September 6, 2008
As the date of Fall Festival grows closer, it is important that you know that ST. JAMES' FALL FESTIVAL NEEDS YOU!!! To assure maximum success, we need the help of ALL St. James families. In addition to helping during the festival, YOU can help by:
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Spread the word about the festival and pray for its success.
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Set up and price yard sale items. The gym will be open all day on Labor Day, come join us.
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We need people and vehicles to move items from the storage unit to the church on Sunday, August 31 @ 2pm. All yard sale items need to be in the gym NO LATER THAN WED. SEPT. 3.
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Help make apple pies. The dates of pie baking will be available soon in the bulletin.
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Help set up tables and tents at 7am on festival day. If you have small/medium shade tents, please loan them to the church for the festival.
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Ask for silent auction donations and/or assemble a gift basket for the auction.
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Make cakes, cookies, brownies, etc. for the bake sale.
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Share your garden delights in the plant sale. If you need pots for your transplants, call Sherri Thomas.
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Join in the cooking day for the pantry items to be sold in the craft sale.
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Attend the festival. Stay all day. Shop, eat, and enjoy the fun and fellowship.
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Clean up on Saturday after the festival is over. Many hands make light work!
The success of the festival depends on YOU!
Call Sherri
Thomas or Sharon Tootell for more information. THANKS!!
SEE YOU AT THE FESTIVAL. COME EARLY AND STAY LATE. YOU WILL HAVE SOOOOOOO
MUCH FUN!!
Storage Building for Fall Festival
A second storage building has been rented to store items for our Fall Festival. Come by the church and get the key when you have items for the Yard Sale.
Great news. We've added a pantry to the Fall Festival! When you are doing your summer canning, plan to fix a couple of extra jars to be sold at the Festival. We are planning on setting dates to get together and can salsa and tomato sauce along with blueberry jam to be sold at the pantry. Please keep in mind that we'll need canning jars (all shapes and sizes). If you've got a garden with plenty to share, please make extra available for those canning dates. We are also planning on making layered soup and cookie jars so donations will be needed for this to be a success. We'll need any types of dried beans (lentils, kidney, etc.) in many colors along with ingredients for the cookie jars (flour, brown sugar, white sugar, etc.)
It's Apple Pie Time Again
We need supplies and pie makers. Ingredients needed are: Crisco, plain flour, cinnamon, salt, sugar, 9" pie pans, and 2 gallon Ziploc bags. The only other thing we need is YOUR HELP. We will make pies the last week of August and the first week of September; exact times and dates to be announced. Contact Janet Scott with any questions.
Please share your perennials, bulbs, house plants, and small shrubs with us for the plant sale. There will be plastic flower pots just outside the family life center if you need them for transplants. Please include the name of the plant when you drop them off the week of the festival--the first week of September.
Silent Auction
In the past years we have had some awesome items donated for the silent auction. We are counting on your generosity once again this year. As you are out shopping over the next few weeks, when you come upon clearance sales, please keep the silent auction in mind. You can really get some bargains on household items that are the beginning of a great auction piece. Take for instance the pretty pasta dish you find at Stein Mart or Marshalls. Add to this a package of pasta, a jar of sauce, some bread, now you have the beginnings of a pasta dinner. Buy a couple of movie passes, add a box or two of candy, maybe a gift card for a restaurant, now you have the beginning of a date night--dinner and a movie. Are you catching on yet? If you are a golfer, talk with the pro at your golf course. See if they would donate golf balls and four rounds of golf with or without cart fees. Ask the mechanic that changes your oil to donate a gift certificate for an oil change. Visit your favorite shop and ask the owner to donate an item. You will be amazed at what merchants will give you, but YOU HAVE TO ASK. If you are lucky enough to have a vacation home, consider donating that home for a week or weekend's stay. Just think about something you wanted or purchased in the auction and donate that to us this year. We cannot be successful without your donations. Don't let us down; we're counting on you again this year.
If you have questions, call Annette Haynie. Thanks in advance for your donations and we look forward to watching the fun of the bids at the auction!
LET'S GET CRAFTY
Keep checking the Sunday Bulletin for dates of craft get-togethers. There are a couple of projects that we can do as a group or if you prefer working at home, contact Sharon Tootell, so that she can give you the materials needed for some simple projects.
FRUIT OF THE HARVEST PANTRY AND GIFTS FOR FALL FESTIVAL
We have renamed the Craft table to the "Fruit of the Harvest Pantry and Gifts" in order to utilize the bounty from our gardens in September. We will be featuring "green" items for sale. It would be a great idea to have homemade shopping bags for these items to go into when purchased. So, all you women who love to sew, make shopping bags out of any materials you have.
We will gather in the St. James kitchen three times to can salsa, tomato sauce and blueberry jam. For those of you who can at home, please make some extra to donate to the pantry. Anything will be graciously accepted and appreciated. We will have more of Nancy Bailey's famous yeast bread to compliment the layered soup (see recipe below) so we need canning jars; both pint and quart for the layered soup and cookie mix (see recipe below). Both layered soup and cookie jars are fun to make and very easy. A few recipes are listed below:
Rainbow Bean Soup
(quart jar)
3/4 cup of each of the following beans:
Dried red beans
Dried Great Northern Beans
Dried Split Peas
Dried Lentils
Dried Black Beans
Look for red lentils or yellow split peas for
a real rainbow of color.
Place beans in jar in order listed above.
Place lid on jar.
We will put seasonings, instructions, and
decorate the jars.
Chicken Noodle Soup
(pint jar)
Seasonings: mix in small bowl:
1 Tablespoon dried minced onion
1 Tablespoon Chicken Bouillon Granules
1 teaspoon celery powder
1/2 teaspoon pepper
Loosely place seasonings in jar.
Press seasonings down firmly.
Fill jar with:
2 cups wide egg noodles
Put lid on jar.
Provide 5 ounce can of chicken
Black-Eyed Pea Soup
(pint jar)
1 3/4 cups dried black eye peas
Put peas in jar and put lid on.
We'll add seasonings and instructions
and decorate jar.
Oatmeal Raisin Spice
Cookie Mix
(quart wide-mouth jar)
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup raisins
2 cup old fashioned oats
1 cup flour mixed with the following:
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Layer ingredients in order given in jar.
It will fit tight. Press each layer firmly in place
before adding next ingredient.
Label, seal, and we'll add instructions
and decorations.
Potato Chip Cookie Mix
(quart wide-mouth jar)
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cup crushed potato chips
2/3 cup chopped pecans
2 1/2 cup flour mixed with 1 teaspoon baking powder
Layer ingredients (tightly) in order given.
Press each layer firmly in place before adding
next ingredient.
Label, seal, and we'll add instructions
and decorations.
Peanut-Peanut Butter
Cookie Mix
(quart wide-mouth jar)
3/4 cup salted peanuts
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup peanut butter chips
1 1/2 cups flour mixed with:
1 teaspoon baking soda and
1 teaspoon salt
Layer ingredients in order given.
Press each layer firmly in place before
adding next ingredient.
NOTE: We will provide the instructions and decorations for the jars, so just bring the filled jars. Put an identifying label on them and bring to the church when complete. We'll take it from there!
People are needed to cut out large, round circles of fabric for decorating the top of jars. If you have fabric and want to cover your own, that would be great. We will add a ribbon, attach recipe/instructions, etc. If you want to make something else, just contact Sharon Tootell.