Come Visit our Pumpkin Patch!
The Clinton United Methodist Church Pumpkin Patch is open!
It will be open from September 28 – October 31, 2024.
The pumpkins come from the Navajo Tribe in New Mexico via 18-wheeler trucks
and are unloaded into our playground area.
All shapes and sizes! From the very small minis and gourds,
to the very largest pumpkins you can imagine!
The Pumpkin Patch is a cherished tradition of our church.
70% of pumpkin proceeds go back to the Navajo tribe.
The remaining 30% is used for other mission projects,
such as the Shoreline Soup Kitchen and UMCOR.
The patch is open daily from12:00 noon – 6 PM.
This Pumpkin Patch Fundraiser is nationwide and was started about 40 years ago by a farmer in North Carolina who had pumpkins to sell and a church group who needed to raise money. They shook hands and agreed to work together to plant, grow, pick and ship pumpkins to other churches that also needed to raise funds. It got to be so large, they needed more space, and the Navajo Tribe of Farmington, New Mexico had lots of land, and so it grew and grew…into this very exciting mission project that we are proud to be a part of!! One of the truck drivers who delivered to us said the trucks roll into the pumpkin fields, and that’s all you can see in any direction! Pumpkins, Pumpkins, and more Pumpkins! They are loaded via conveyer belts from the fields onto the trucks, and when that truck is filled, another pulls up to take its place!
FRESH pumpkins from the fields. Nothing is better than that!
We hope to see you all at 12 Commerce Street PUMPKIN PATCH again this year!