2025 Habitat for Humanity Dinner and Auction


2026 Update: The dinner is even earlier this year, on February 28, 2026! See the latest post here


2025 Post: It's time for my 2025 Habitat for Humanity Dinner and Auction post! Our early St. Patrick's Day Corned Beef dinner this year will be held Saturday. March 8, 2025 from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm at Samuel United Church of Christ in Clayton, Missouri. We should have plenty of food (including desserts) and we are hoping the warmer weather holds up after a couple miserably cold and snowy weeks in February.

The auction is on the new updated BiddingOwl site, and I am happy to say I am not the technical support for the auction site this year. The auction just opened and runs until the day after our dinner, on Sunday, March 9, 2025. All proceeds from both the dinner and the auction go to support the St. Louis Habitat for Humanity location which our church has been supporting for about 20 years. 

I had to post this so my 2023 post from the old auction was not the first post on my blog!

FINAL RESULTS:

Our dinner ended up raising over $8,700 and the auction earned another $4,100 all to Habitat. Another successful fundraising year!

Location: 320 N Forsyth Blvd, Clayton, MO 63105, USA

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