Cookies & Pies!

When Debbie Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies, opened her first store at the age of twenty, she went several days without a customer. Finally, she had an idea. She filled a tray, stepped out onto the sidewalk, and gave the cookies away. People followed her into the store to buy more cookies. Today, with more than seven hundred stores, she still uses the same technique. At every store people who pass by are invited in to sample free cookies.

And then there was chocolate pie…….

For months, the residents in our small Midwestern town endured the clouds of dirt that swirled about when Main Street was torn up for repair. The arrival of the paving crew, therefore, was a major event. One woman was so glad to see them that she dashed into her kitchen and whipped up a dinner of fried chicken and apple pie to feed the work crew. When she presented the pie to the foreman, he said, "Ma'am, if that were a chocolate pie, we'd have paved your driveway too!" Phyllis laughed. Then she went back into the house and came out with a chocolate pie before heading off to work. When she returned, the crew was gone, and an empty pie plate sat in the middle of a brand‑new driveway.

You can use this spiritual truth in any part of your life and it will be true: Give and it will be given to you. ……………..whether it is love, kindness, compliments, or gossip about others. Give and it will be given to you.

Scripture: Luke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you.

Prayer: Lord, help me give what I would like given back to me. Amen

Pastor John

Stewardship Season!

Please come be a part of “Consecrations /Stewardship’ Sunday.

Please pray about what the Lord is asking you to give for this coming year!

Our church needs you “financial support” so that we can do all that we need to for the Lord in our community!

Sunday October 18^th at Courtyard by Marriot

10:00am Worship

11:00am Brunch

(The brunch has been paid for by anonymous members of our church)

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