Fall Kick Off

A little late here ... 

but I thought I'd share these pictures of a really great time we had at our church fall kick off.

It was memorable this year in that someone decided to add an ethnic Mennonite food to the menu

and guess who was recruited!

Lovella and I did some homework and decided to go for it!

The Tuesday before the kick off we met with a group of friends in the church kitchen

and mixed up about 80 recipes of Rollkuchen.

Using the industrial sized mixer, that would be 20 batches.

Lots of rolling, cutting and layering.

We counted 3700.

The cart got rolled into the freezer room.

On Fall Kick Off Sunday, they were thawed 

twirled ... and fried up fresh as people were coming.

It became an assembly line that was hard to imagine before hand ...

What gave me such joy was to see how, along with friends, 

both Lovella's and my family came out to help ...

and stayed till we were done.

 

 We finished up just as dinner time ended ...

with three Rollkuchen left over.

 With their parents sticking it out at the Rollkuchen booth,

Papa and I had the chance to run about a bit with the littles ...

bouncy castles were a hit. 

 As was the shaved ice.

The end result was like a dream

and we experienced again the joy of serving in community.