The Annual Sunshine Cake Auction was a roaring success this year ! The auctioneer was in great form and his elves were all gathered to help. So many people made cakes and goodies of the Christmasy kind. Two long tables groaned under the weight of the results of all the baking efforts. A sight to behold, especially for dessert lovers.
This cake auction is our big fund raiser to gather the funds for the little ones in our community who are not likely to have much of a Christmas at all. Our special shopping elves, with the proceeds from this auction, select clothing and toys to fit the needs of the little ones, there are 37 of them this year. A box with the makings for a complete Christmas dinner is given to each family. We invite them to a party here just for them with a Christmas tree, the gifts, and goodies to munch on.
The auction is much looked forward to and is very well attended by folks who have saved up to support the project with their generous, very generous bids. One especially magnificent cake appeared again this year. It brought in $110, another, a Diet dessert (actually a pretty paper plate all wrapped in clear wrap and a bow..MINUS the dessert) truly a no calorie dessert here, sold for $100. The only Pinnapple Upside-down caked this year, sold to the highest bid of $75. Other lovely cakes, desserts and platters of Christmas goodies were sold for prices ranging from $10 to $50. Fancy little packages of Chocolate Bark were really popular. In all the food brought in $758. Plus the donation jar was found to have $150 in it. All of this plus earlier donations all added up to the grand sum of $1500.
We all experience the wonderful truth of how it is "More blessed to give than to receive". Although we all agree that we DO receive so much joy and love in the giving and especially in seeing the amazement and joy on those little faces. When our special shopping elves finish their work we will have a Gift Wrapping Party !
Tonight we were treated to an hour or so of great Christmas music from The Fruit Pickers Band, a group of musicians from the First Baptist Church in Bushnell. They came to our Park and sang for us and with us. They had some new words for the old song "The Twelve Days of Christmas". I liked this version and thought to share it with you. The song starts off ... "On the 1st. day of Christmas, Jesus gave to me..."
I'll list here the 12 gifts.
1st day... Salvation Full and Free
2nd day...Everlasting Life
3rd. day..Peace in my heart
4th day...Love for all men
5th day...Joy in my soul
6th day... Power from on high
7th day... A body glorified
8th day... A robe and a crown
9th day... Mansions above
10th day..Streets of pure gold
11th day..A thousand tongues to sing
12th day..Eternity to Praise
It's been a full day and a nice one. Dennis has found a good Christmas movie for us to watch. I'll see if I can stay awake for the whole thing!
It looks like you all did a really great job and enjoyed it all to boot. Congratulations
ReplyDeleteJanice