Lifeline Christian Mission Turns Quarters into Global Aid
Lifeline Christian Mission is inviting families, churches, youth groups, and businesses to help ship donated food and ministry supplies through its Quarter Back Challenge. Participants collect quarters in candy tubes to help cover shipping costs for supplies headed to Haiti.
- Lifeline can send a pound of supplies for 25 cents.
- Each filled tube holds 56 quarters, totaling $14.
- The challenge helps fund shipments of donated food and ministry supplies to Haiti.
By Jennifer Taylor
Lifeline Christian Mission (Westerville, OH) is making it easy for families, churches, youth groups, and businesses to give healthy food to people around the world.
Lifeline is able to send a pound of supplies for 25 cents, so it is encouraging groups to donate quarters with its “Quarter Back Challenge.”
To participate, groups order Challenge Kits filled with mini-tubes of candy, labels, ribbon, and instructions. Each group sells the candy, fills the empty tubes with quarters, and mails a check for the total to Lifeline. Fifty-six quarters—$14—fit in a tube.
Lifeline began the program as a way to finance the shipment of 240,000 pounds of donated food and supplies at its shipping warehouse. “With each 40,000 quarters, or $10,000, collected, we can ship a 40,000-pound container of ministry supplies to Haiti,” the ministry shares.
Lifeline has extended the challenge until the 2012 Super Bowl, creating an easy and fun way to tie in a ministry initiative with the big Sunday. Learn more at www.lifeline.org.
