This is a photo of the church cookie jar at Lovina's that gets passed from house to house where services are being held. Â The woman who's house holds church last has to fill it for the next person, and so on. Â Looks like Lovina got zucchini muffins and pumpkin whoopie pies. Â Obviously the cookie jar is given to the person right before services, so, no worries, the cookies haven't been sitting around for two weeks between services! Â Anyway, this is a quaint custom that makes the Amish church so appealing to many. Â The Amish church really does embody the sense of cooperation and community spirit that so many others lack. Â Yes, it's just cookies, but it's such a sweet gesture. Â And don't they look good?:) Â I couldn't enlarge the photo of the verses that accompany the cookies, so I am sharing some of the verse below:
"Hello, I've come for a short stay, to help while you are busy...I can give school children a small snack to eat or the ladies that help clean a treat. Put me in your husband's lunch. Thank me with coffee
Fill me again and give me to the family having (church) after you
While I was here I enjoyed my stay. But keep me passing on so I can brighten some other's day.
That's a neat, tasty tradition and, again, a very endearing trait of the Amish.
brenda
how thoughtful. what a pleasant surprise as the hostess for services opens the jar to see what is inside. I hope she has an opportunity to sit with her favorite cuppa on such a busy busy time for her and her family.