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Recently, we picked up some grilled chicken to celebrate a birthday with the Renteria family! It was really good chicken and smelled great!! The animals were camped outside the door waiting for any little morsel that might get tossed outside. This little kitten is named, “Kitty” she was pretty persistent in her quest for food!
We are planning a basic outreach and getting to know you in the Km. 33 community this Christmas!
We have already found a handful of volunteers and an industrial two oven kitchen that will all help this project along! Many of the folks in the community don’t bake. Mexican culture is one that doesn’t bake. If someone wants a cookie or sweet bread, they go to the bakery down the street. Km. 33 has no bakery. Most of the folks in this community would be able to afford the treat anyway.
Growing up, this is something my folks always did. They would make home baked sweet bread and give it away as gifts!! My family worked in a different area of Mexico, and with a different social and economic group, but homemade bread speaks to anyone!!!
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS!!
Another thing I want to do is bake a bunch, I mean TON, of sweet breads and go door to door and give away Christmas bread! Something my family always did. I don’t think ever on a large scale, but to folks we sort of knew.
People could send fruit cakes or other typical Christmas goodies. A donation of $10 could bake quite a bit of bread! I may get my youth group to do some of the baking. My church may even help out. I’m hoping we can make it pretty big. I would like to walk around and knock on doors. Be a great way for us to meet people.
We just got three huge boxes of materials and pillows. Thanks!! We really did mean, “Hit me with a pillow.”
People can really decide how they want to help. They can send money or materials. We would like to be able to give pillows to people in the community for Christmas gifts!
Pillows & Fabrics ranges the same from $5-50.
I got this email from Sarah Fowler with the sewing stuff. It’s a pattern that she put together for us. You may be able to get that put up as a project that people can donate to, or even a womens ministry could sew them and send them.
We can have a handful of women sew them and we can give them out around the community. It could be a big help to them come the holidays.
