The Children’s Activities format involves lots of volunteers. Come have fun with the kids! There will be carnival games and activities as well as volunteer and learning opportunities. See the Children’s Activities page for more details. Youth groups are encouraged to “adopt” a game to help staff it but individuals are welcome as well. Contact Children’s Activities Chair Sonya Overman at preschoolsonya@gmail.com for more information.

Donate a few hours or a few days to assist in setup/teardown for Sale events at various locations. This is a great opportunity for youth groups to do service! Contact Bryan Heinz at bryanlisa22@gmail.com or by phone at 574-202-2558.

Help Relief Sale visitors from and to their vehicles or getting around the fairgrounds. Each volunteer is asked to work a 2 1/2 hour shift (or several!) The following time shots are available:

• Friday, Sept. 27 - 4:00-6:30 pm

• Friday, Sept. 27 - 6:30-9:00 pm

• Saturday, Sept. 28 - 6:30-9:00 am

• Saturday, Sept. 28 - 9:00-11:30 am

• Saturday, Sept. 28 - 11:30 am-2:00 pm

If you are interested in driving a golf cart and getting to know some brothers and sisters in Christ, contact (call or text) Martin Gunawan: 574-538-8747

There are many sponsors of food booths who would love to have a helping hand setting up, preparing food prior to the Relief Sale, or working at the booth on Sale Day. Offering your services for a few hours during this time can make a difference! Contact Chris Yoder, Food Committee Board Chair, at 574-536-9654 or wovenfriendships@gmail.com if you would like to help. Volunteers are also needed in the Ten Thousand Villages and plants booths. Call 888-503-8559 or email mennonitesale@yahoo.com to volunteer.

An easy way to help is to let others know about the Sale! Having a yard sign in your yard from August to Sale Day acts as a reminder to the public and really helps to draw in crowds to the Sale. To volunteer your yard for a sign, call the Relief Sale office at 888-503-8559 or email mennonitesale@yahoo.com.