OCUUC May 2008 Goods and Services Auction

These events offer an important chance to help the church financially and set up much of members and friends social calendars. Or you might find someone selling banana bread using their grandma’s favorite recipe or willing to make hand made Christmas stockings for your kids or willing to take care of your dog for a week so you don’t have to use a kennel.

Highlights

The people who attend the auctions have a good time, and enjoy good food.
We raise money towards the Church’s operating expenses.
Those who attend get something direct and tangible in return for a donation to the Church.
Many of the events offered for auction are a great way to find people in the church with similar interests, and a wonderful way to share your hobbies, interests and special places with others.
Often the events purchased get you to places and activities that you might not ordinarily go to or engage in because you are unaware of them.
The events offered at the auctions provide important social interactions to help build our community through building personal relationships.
Both the buyers as well as those offering items for purchase achieve satisfaction knowing that they are helping our Church community.

For those who may have never attended an auction, the mechanics are simple. To simplify the record keeping and make sure we have the necessary information to send you a bill after the auction, everyone gets a paddle with an identifying number when they arrive. Some couples get individual numbers and others choose to get one.

There are two types of items offered each time. Some items are sold live during the event, and others “poster items” are laid out on tables with a fixed price and often fixed number of spots available. You put your bidder number on the number of lines you want to purchase. A couple will use two lines. The poster items are first come/first served until the available slots are filled in on the sheet.

The live auction process is just as easy. When something of interest comes up you raise your paddle. If more people are interested than there are spaces available, the auctioneer keeps raising the price until enough people lower their paddles to match the available spaces.

Click here for May 2008 Auction details.

Plan to attend the OCUUC Spring Auction on Saturday, May 17, at 5 p.m.

Orange Coast
Unitarian Universalist Church
1259 Victoria Street
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
Phone: (949) 646-4652
Directions to OCUUC
email: info@ocuuc.org
Office hours: Sun-Thu 9:30AM-1PM

OCUUC is a member congregation of the
Pacific Southwest District of the
Unitarian Universalist Association