Celebrate Service Day

The last Wednesday of September we take the day off from classes here at GC and do service work in the community. We choose this date because it is right before the Michiana Mennonite Relief Sale and there is a good deal of work that we can do to help prepare for that event. For several years I have been the faculty person to go with a group to Pleasant View Mennonite Church where the group helps prepare things for that church's cookie booth for the Relief Sale. We spend the morning setting up tables, putting ingredient labels on plates, and packaging cookies. After lunch we spend a couple of hours decorating cookies for the sale. It's a fun day! :) Here are a few photos...

Here's the packaging assembly line hard at work!

These cookies were all decorated by our group, I made the rainbow one that says "Love", the butterfly, the tree, the sunshine, and the spiral design.

Someone made these boy & girl cookies decorated like Amish people that were absolutely adorable!

Here is the entire group - we are each holding our favorite cookie that we decorated.