Christmas Cookies

Carolyn and Desi made Christmas cookies for our neighbors. Annie supplied the cookie cutters and Sarah the sprinkles..

Here is the finished product.

Here are our treats. BTW, the couch was likely the same couch I sat on in the mission home in 1974 just before leaving for home. We learned the old mission home furniture was moved to our apartment when the mission home moved to Brussels.

This is Dickie. She is a wonderful person. She still fits in her wedding dress. She volunteers at a second hand store at a nursing home. We asked her to let us know if they got any Delft Blue pottery. One day she was so excited and told Carolyn she had something for us. The only thing Carolyn understood was six. We visited them a few days later. She brought out six Delft blue tiles. She also got down a Delft Blue plate that she had been keeping for us. Carolyn was so surprized and grateful. Dickie does not say much. She just blushed with a huge smile on her face.  Love speaks its own language that everyone understands.

We did not get a picture of a lady in our apartment that we gave one of the Santa's to. She lives alone. She is very short and must be in her late 70's. We see her walking and riding her bike to do her shopping. She always waves and says hello.   Her husband died years ago. She was so touched and grateful for our little gift.  She shared her love of Christ and faith in Him and that was her gift to us.



We delivered cookies to a neighbor who investigated the church a few years ago but were not baptized. They have 3 beautiful daughters. Their youngest daughter is second from the right in the pink dress. She had her two friends came over to get the recipe for the sugar cookies. Actually they wanted to come and visit with Desi and practice their English. They taught Desi some Nederlands. They stayed for more than two hours.