How Your Bible Fellowship Can
Organize a Display at the Street Fair
April 13, 2008 9:00am - 1:00 pm
Why do a display at the Street Fair
When your Bible Fellowship has a display at the Street Fair to celebrate with the church its global outreach work, this encourages the church because the regular people of Casas get to see what their gifts and prayers have accomplished. It also gives vision to other Bible Fellowships that they could do what your Department is doing - having a relationship with a missionary or sending people on short-term trips. This page is to help you smoothly organize a booth for your Bible Fellowship to highlight that at the Street Fair. (Click on the blue links below for more ideas.)
Ideas on how to do a display at the Street Fair:
If you are organizing a booth for your Bible Fellowship, you can do any of the things below yourself - or you can invite others from your Department to help you:
brainstorm how to make thae booth fun and interactive - decorate it and have a fun game (if you want help, ask a creative person in your Department to design the booth)
get some ethnic snack and/or inexpensive artifact to give away (if you want, ask a person in your Department with the spiritual gift of shopping to buy these)
decorate the booth Saturday April 12 between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm and tear it down Sunday April 13, after the Fair at 1:00 pm (snack lunches provided - if you tell us you're coming) (if you want, ask a creative person in your Department to do the decorating and a couple of behind-the-scenes people to help tear it down)
be at the booth the day of the Fair ready to talk to people who come by the booth (if you want, ask some people in your Department with people skills to each take a time slot)
09:00am-10:30am
10:30am-12:00pm
12:00pm-1:00pm
Ideas for making the display fun and interactive
You will be given a canopy/shaded area, a table and two chairs. Extra chairs and table are available upon request with registration.
Photos - email Ari your digital photos (or call her at 878-1116) and Global Outreach can make 11x17 color printouts
Partner with a Casas Trip Leader if there is one leading a trip to work with your missionary
Photocopy the global worker's latest newsletter (you can make black and white photocopies in the Cottonwood workroom at Casas)
Make a sign-up sheet for people who want more information
The booths with the most people have a simple but fun, interactive game like you'd have in a kid's carnival - fishing pole over sheet, throw bean bag through hole, spinner, bob for apples, etc. Global Outreach has a Wheel-of-Fortune type wheel one booth can borrow.
Put out a map showing where the global worker serves - maybe available from an old National Geographic (which you may get at Bookman's)
Ask the global worker for a sheet on how to pray for the ministry
Show names and photos of the people groups being reached
Ideas for the senses - CDs, photos on magnets, incense, music, artwork
Do something at the booth that missionaries do on the field
Ideas for where to buy ethnic snacks or trinkets
GO will reimburse you for up to $30 for design/decoration of the booth and $20 more for supplies for an interactive game
For reimbursement, save and turn in your receipts at the Street Fair Information booth or to Ann C or Faye D at the Casas church office
ask your global worker or short-term person to bring something (if they have room in their suitcase)
for Mediterranean items try the store inside of Ali Baba,
for Asian items try Sandyi Oriental Market, Grantstone Supermarket, Mabuhay Filipino Food Store, or Moan's Oriental Market,
for Latin American items try Tropical Foods or Food City)
Have a 30-second phrase ready like:
"We're just a regular Bible Fellowship, but we're privileged to have a relationship with Mike and Mary who are Casas missionaries. We're even sending people form our class on a short-term trip to help Mike and Mary this summer. Your gifts to Global Outreach help Mike and Mary share Jesus and teach English with Mus1im people in Swaziland. "
Teach a few words in the language of the culture for which you serve, e.g. hello, etc.