Dinner, Silent Auction, and a Pie in the Face

There are roses in the center of the table, Italian music play in the background, and the smell of wonderful food is in the air. "Yes," you think, "I must be at at a high-class restaurant." But then you look around and realize your waiters and waitresses are 6-12th graders! While it's not technically a high-class restaurant, the food might rival one and the service just as good :).

We put on a spaghetti dinner and silent auction last night as a fundraiser to send our kids to youth camp. There were a lot of hands that went into making the night a success, and our students did an awesome job of helping set up, serve, and clean up - earning the money that will go toward camp. Each one played their part, and did it well, and the night was a huge success! Mark even auctioned off taking a pie to the face!

Our "Italian Bistro."

Some students were the "cooks" and made up the orders that came in from the waiters and waitresses.

We had a pretty full house!

Christina doing dishes...I hear this is a rarity so I thought I'd post the picture so her family would know it happened. There's proof! :).

We auctioned off the opportunity to hit Mark in the face with a pie. His parents, who are visiting actually won the bid! They then let the kids/youth guess a number and the winner got to throw the pie. Cooper was our winner!

Here's the result of the pie in the face. There's a short video below if you want to actually see it happen! One guy in our church said, "It was worth the price of admission just to see this!"

Two of our students, Josh and Kyler, also raffled off a pie in the face, which we got to do tonight at Youth Group. I think Kyler got some up his nose :).

I think Cooper looks way too excited about this!