2019. 2019! That was the last time that the Methodist Men held a pie auction. A lot of lasts happened in that year. Most things have come back. But the Methodist Men Pie Auction was not one of them. Until last Sunday. For the first time in 4 years the congregation of the Boone First United Methodist Church gathered in Fellowship Hall and bid on pies made by other members of the church.
I confess to having had limited expectations. Our congregation is considerably smaller than it was before COVID. But I have to tell you, I was blown away. Absolutely blown away.
Here are some pictures of the event. The pictures taken during the auction were taken by Teresa:
I tried hard to guilt Jason into coming to bid on his mom’s pie. It did not work.
Somehow Shannon ended up with a piece of this and I did NOT!
So many people requested that Teresa make this pie with my Mom’s recipe. Teresa practiced this for months. Strange thing is while Mom made this pie for many people it wasn’t one she made for us. I don’t know if she made it ever for us. My favorite pie my Mom made was rhubarb. But every pie she made was good.
Andy told quite a tale about these brownies. And he wasn’t lying, they were delicious.
The pie auction raised $2,500 for our youth ministry program. Now we just have to get our youth ministry program going again. Rumor has it there might be a float trip this summer. That would be a good start.
Thanks very much for sharing the story, photos, and the color commentary, Chris. 🙂
You inspired me to share this idea with our church. Maybe they can do half as well as Boone FUMC!
Congrats on the fundraiser!
That is awesome! I’m glad you like the idea. It was Eldon Hutcheson’s and they kind of stuck the title of Eldon Hutcheson Pie Auction on it…. and he hates that so much!
So the brownies backed up the story I told of them, so why won’t you at least try free food delivered w the 17hr rest theory??
Ps tell john that a big hit for pies is sour cream raisin and people love have youth group kids deliver the pies, or even crazy dads that never grew up
I can only tell you a thousand times, there has to be a baseline first. What us in the scientific community call a control group.
John will be able to read your comment. He should get an email telling him somebody added a comment after his comment.