On a Sunday afternoon, many of our Affinity Group members gathered in a kitchen giving rise to 240 home baked cookies, yes that’s 20 dozen! Six cookies were lovingly packed into each decorated bag with a written note expressing care and good wishes. Their childhood passions for baking, writing and art converged with their willingness to give back. Then on Friday evening, one of the cookie bakers packed these 40 bags of sweets into her car and delivered them to the homeless at Operation Night Watch. She unloaded the goods and before returning from parking her car, the prizes were claimed and consumed. These homeless adults, hungry for many things, grew back into the eager children who know that food prepared with love tastes better.
Karen Beal
Community Engagement Affinity Group Facilitator
1 comment:
So true, what a compelling expression of love. So many of my fondest memories of youth are wrapped in the smell of freshly homemade cookies warm from the oven.
Last weekend I tabled the Boomer Lifestyle Expo. One of the vendors was Monastery Mustard http://www.monasterymustard.com/mustard_shop/ ; a group of nuns who make and sell mustard to support a homelss shelter in Mt Angel Oregon. When I asked them how a nun makes mustard they replied "With Love". So even a food as spicy as mustard can spread the love.
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