What does used clothes, homemade cookies, coffee, and homemade donuts have to do with each other? It means one very busy week and one busy Saturday. I will tell you. The mission was blessed with two very large donation and alot of smaller donations of clothes before Christmas. Praise the Lord! Before we left for Christmas vacation in Arizona the plan was to open up the gym on a Saturday, January 12, 9:00am to 4:00pm. We plan to set up tables and lay out the clothes on them. We would also have coffee for the people too. Well, Mark and I thought this might be a good time to make homemade donuts, to share with our Navajo friends. In case we couldn't keep up we also made cookies. All week long I was sorting clothes. Not everyone donates appropriate clothes and I have found out over the months we have been here, that Khaki pants and corduroy don't go very well, if at all. I also sorted to have men's, ladies, teen boy's, Jr. girl's, children boy's, children girl's, and babies. The clothes that are dirty, holes, not appropriate, stain, etc, we pass on the blessing to Good Will. Nothing goes to waste.
Friday night Mark made 4 batches of his no-bake cookies and I made a double batch of choc. chip with peppermint candy. We also pulled 3 things of cookies I had frozen.
Saturday morning up at 6:00am
Time to make the donuts!
Over a week of sorting, thing start to get a little blurry!
Shoes!
And more shoes!
Coats!
And more Coats!
Clothes!
And more clothes!
Some of the tables were filled 2x!
My helper Bonnie!
My other helper Mary Lou!
Bonnie's husband Ralph
AD came to visit.
Three trays of cookies!
Back to the donuts!
Glazing the donuts!
No, safety was not the reason Mark fried them here. Besides I don't think the fire extinguisher is up to date! We just kept flipping breakers, where we had planned on frying the donuts.
We had a good turnout. everyone was happy with the clothes they found. They enjoyed the cookies, donuts, and coffee.
God is Good!
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