Angels -- hot from the oven

(Somewhere between leaving church and now my notes went walkabout, so I'm having to wing this. Apologies if I get little details wrong.)

This is the third year our Sunday School has participated in the Giving Tree program. In this program the tree (cut on our property) is set up in the Parish Hall and paper tags are hung on it. Each tag indicates an age range, a type of present, and perhaps gender of a needy child. People in the church take the tags, purchase and leave the presents beneath the tree. Already the tree has a number of presents beneath it -- which attracted the attention of many of the children this morning.

One parishioner remarked on last year's program. She'd had her daughter pick out the gift to be placed under the Giving Tree; during the middle of unwrapping gifts Christmas morning, he daughter suddenly stopped and said, "I wonder if the girl who got that present is opening it now?"

In additional support for the program, Rhonda had some of the Sunday School chidren make angel ornaments to be placed on the tree. These can be taken and gifts of money left (where? oops, that detail is still to be worked out) in order to purchase gifts for older children/teens, a CD player and the like, that are a bit more expensive.

I was fortunate to be on hand, camera in hand, when the angels were brought out still hot from the oven.