Hola familia,
On December 22nd the Willow Chicago choir is going to Cook County Prison to serve/minister Christ's love to the incarcerated. The contact at Cook County has asked us to send out a smoke signal for cookie making/candy help. They are in need! At the event their desire is to bless each and every inmate with a gift of cookies and candy to warm their hearts and let them know they are loved. Hopefuly all 550 of the incarcerated plus officers will participate in this Christmas event. Here's where we come in! We're planning to make bags one night at Laura's this coming week (details to follow) and we'll bring the completed bags to church with us on December 21, 2008.
Here's what we'll do: 1. Place 4 large cookies (approximately the size of a standard chocolate chip cookie) in a zippered sandwich bag plus 5 hard candies. 2. We can include any kind of cookie we wish. 3. On a note card or sticky note we'll write a personal message of hope with our favorite scripture verse and put it in the bag (here's where I'd like to get the kids involved too!)
To those of us who call Willow Chicago our home or for those of us who would just like to help serve others for Christmas, this is an excellent opportunity to extend the love of God. I'd really like the kids to help, I think they would enjoy it and this would be a great example we'd be setting for them.
Thanks in advance. I'll post what night we'll be at Laura's!
Love,
Alexis
2 comments:
Friday any time of day or early Saturday morning would be a good time to make the cookies at my house. Whatever works best for those who want to take part, let me know.
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