Every-other Sunday evening, young people from our church called the "college & careers group" come over to our home for Bible Study. Last February, as Family Day was approaching we thought about hosting a pancake breakfast to raise funds for Elisha House. Elisha House practices Biblical Counselling for families in relational difficulties; they counsel woman who have crisis pregnancies, and they provide post-abortion counselling. Elisha House is very dear to our church.
Our group was overwhelmed by the support of our congregation last year so we decided we had to keep up a good thing! We set out to organize another Family Day Breakfast.
We arrived early to church, ready to set up and serve breakfast to a couple hundred people. This group of young people know how to work and serve! Immediately they found "their station" and went to work. Thankfully the whole breakfast went smoothly...meaning, we didn't run out of groceries and have to find a store opened on Family Day!
We went through 75 pounds of bacon, 70 dozen eggs, and hundreds of pancakes. Wow!
Family Day is a great day to enjoy breakfast and fellowship with one another. It was such a wonderful atmosphere and again we were thankful for everyone's support.
Red Rover never grows old!
When the last pancake was eaten and the clean up complete, we were eager to see how much we raised.
We were grateful to raise $3100 for Elisha House!
Until next year...
Awesome! We do a pancake breakfast every Family Day too at our church (and one in November). This was our 5th year doing it! Always good fun and good food!
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