CHURCH SUPPERS!

Ya know, I posted a soup recipe the other day on my blog and said it was a local favorite that I cooked.  It is and was, but I am unable to do the church suppers anymore.  It seems that my body was rebelling and my karma was somehow turning around on me.   I could not move with out aching for at least three days after and the last two that I cooked at I needed 5 stitches in my finger, and the last one that I helped at I cut my finger again!  I am done.

The church suppers at my Church in Pittsford are fantastic, taste good and are healthy.  We tried to have at least one every month and they were always profitable.  No price was ever set for them that I remember.  They had what was called a free will offer where you paid what you thought was a fair price.  If you didn't have money it was okay and you were still welcome.  We have had roast pork, chicken, turkey, meatloaf, ham, soup, pasta and even vegetarian dinners.  Desserts were usually made by the parishioners.  All of the meals were made from "scratch"!

The woman who has sort of taken over is fantastic and has a lot of family help along with some special others, but I know she is an extremely busy farmer's wife, a nurse, a grandmother and the superintendent of the church Sunday school and a true christian in the good sense.  Somehow she is also blessed with excellent time management skills!  Unfortunately a lot of the kitchen help is made up of older people like me that just can't seem to do as much any more and I feel that the church will begin to "fade with age".

The church needs help.  I worry but at the same time I have faith.  We need to get younger people involved to pick up the slack.  The way I socialize (I am really into solitude these days), I wouldn't know if we have enough younger people in the church or area that would carry on the tradition.  I know years ago, I would have been embarrassed to volunteer to do this and hope my friends didn't see me.  I guess that is one of the advantages of getting older.  I don't really give a "gosh darn" what people think of me now.