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Online Bidding with Greater Giving


What You Can Expect

This year’s auction will use Greater Giving Online Bidding – allowing for a paperless bidding system. You will bid using your smartphone or tablet on silent auction items. Also, you can easily track Packages by “following” their activity without having to continuously return to a table or bid sheet. 

Online Bidding laptop and mobile side by side with menu.

How to Mobile Bid with Greater Giving Online Bidding

  1. Register your mobile number and credit card information on our registration page in advance of the event or upon arrival.
  2. When the auction is open, you will receive an automated ‘Welcome’ text with your bidder link.
  3. After clicking the link in the text, begin searching for packages by name, number, or category
  4. Select the package you wish to bid on.
  5. You can Bid the next increment or Bid More than the next increment
  6. If you choose to Bid More you can choose to set your Max Bid. If your max bid is the highest, the system will automatically bid in your favor until you are outbid or until the silent auction closes. If your bid is lower than the highest max bid on that package, you will be prompted to enter a higher bid.
  7. To purchase a package at the Buy Now price, select the Buy button.
  8. To "watch" a package, select the star icon on the package.
  9. To make a donation, select the Donation button on your home screen and choose a preset amount or select the Custom Amount button to enter the amount you wish to donate.
  10. If you’re out-bid at any point before the silent auction closes, you will receive a text message.
  11. To view packages you are bidding on, click the menu button and select Bids.
  12. To view packages you are watching, click the menu button and select Favorites.
  13. Once the auction closes, the guest with the highest bid will win.
  14. Under the Bids area you can check your winning packages.

Celebrating 75 Years

“...let there be light.”


In the beginning…..

The year was 1944, and change was taking place in the United States; technology was advancing and culture evolving.  But was that change going in the right direction?  A government mandate in Oregon had just passed requiring that children continue education until the age of 16.  An 8th Grade education was no longer enough.  The fear for parents then was the same as it is now.  With the majority of their day inside a building, who would be influencing these children?  Would parents leave it to a public school system to shape their children’s lives, the very same  system that one day would eventually kick God out of the schools, teach a creation without a Creator, and remove the Artist’s signature from His own masterpiece?  And so, a vision was born...a foundation was laid, a private Chrisitan school, Western Mennonite, was created that would stand as  a light in the darkness for future generations. 

If you look at Western’s first logo, you’ll see fir trees, a lamp, and the Bible, and a passage that states...  “Thy word is a lamp.”


For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.  (2 Cor 4:6, NASB) 



The founders of Western Mennonite who did not toil in vain, saw the future accurately.  In a world ever pulling away from God and biblical values, Western has fought to be different.   

As we commemorate Western’s History, we have chosen a theme of being Light in the Darkness.  In a world driven by fear, anxiety, anger, and selfishness, it is a fantastic opportunity for the body of Christ to be the light, a beacon in the darkness, and to remember that Western still stands on a solid foundation, Jesus Christ.



Then Jesus again spoke to them saying, “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”  (John 8:12  NASB)