Mother's Day Flower and Bake Sale

Avery had an idea early in the year: she decided to host a bake sale and make $1 million so that she could help all of the people in the world who needed homes.

I waited to see if she'd forget the idea, but she held onto the idea and continued to ask when we could host her bake sale.  Since I didn't know how many sales we would make on our cul-de-sac, our Children's Ministry at church offered to partner with her and host a flower-and-bake sale for Mother's Day.  Our family pastor helped Avery make a more concrete goal: earn $2,000 to help fund a mission trip to Guatemala that our church would be going on later this year.

$2,000 in profit meant we would need to sell 150 flowers and baked goods, and on the day of the sale, we had only sold 85 in pre-orders.  Avery prayed and asked God to help her reach her goal.  And He did.

Avery had her hands in every part of the bake sale: advertising, signage, baking, flower care, clean-up, and counting money.  After the bake sale, we had made an astonishing $1,600 in profits - so close!  God showed up through very generous donations from people in our community and church, and we were just a little jump away from the final goal.

And that's when Kate got an idea - she had been hearing everyone talk about all of the hard work Avery had done, and she decided she'd do a little selling of her own.  She called her Nana and DD and offered to sell them 3 pieces of artwork.  She took her efforts very seriously and her hard work, along with the hard work Avery put into the bake sale, equaled exactly $2,000 in profits!

Avery helped count the money one last time and then turned it into the church to "help people who need water".  I couldn't have asked for a better Mother's Day gift than watching my girl give out of the kindness of her heart and seeing God come through for her in a big way.

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