Hello Friends!!! I have had a BUSY but BLESSED weekend. Saturday my Tea friend (Jen) and I traveled for a Valentine's Themed Tea at a mansion a couple of hours away! It was splendid! I will share tomorrow for Tuesday Tea.
BUT the BIG FUN event of the weekend was held on Sunday. Myself along with my Ladies Ministry Event assistant hosted a fun small group Ladies Crockpot Recipe Swap! It was wonderful and probably one of the best fun ideas we have hosted in a long time for our church ladies.
We did have a smaller turn out due to the Superbowl (US thing) and sickness, but it was perfectly lovely and I actually really enjoyed the cozy group!
We called it a Crockpot Night of Comfort and Cozy!!! We had asked each lady to bring their favorite comforting crockpot (slow cooker) dish along with the recipe written or typed out. We provided recipe cards for people to sample each dish and then choose to write recipes of the dishes they liked. It was so awesome and the food was all so delicious.
I made Pizza Dip THAT WAS SOOO GOOD!!! Here is the recipe!!! It was so easy, cheap and a hit!! I also made a crockpot dessert called Heaven in a Crockpot.....my friends...... IT WAS SO INCREDIBLY GOOD, EASY, AND CHEAP!! It was a hit. Recipe is here!
We encouraged each lady that they CAN do all things THROUGH Christ and that He comforts us as we do whatever we are led to do!!! We gave a practical but fun little "happy!" A can of veggies to add to a comforting meal later on with a reminder that WE CAN!!!
Here are some other set ups of the tables and things we did! We had such a fun time. We did a race to complete a word search puzzle on all Cozy words. We did a Get to Know You Bingo (it was a hit) and we put up posters asking people to share a comforting thought of encouragement for all of us to read throughout the night as well as share how Jesus has comforted us.
Do you see me???? These are some wonderful sweet ladies!! I laugh so much with them!!! OF COURSE, we had some door prizes!!! Comfy blankets and chocolate!!!
My sweet assistant and MENTOR!!! I love this sweet lady so much. Her name is Cindy!! Cindy is a "retired" pastor's wife and now I am her Pastor's wife. We work so well together and treasure this lady of grace, class, and wisdom.
I will be honest I slept in today (Monday) and I have had to really pace myself after last week's productivity and the weekend. This is actually a smidge of what was done because I had to host a speaker and family for lunch and clean the church before Sunday. But I will spare you all that. :) My weekends are usually a normal persons Monday-Thursday packed into two days as a Pastor's wife. Mondays tend to be a little lower key for me. I do a little reset of the home and then catch up on laundry and rest and read a lot more on this day.
I can't wait to have you POP IN TOMORROW for TUESDAY TEA!!!!
I am also adding this to Sweet Tea & Friends monthly Link Up! Visit here.
With Love,
Chrissy T
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16 comments:
I think the crock pot recipe swap is such a wonderful idea Chrissy T. I shall mention this to our craft ladies group as it sounds such a fun thing to do. xx
What a great swap! Your Pizza Dip sounds amazing and blankets and chocolate for door prizes, genius! Thanks for visiting my blog.
It was really a hit!!!!
Hi Pamela!!! It was so good!!!!
this sounds like a wonderful event. i have friends who have a "cookbook club" and it to sounds fun. each month, they pick a cookbook, each pick a recipe from the book, and then meet at each others homes to eat all the food. your recipes both sounded awesome, i pinned both of them!!
Oh, now this sounds so fun!!!!!! Thanks for sharing the idea. :)
What a great idea! I'm going to pass this one on to our Ladies group planners at church. They are always looking for new ideas. They have things planned till summer, but maybe next year. Your recipes look very good - thanks!
That looks like so much fun! Our previous church would host a "souper" bowl and each lady would bring in their favorite soup. It was always a good time.
Dear Chrissy, your photos are beautiful and heartwarming! So lovely to see you all gathering together for a great crockpot meal and fellowship!
Potluck meals are always a joy and these ladies are great cooks!
I can see you indeed, you look great! And it is so nice to see all the lovely smiles!
Thank you so much for sharing, dear friend.
That sounds like such a neat event!
It was really a huge hit!!!!
Oh, that sounds so fun!!!!
Thank you so much sweet friend!!!!
It really was!!!
That sounds like it was a lot of fun and great food too! What a fun idea! The ladies all look happy. You really do stay quite busy in your ministry. I'm glad you slept in a bit today and got some rest. That's one thing you want to be sure to do...take care of yourself so you will have the energy to keep doing the things you really feel called or led to do...but allow yourself some time to rest and recharge! One thing you don't want to do is "burn out". I can't wait to hear about the tea party you went to. It sounds like it was really nice!
Take care and may God bless you and keep you always!!
Pamela,
Yes...ma'am. I have had a few rounds of burn out in my life so I am trying to work real hard to be better at balancing rest and serving and life!!! :)
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