Success

Our Piece Maker group decided to try a pie auction. We asked for donations a couple of weeks ago and hoped we would have enough for a successful auction. We are a small congregation and our Piece Maker group is very small also. Larry and I set up a couple of tables Saturday afternoon to hold the pies. I made 2 cherry cobblers and 2 Heath Bar pies. We put a starting price of $5. We were so happy to see those two tables fill up with pastries. We had a total of 32 homemade pies to sell!! It was a silent auction and we gave everyone 15 minutes after Sunday school to have fun bidding against each other. A few of the pies brought $25 each. We sold out in the time allotted and everyone was excited about their homemade goodies that they purchased. We are so happy that our church family supports these kind of fundraisers. When we counted the money we were thrilled to see that we had made $484!!! Don't you just love fundraisers??? You ask people to donate food and then ask them to buy it back. That is a perfect example of Grace....which happens to be our study topic this month. We are asked to catch someone showing Grace and then put it on an index card on the bulletin board. I think my church family is a perfect example.
Lucky for us, JoAnn's has fleece on sale so I will be shopping next weekend!