pie = love

Love Cedar Valley is sparking the imaginations and passions of people. When we encouraged people to consider how they might be a blessing in the community that day, two gals sent out an email inviting people to bake pies that could be taken to the caregivers in our community who work at nursing homes and care facilities.


The response was so overwhelming that not only did this group take pieces of pie to every care facility in the Cedar Valley, but they also delivered to nursing homes in towns 20-30 miles away...Traer, Denver, Reinbeck!


One volunteer watched a nursing home employee bustle down the hall to give his piece of pie to a resident, because he knew it was the resident's favorite kind of pie.

What a great way to show appreciation and love to people who often work without being thanked.

At another church, a group of women decided to make Amish Friendship Bread over the past few months. You know, the kind that sits on your counter for 10 days, and you multiply the batter and pass it on? Anyway, this group ended up making and freezing 500 small loaves of friendship bread over the last 2 months and passed them out to many people in many locations of our community on Saturday...Hospice Home, retirement homes, a strip mall, and more.

The ideas are endless as to how people can demonstrate God's love and bring a little kindness into someone's day.