Greetings from a hot and summery Cape Town!

My church is raising funds for a major building programme and I was thinking of something along the lines of http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ - but selling bricks in a wall (onscreen graphic, not physical), with each brick linked to the donor's site (personal or business). Now if I go the GDI route, I'd be more than happy to sponsor the main site selling the 'bricks'.
Donors could just buy a brick for a fixed one-off donation. The brick could either have their name (unless they choose to remain anonymous) or it could link to their website. (The link or name would be on one of those mini-popups that appear when you hover a cursor over the brick - the bricks themselves could be tiny.)

And if they don't have a website? Funny you should ask ... - they can simply sign up for one and automatically support the church every month. (And me too!)

I guess the one-off bricks (without GDI site) would need to have a time limit, say 6 months or a year, so that the wall could remain a dynamic source of both income and information about members of the community and parish.  If I'm looking for a plumber or computer boffin, I'd much rather search my church's fundraising site for a suitable person than the newspaper.  And a family could buy a brick and link it to its family site, online photo album or blog - so we could all get to know each other better by browsing the fundraising wall!

I have no connection with milliondollarhomepage.com, just think it's an excellent idea that can be adapted in many ways.  I don't have the technical know-how to set this up, but no doubt it can be done. Can anyone tell me whether the 100 MB available on GDI will be enough?

Any further ideas before I approach the minister?

Wow, Bob - that's excellent! Five signups per year really isn't unreasonable 
- and though your downline may not all sign up five, you can sign up a few
extras yourself to make up for those.  I joined GDI last year, but haven't put
much time into it. This year I'm making it happen - and that pension plan idea
is a great incentive!

All the best
Carola