BEDFORD – Hillcrest Christian Church Women’s Ministry hosted its annual auction this past weekend, and raised $4,960 from the auctioning of 169 items.
The auction items were donated by church members and included a wide variety of items. Many were made by those who donated them, others included items bought from retailers.
A large charcuterie board made of red maple wood and handcrafted by church member Steve Hart racked up the most money with its bids, raking in $215 dollars, but it seems trifling next to a bottle of homemade maple syrup that sold for $50 the same night.
Some of the other auction items included holiday home decor, homemade apple butter that sold for $45, persimmon pudding for $40, and containers of homemade caramels that sold for $30 apiece.
The first item up for bid to start the friendly competition amongst the women was a beautiful, ceramic Christmas village set, which brought $60 and will certainly uplift any home for the holidays.
Hillcrest Christian Church located in Bedford, has been hosting this auction for 5 years, and happens annually around the same time in November, just before the Holidays kick into full swing. It ran from 6 p.m. until roughly 9:30 p.m. with 67 assigned bid numbers, suggesting a healthy amount of bidders.
Hillcrest Christian Church member Roxanne Oliver was in charge of the event, and she said that the auction is one of the church’s “most popular and biggest attended” events that stem from the women’s ministry. This auction not only raises money for their causes each year, but it also provides a time of fellowship for the women.
Hillcrest Christian Church has made updating and remodeling their facility one of their focuses for the last several years. The funds from this auction will help cover the costs associated with updating the church’s restrooms. As the church prioritizes updates to the facility, these restrooms will soon reflect a more modern construction to mirror the rest of the church’s improvements.
Improvements to the restrooms include replacing handmade stalls with updates to items such as the toilets. The raised funds will also allow the church to transform one of the restrooms into a unisex restroom with multiple stalls, allowing more members to use it at the same time.
Roxanne Oliver said there’s no set start date for the remodeling yet, but once it begins it shouldn’t take more than a few weekends. Any unused proceeds from the restroom updates, since Roxanne explained that “more than enough” was raised in the auction, will be used in other ministry endeavors, classroom supplies, and any other charitable services in need.
“It’s a great time,” Roxanne said, “and we look forward to it every year.”
Hillcrest Christian Church located at 1130 Hillcrest Rd, Bedford, invites and welcomes anyone to attend next year’s auction and the other services that are provided weekly.
Hillcrest Christian Church believes everybody is welcome, nobody is perfect and anything is possible.
If you are considering a new place of worship or a relocation to the area, they would love to have you be a guest.
You can find out more information about Hillcrest Christian Church online at https://www.hillcrestchristianchurch.org/ or check them out on Facebook.
