1. Reformation's Black Nativity Meets Kwanzaa Jazz & Poetry Candlelight Service, like the original 1950s Jazz Vespers created by John Garcia Gensel-Lutheran Pastor to New York City's Jazz community, is an emergency fundraiser for our church-that serves as the central gathering space of our outreach to the City's Africana artists and activists communities. Specifically, we are challenged to meet essential boiler repairs for this coming Chicago's winter.
Here, we need financial help with regard to securing either LSTC'S Chapel space or Augustana Lutheran-Hyde Park's Sanctuary in the form of one-or more-of the following three options:
A) an in-kind service as a part of either LSTC'S or Augustana Lutheran-Hyde Park's partnership and outreach to the Metro Chicago Synod's South Side Conference of African Descent Congregations-as in the past;
B) allow access to either space on a consignment basis i.e., deferring payment until we receive our gross ticket sales receipts via brownpapertickets.com;
C) that the financing of either LSTC or Augustana Lutheran-Hyde Park space use be done via either maximally underwriting, thru ELCA African Descent Ministries Programming Desk, or its minimally guarantying space use payment-with the proviso that 20% of the net receipts of our event go to the reorganizing Chicago Chapter of the African Descent Lutheran Association; or
D) any combination thereof.
2. About our fundraiser plan.
2.1 According to Bob Berridge, LSTC VP of Operations, their Chapel seats 350-400 people-depending on the seating arrangement. Alternatively, we estimate that Augustana Lutheran seats about 300.
2.2 Our fund raising goal is to raise from $12K to $14k gross.
2.3 Our strategy is to market our event via brownpapertickets.com, itself a popular online ticket sales organization with its own built-in promotional capacity, at $20 per person. Note: We are talking here of doing two services with a goal of attracting 300 people per service via a vigorous electronic marketing campaign.
2.3 Reformation is providing the production. We provide the performance script (inclusive of our Jazz music ministry, the selected Langston Hughes body of poetry as well as actor/readers).
2.4) Reformation's team will also supply online outreach complimentary to that of brownpapertickets.com. More, similar cooperation from ADLA Program Desk, LSTC Online Media, ADLA National Organization, and ADLA Chicago Chapter-reorganizing have the combined capacity to help reasonably meet our fundraiser goal.
2.4 Finally, Reformation's Black Nativity Meets Kwanzaa Jazz & Poetry Candlelight Service should be seen for what it is: i.e., a much needed African American ministries contribution to the multicultural project of either LSTC or Augustana Lutheran-Hyde Park.
Respectfully submitted: Rev. Joel Washington (Khunanpu Sangoma) for Black Nativity Meets Kwanzaa Jazz & Poetry Candlelight Service and Reformation Church Chicago ("Young Barack Obama's community organizing sanctuary"), 12-2-15 Updated.
2. About our fundraiser plan.
2.1 According to Bob Berridge, LSTC VP of Operations, their Chapel seats 350-400 people-depending on the seating arrangement. Alternatively, we estimate that Augustana Lutheran seats about 300.
2.2 Our fund raising goal is to raise from $12K to $14k gross.
2.3 Our strategy is to market our event via brownpapertickets.com, itself a popular online ticket sales organization with its own built-in promotional capacity, at $20 per person. Note: We are talking here of doing two services with a goal of attracting 300 people per service via a vigorous electronic marketing campaign.
2.3 Reformation is providing the production. We provide the performance script (inclusive of our Jazz music ministry, the selected Langston Hughes body of poetry as well as actor/readers).
2.4) Reformation's team will also supply online outreach complimentary to that of brownpapertickets.com. More, similar cooperation from ADLA Program Desk, LSTC Online Media, ADLA National Organization, and ADLA Chicago Chapter-reorganizing have the combined capacity to help reasonably meet our fundraiser goal.
2.4 Finally, Reformation's Black Nativity Meets Kwanzaa Jazz & Poetry Candlelight Service should be seen for what it is: i.e., a much needed African American ministries contribution to the multicultural project of either LSTC or Augustana Lutheran-Hyde Park.
Respectfully submitted: Rev. Joel Washington (Khunanpu Sangoma) for Black Nativity Meets Kwanzaa Jazz & Poetry Candlelight Service and Reformation Church Chicago ("Young Barack Obama's community organizing sanctuary"), 12-2-15 Updated.
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