United Congregational Church
welcomes you to the UCC-Gift-Cards program….
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“fundraising while you shop”.
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We (the Church) are selling
gift cards as a major fundraising opportunity for our church. Both the Stewardship Committee and
The Church Council reviewed and accepted this program. We have become a client of a very successful company
called The Great Lakes Scrip Center that services non-profit organizations and major US retailers through innovative scrip
(gift card) fundraising programs. The gift cards are good for groceries, gas, restaurants, hardware,
clothing, movie tickets, and just about anything you could possibly purchase from major retailers. We (the Church) buy the
gift cards from Great Lakes Scrip Center, at a discount, and you buy them from the church at full face value and redeem them
at full face value. It costs you nothing extra, and it costs the church nothing extra either! The discounts range anywhere
from 2 to 20%... this is what the church will realize from your purchases.
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To shop for your gift cards
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Just pick up a Family Order Form from Gift-Card table at church, or click the link above, fill it out and return it with your check made out
to The United Congregational Church and in one or two weeks time you can pick up your gift card(s). A complete
list of participating merchants is available at the table. -
You can also shop for you gift
cards from home on your computer –
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To register online you need to
use our enrollment code. Check with one of the Gift-Card coordinators for the code. Then go online to WWW.ShopWithScrip.com, click on create an account, and follow the instructions to register. After registering, you can browse by category, or search
for a specific retailer .Then create your own custom order. When you check out you will not pay online.
Simply print out a copy of the order conformation and
bring it (along with a check) to the UCC-Gift-Card table on Sunday morning and in one or two weeks you can pick up your gift
cards at the same table.
- So, come to the UCC-GIFT-CARDS table after the Sunday worship service to learn
more about our new fund raising program and maybe even try it out by placing
an order… (great as Christmas Gift Cards for friends and family).
We are all very excited to be able to bring this program to our church and create a novel source of revenue
for the church that involves all of us. There are many other churches throughout the country that are, or are planning to
become, part of this fund raising system. As we begin this endeavor we will be ordering gift cards twice a month.
As our success grows and UCC-GIFT-CARDS become more popular we hope to make them available every week.
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Happy shopping from your UCC-GIFT-CARDS coordinators
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Ted Fecenko and Roy Heget.
