Cut off for donations – Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Silent Auction Sunday, October 13 - Sunday, 20, 2024

Live Auction Friday October 25, 2024

• 5:30 pm doors open
• 7:00-7:30 pm Small, in person Silent Auction
• 8:00 pm Live Auction

Our Annual Service Auction is an electrifying event filled with fun, that also happens to be our biggest FUNdraiser of the year! It usually raises enough to pay all UUFN expenses for 1 month.

There are no “things,” no real items like at a yard sale. Instead, you ponder, “What service can I offer for others?”

Donations of time, talent, and treasure provide wonderful opportunities for connection - intimate dinners, raucus game nights, exploring a salt marsh, learning how to knit socks, eating delicious homemade foods, rides to the airport and much more.

Descriptions of offerings are regularly updated online, and a small catalog is used at the auction for people to bid on “Silent” or “Live” items.  Our long time auctioneer and juggler, Mike Hoffman, will do anything to up the bidding.

Food, soft drinks, wine and beer are available, and FREE child care.

Each auction has a theme, and many enjoy dressing and acting to fit the theme.

You can help with publicity, use the computer to enter donations, create the catalog, bid sheets, invoices, and thank you letters to donors, decorate, greet bidders and give them their bid number, help donors compose item descriptions, be in skits, set up/clean up and more.

And with only TWO committee meetings over 3 months’ time – the most efficient committee at UUFN!

Past offerings have included:

• “It’s a Dog Party,”
• “Microbrew Tasting and Dinner,”
• “Buy a Sermon,”
• “Pick Music for the Choir,”
• “Authentic Nigerian (and many other countries) Dinner,”
• “Pottery Lessons for Children,”
• "Family Pool Party,”
• “A Tribute to Led Zeppelin,”
• “It Was a Dark and Stormy Night,”
• “Day Trip to UU Churches,”
• “Vegetarian Iranian Dinner,”
• “Comedy Workshop,” “
• A Night at the Opera,”
• “Mothers and Daughters Kayaking,”
• “Lavender Tea Party,”
• “Overcome Your Fear of Filo,”
• “Raking Leaves,”
• Your Very Own Item Here!