Event Story: Fundraising with Spaghetti

Holy Nativity Lutheran Church organized a Spaghetti dinner fundraiser for their church on October 16. The fundraiser is to help repair the parking lot and roof.

The church has been doing this fundraiser for the last 15 years and every year it is the members of the church that do all the cooking and prepping. It ran from 4 to 8 p.m. in the church’s dining hall. There is also a lovely bake sale that goes on in the library and those baked goods are also made by members of the church. They sell wine and soda to go with the meal. Before you get the meal, they start you off with an amazing Italian type salad and after the meal they give you a choice of amazing deserts.

*Holy Nativity is highly appreciated church among the community of Kenosha because the church always has something nice and fun for anyone of any age to do. The church has been around since the early 1950s and is basically a family to anyone that wants to join. Fundraisers help the church interact with the community and they love doing it every year.

“People from all over Kenosha and sometimes other counties around come to our spaghetti dinner because they know they are spending money on a good cause and that we welcome anyone. Sometimes we get new members to our church through our fundraisers,” states Dawn Knese, secretary of Holy Nativity Lutheran Church for about 8 years.

Donna Simmons, has been a member of the church for about 30 years and is in charge of the whole fundraiser. She started this fundraiser when the church was about to close its doors because they couldn’t get enough donations during services.

“I thought starting a spaghetti dinner fundraiser would be cool because a lot of people like food and will usually come to try it out. Our town is pretty small so it is easy for word to get around and just like that we got a lot of people that year and each year it keeps on growing,” states Simmons.

Holy Nativity relies on the fundraisers they do every year to help keep their church open. They have Bake Sales at least once every month to help with little repairs. While the Spaghetti Dinner and the May Rummage sale each year help repair the big things with the church. The next big fundraiser is in May so, come on down and see what this church has to offer.