Saturday September 25 - 7:00am - 2:00pm
Harvest Festival is an ages-old tradition here at Orange, which is the biggest source of funding for the many missions we support.
Essentially, Harvest Festival is to be a family-fun day here at the church, complete with
children’s games, moonwalks, crafts, food, yard sale, auction, and did I say food? There is
something for everyone. The day begins with a hot home-cooked country breakfast, and then
moves to fun and games for the kids, and lots of shopping for the rest of us. All followed by a
lunch and the auction.
Schedule of Events
- Breakfast 7:00-10:00: A piping hot country breakfast of eggs, grits, biscuts, sausage, ham, and bacon
- Yard Sale 7:00-11:00 The largest multi-family yard sale in Chapel Hill with anything and everything you can imagine
- Craft Vendors 7:00-1:00: Area crafters will be selling their beautiful handmade goods
- Sweet Shoppe 7:00-11:00: A shop full of homemade treats, from pies, cakes, jams, jellies, to pickles and stews.
- Silent Auction 8:00-11:00: Tables full of nice items to bid on; winning bids will be announced at the end of the live auction
- Children's Fun and Games 7:30-11:30: A safe area for the children to play fun carnival games and win prizes while the parents shop. There is also cotton candy, popcorn, and inflatables!
- Lunch 11:30-1:00: Our youth prepare a great hotdog and hamburger lunch which includes all the trimmings
- Live Auction 12:15-2:00: Rounding out a day of fun is the live auction full of great items and services
Artist Vendor Applications for Harvest Festival
If you are a local artist and want to sell your wares at our Harvest Festival, we invite you to apply for booth space. We are dedicated to community outreach and hope to invite more of the public to our festival by offering a variety of local crafts and artisan items for sale. Click here to download an application, and thank you for considering Orange United Methodist Church's Harvest Festival as one of your festivals for this year.
Yard Sale - We need your "Stuff" and we need Volunteers!
Ready, Set, De-Clutter, Donate & Volunteer! In a few short weeks, OUMC will host the largest multi-family yard sale in Chapel Hill on Saturday, Sept. 25th-- starting at 7:00 a.m. until everything is gone -- as part of the annual Harvest Festival. In 2009 we raised more than $2,500 with the Yard Sale – and this year we hope to raise $3,000!
We want your "stuff!" This is a plea for each of you to look around your home, garage and office and put the clutter, stuff, and extra things you can’t bear to part with (but really should) into a box or bag and bring it to the church Wed. 9/22 through Fri. 9/24 at 5 p.m. to help us stock the shelves of the Yard Sale. Your donations directly help improve the bottom line of our profits from the Harvest Fest and the Yard Sale! If you have a talent for sorting or merchandising -- or just enjoy Yard Sales….please volunteer!
Items we happily accept at the Yard Sale
- Infant, toddler, children’s, men's and women's clothing
- Shoes
- Coats
- Household items
- Furniture
- Electronics
- Appliances
- Sheets/Towels
- Kitchen items
- Lawn furniture
- Tools
- Books
- Movies (VHS and DVD)
- Magazines – only in bundles of a full year’s issues
- Toys & games
- Home décor items
- Computer equipment
- Pet items
- Sporting goods
- Paper and plastic shopping bags to use to "bag up" items for customers
We cannot and DO NOT accept at the Yard Sale
- Children’s/infant automobile car seats (for legal & safety reasons)
- Mattresses
- Soiled, dirty or stained clothing or bedding items
- Items that don’t work or are incomplete
- Household or hazardous waste (no ˝ used-paint, thinners, chemicals or used light bulbs)
If you have questions about items or would like to volunteer, please call Leanna Murphy Dono at 919-381-1952 or send an email to MURPHYLK2@YAHOO.COM
please contact the festival Chairs Patrick and Shannon Jones
at 828-773-7868 or e-mail them at oumcmissions@yahoo.com
