Below are just a few ideas to get you thinking. For more ideas and help to run a local event - please contact your Bible Society regional representative. They will be delighted to hear from you.
Table Quiz
You will need a large room/hall and a quizmaster – usually someone who simply knows too much trivia! Invite teams of 4-6 people to enter setting an entrance fee for each table and explaining what the proceeds will be used for. Have a small prize for the winning team (chocolate is usually good!). Tea/coffee & biscuits go down well during a short interval.
Auction of Promises
Find volunteers to willingly carry out a chore for a friend. Chores can be anything from an evening’s baby-sitting to walking the dog for a week, to washing the car…whatever you come up with! Set an evening aside and invite everyone you know. Set up a stage and bring the volunteers up one at a time, have them stand while an announcer declares their ‘Promise’ e.g. ‘Simon promises to mow your lawn this summer. Let the bidding start at $15…’ It is even more fun if the volunteers dress in a way representing their promise! You could conclude a promise to cook a meal from the project country. Make sure the ‘host’ explains the reason for the event.
Sponsored Read-a-thon
Your group could decide to read Scripture aloud for a certain number of hours. Draw up a sponsor sheet with an explanation of the project on it and collect sponsorships for each minute or 5 minutes of reading. If 10 people read for 15 minutes each, that will be 2 ½ hours. You could even read some sections in another language!? The read-a-thon would be a great follow-up to the handwritten Bible. Write it...read it...and give it! There are all sorts of things you could be sponsored for – sponsored silence, stay awake, walk, fast, marathon, music making...etc.
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