Church fundraiser ideas your congregation gets to play

The bake sale, the rummage sale and the spaghetti dinner come around every year. If you're looking for church fundraiser ideas that bring people together as well as raising money, here's one to add. We build a themed scavenger hunt bingo board with you, members and friends pay to play it, and 100% of the proceeds go to your cause, whether that's the mission trip or the new roof.

Every board is dealt from the same list of finds, and the first to fill five in a row calls a Tingo. It works as a fellowship event and a fundraiser at the same time.

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People cross a sunny lawn and path away from an old stone church, a toddler walking with her mother and a man with a dog.
A Let's Tingo board on a phone with church fundraiser finds marked, one row highlighted as a completed Tingo.
Hands hold a phone at a small table, seen from above, with a cup of coffee and a notebook beside it.
A fundraiser game lobby showing a QR code to join and the congregation members who are in.

How it works for your congregation

A QR code in the bulletin, on a sign in the fellowship hall or on the screen before the announcements is all it takes. People pay for the game, and that payment is their donation. They join in the app or in a browser, and they can start looking on the way out of the service.

Families can play together on the walk home, and friends can play over a whole weekend, so it reaches people who can't make it to an evening event.

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A Let's Tingo fundraiser board branded with a church's name and colors.

Church fellowship activities for a whole afternoon

After a Sunday service, at the church picnic or across a fall weekend, the board sends people around the grounds and out into the neighborhood: the cornerstone, the prayer garden, the food pantry box down the street. We write it with you, from your knowledge of your church and ours of what makes a good find, and it carries your church's name, colors and logo.

If you keep a list of church fellowship ideas for the year, this one fits almost anywhere on it.

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Church games for adults

Not every gathering is for the whole congregation. A men's breakfast, a women's retreat or the small group that meets on Wednesday evenings can have a board of its own. Church games for adults work well as a timed game: set an end date and time, like the last session of the retreat, and the game wraps up on schedule, with the most Tingos winning.

Setting a fundraiser game's end date and time.
Let's Tingo's results screen announcing the winner of a church fundraiser game and their prize.

A prize for the winner

Name a prize when you set it up, and everyone sees what they're playing for. Whoever has the most Tingos when the game ends wins it. A prize donated by a member's business, or the first plate at the next potluck, gives everyone something to aim for.

Church fundraiser ideas for your board

These are the kind of finds that make a good church scavenger hunt. Yours would be built around your own church and neighborhood.

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Around the church

  • Steeple
  • Cornerstone
  • Stained glass window
  • Choir loft
  • Baptismal font
  • Pipe organ
  • Hymn board
  • Church sign message
  • Prayer garden
  • Coffee urn
  • Welcome desk
  • Memorial bench

At the church picnic

  • Potluck casserole
  • Deviled eggs
  • Sweet tea
  • Horseshoes
  • Sack race
  • Pie table
  • Grill
  • Lawn chairs
  • Watermelon
  • Cornhole boards
  • Water balloons
  • Folding tables

Around the neighborhood

  • Food pantry box
  • Fire station
  • Mail carrier
  • Porch flag
  • Community garden
  • Bus stop
  • Corner store
  • Painted mural
  • Basketball hoop
  • Dog on a porch
  • Wind chimes
  • Neighbor waving

Let's build a board for your church

Tell us about your church: what you're raising money for, who comes through the doors, and the places nearby everyone knows. We'll come back with ideas for what a Tingo game could look like for your congregation. Let's Tingo works the same way for youth group games, fundraising events and nonprofit fundraisers, and you'll find everything else we build on our partners page.

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