Over the years, we've raised thousands of dollars in "free" money for the church through our Grocery Receipt Program.

Here’s how the program works: We've made arrangements with two local grocery stores (West Vancouver IGA and City Market at Park Royal). For every $5,000 in grocery receipts from their stores, they give us a $25 (or $50) gift card -- which we sell at face value to someone in the church who shops there, and the money from the sale is donated to the church. In other words: for every $5,000 in receipts, the church gets $25 (or $50) of "free" money.

Marie Bensley was originally in charge of our Grocery Receipt program -- and then she handed it over to Nora Coates for many years. When Nora retired from this role, she handed it over to our church custodian (Tom), who did it for a short time before Linda Pratt agreed to take it on in 2024. Linda sorts donated receipts for the two stores, add them up (so they are in bundles of roughly $5,000), send the packets to the store manager, and "sell" the donated gift cards.

If you shop at either of these two stores, please save your receipts! Bring them to the church and place them in the folder on the bulletin board in the stairwell. This is a great way to earn “free” money for the church!

Similarly, if you shop at either of these stores — please let Linda know if you’d occasionally be willing to purchase gift cards (at face value) for those stores, to help her convert the gift cards into cash for the church.