Having food available for our Friday evening gatherings has always been on the agenda. However, many times we get rushed when preparing for the service and end up going with a box of doughnut's from Stewart's convenience store--hardly an acceptable offering unto the Lord.
How different would church be if all of us treated it like an actual party worth sacrificing for? A party that inspires us to give our best offerings to God? I mean, whenever we gather, we are celebrating our union in the body of Christ--which is a great reason to throw a party!
One young woman in our church, Brittney Clow, aka Cakegirl, saw the need to turn up the party a couple of notches, and she took it upon herself to make a custom cake to go along with our different Friday night food themes. This is more than a sheet cake from the grocery store, we are talking a full blown customized cake that is edible art!
Our first Friday with a food theme was BBQ cheeseburgers. Brittney brought in her own burger, which was a giant cake shaped like a cheeseburger, complete with french fry shaped cake in legit french fry baskets. There was even desert sauces in glass bottles that looked like ketchup and mustard.
Next week was fruit smoothie night. For this cake, Brittney made an edible woven cake basket and filled it with strawberries and blueberries. This was the first basket I have ever eaten.
The Friday after that, Brittney used her Mom humor to come up with a great pun. The theme was Chicken Spiedies, a popular dish in the Northeast that is basically marinated pieces of chicken. Brittney's cake-of-the-week included a race track with cars speeding on it. One poor car (the red one) was speeding too fast and wiped out. The speedy cake also included racing flags and a hard chocolate corner with "The Redemption Movement" written on the side.
It's actions like this that make church fun for everybody, and encouraging for the ministers pouring hours into preparing the service, week in and week out. Do you know how much time and energy goes into making one of these awesome cakes? With all that attention to detail, all the planning, the mixing of ingredients, the shopping for supplies, if you add up every custom cake making step, I know that we are looking at hours of time Brittney has freely given as a service unto the Lord. If true worship is a sacrifice, then these custom cakes are a pure worship offering made of pure sugar.
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| Brittney and her guitar cake with band No Lost Cause |
People of the church taking time out of their busy week to invest hours into making church memorable and fun; this is what it takes to turn a typical Stewart's-doughnuts-of-a-church-service into a full-blown party! If church is a celebration, then you have to ask yourself, "What can you bring to the party of a King?"
Thank you Brittney for your amazing cakes!
Amazing cake, how sweet
the pounds,
That baked with layers three
That baked with layers three
I ate some frost and now am round,
Was starved, but now, diabetes.
Was starved, but now, diabetes.
Brittney will be happy to make you your own custom cake. See Cakegirl's Facebook page for contact information.
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