Today we at First Pres began the annual project of baking cookies to sell at the Johnny Appleseed Festival which will be held this weekend. This festival is an annual event in Fort Wayne, the grave site of John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed. It's a fun festival with lots of historic overtones and many, many goodies for sale. Organizations use this as a major fundraising opportunity. For our church it's a chance to raise money for our Day School. Our booth sells cookies - thousands of cookies. We sell molasses, oatmeal, chocolate chip and sugar cookies and snickerdoodles. Today was molasses cookie day. My favorite. We baked over 3,000 cookies in six hours and the wonderful scent of baking cookies wafted through the whole church. As our head maintenance man strolled through the area where we worked, he commented that it was too bad that "Overeaters Anonymous" was meeting upstairs today. Ah well....
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