"Pay To Pie" Cleans Up

This afternoon, it was inspiring to see so many children, youth and adults selflessly step up to the plate, cover it in whipped cream and thrust it in the face of our Youth Pastor, Katie Bartholomew, and our Children's Pastor, John Smoke. As so often in our church, people responded to the challenge with amazing enthusiasm, throwing more than two dozen pies at $5 each, more than Katie and John can possibly have hoped. Even Pastor Greta joined in. At the end, they both seemed dazed by the experience. 

The event raised money for two charities that have done so much to alleviate hunger in the local community and around the world, Church World Service and Feed My Starving Children, both of which have been supported by DGFUMC over many years. This was a follow-up to the South DuPage CROP Hunger Walk a couple of weeks ago, in which over fifty church members participated, twenty of them members of Katie's youth group and John's Sunday schools. Over $28,700 has been raised by the walk so far and the eventual total is likely to be over $2,000 more than last year. Thank you to Katie and John for their enthusiastic support and to everyone who participated a couple of weeks ago and today.

Today's event was so successful that there is already talk of a follow-up, but the victims have yet to be chosen. Any volunteers?