Spaghetti Dinner Raises over $750

On Saturday night members of our Mission team provided a spaghetti supper to raise funds for our trip next year. Rev. Michelle Madsen Bibeau organized the event and Amanda Duntz, George Rezendes and Lisa Lapointe gave up their Saturday to cook and prepare the bulk of the meal.

Amanda worked on the salad and Lisa made the meatballs. George helped get everything set up and worked on a little bit of everything. Michelle cooked the brownies and made sure the rest of us kept busy. Her hardest job was keeping me out of the kitchen so the others could work. So I went out and dressed the tables.

Mark Soloman was also on hand and he fired up the dishwasher and made sure everything was working properly and that all our dishes and serving equipment was clean and ready to go.

We were joined later in the day by Sharon Fishkin, Carol Calkins Mark Kane and Jake Shanks. They finished up the prep work and served the diner to the seventy to eight people who came out to support our cause.

When the donations were counted up, the event raised over $750 to wards the trip. It was a good day. Anyone wishing to make a donation can either put it in the offering plate at either of the churches or mail it to First Baptist and designate it to "Mission Trip 2009" in the memo line.

Here are a few photos to give you a glimpse into the fun we had.