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This year we have chosen SERVICE as our theme for our conference. To make this successful, people need to consider a type of service that you can offer up to be auctioned off on Saturday evening. The service you offer can be something you bring with you to put in the silent auction, or a service you could do at a later time that will be “sold” in the live auction on Saturday evening.

Please look at the lists of suggestions for “Silent” and “Live” Service Auction Ideas to help you come up with an idea for a service you can offer in the auction as we would like everyone to bring/offer some type of service.

TO MAKE THIS SUCCESSFUL, WE NEED EVERYONE TO PARTICIPATE.

 

 “Silent” and “Live” Service Auction Ideas
Be as creative as you’d like!
Items brought to the conference will be entered in the Silent Auction.
All other services offered will be entered in the Live Auction.

Examples of items that can be donated:

Silent Auction

  • home-made cookies, squares, cakes, rolls...
  • home-made craft items such as soap, art, knitting, sewn items, gift baskets...
  • Home-made Jewelry
  • A Painting done by you
  • Pottery
  • FHE Kit (lesson, treat, etc.)
  • Home-made Bread
  • Hand-crafted greeting cards
  • Jars of jam, jelly, salsa, antipasto
  • Vegetables from your garden
  • Flower arrangement/table center
  • Holiday crafts/decorations: Halloween, Christmas etc.
  • Scrapbook kits/pre-made pages
  • Cinnamon buns
  • Home made candles
  • Woodworking
  • Home-made chocolates
  • How to videos – home repair, bike tune-up, car repair, planting a garden, rock climbing, etc.
  • Home-made pie
  • Pre-planned party kit – theme and decorations included (singles committee will outbid anyone for this item!!)
  • List of ideas for fireside speakers/topics (singles committee will outbid for this item as well!!)
  • plans/ideas for activities (this is your chance to tell us what you want – the singles committee will bid high on these items!!)
  • organize a hike for a group

Live Auction

  • consultation for interior design
  • Ironing for 10 shirts
  • sewing lesson- once a week or a 3 hour session
  • 1 hour of mending
  • computer set-up/repair
  • 1 hour dance lesson
  • 2 hours yard work (rake leaves, mow lawn, weed garden, etc)
  • Shovel snow in winter
  • Put up Christmas lights in the fall
  • Birthday or specialty cake
  • Dinner (cooked and then dropped off or with a group)
  • Fridge cleaning
  • Window washing
  • 6 free foils from a hair dresser
  • haircut
  • Car wash/detail
  • Ethnic dinner
  • Carpet cleaning
  • Super nanny services
  • Christmas-present wrapping
  • Art lesson
  • Professional family photo
  • 2 hrs genealogy work
  • Reflexology or reiki treatment
  • Pet sitting/pet walking
  • Painting walls or a fence
  • Knitting lessons
  • FHE treats for a month
  • Bike repair/tune-up
  • Wedding cake

Services can also be offered in teams.
Get together with a friend or two and offer a service!!

These are only ideas, so use your imagination and your talents and have some fun!!!

 

Disclaimer:

When offering up items for auction or when bidding on items, please consider the nature of the offer and whether or not you would be comfortable with how it would be delivered. For example, if you do not want to give out your address to anyone else, then we suggest you do not bid on service, such as yardwork, that would require someone come to your home. Please be sensible in this regard and also consider other ways that a service could be offered or obtained, such as cooking dinner for someone and having the missionaries over at the same time or dropping the dinner off in disposable containers. If you are thoughtful about this, then there will be no need to be concerned about anything but having fun and getting to know more fun and interesting people through service!

 

Friday Agenda (Bow valley Chapel)

  • Our "mixer activities" starts at 7:30 pm and those activities will help to earn a lot of extra “money” to be able to spend at the auction. They won’t be the same old boring mixer activities so come prepared to have some fun!
  • Dress casual
  • Light refreshment
  • Dance at 9:00 pm

Saturday Agenda

  • 9:00 am - Brunch (Bow Valley Chapel)

  • 10:00 am - Your choice of one of the following activities:.

    • Rafting on the Bow River - Buses leave at 10:00 sharp from Bow Valley Chapel to Bowness Park for rafting.  Rafting goes from 10:30 – 2:00 pm

    • Service project – making sandwiches for the Drop-In Centre

    • Hiking on the Douglas Fir Trail – 2.5 Km trail on the edge of Edworthy Park

    • Fort Calgary – group tour through the Fort to learn about Calgary’s history

    • Taste of Calgary – at Eau Claire Market sampling foods from various Calgary restaurants

    • Movie – (showing in one of the room at Bow Valley building)

  • 5:30 pm - Dinner [Bow Valley Chapel] (Sunday dress).

    NOTE: A silent auction will be happening around the dinner time, and a live auction will occur following dinner. These will be your opportunities to obtain some really great service from the fun people you have met this weekend!
  • 8:30 pm - Dance (Sunday dress).

Sunday Agenda (South Institute Building)

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  • 10:00 am - Sacrament, special guest speakers.

  • 12:00 pm - Lunch