A good idea catches on fast!

Earlier today we took these (yummy) peanut butter rice krispie bars with chocolate frosting to church for a dinner later today.  

                   

                        

In our little town, our students in junior and senior high are in school until about 3:15.  If they are in sports like basketball, they might not have a game until 7 in the evening.  So if it's a home game, they have several hours with no dinner and not really any places in town to eat.

So last year one of our members came up with the idea of having late afternoon meals for them at our church on game days for boys and girls basketball.  Our church is just a couple blocks from school so it was an easy walk for them there and back to school.  

And the idea took off like gangbusters!

The original idea person and her assistant came up with a schedule of all the games and planned menus for those dinners.  People in town, and not just church members, volunteered all kinds of food items based on her menus, and also donated money for other things they'd need.  The response was overwhelming.  And the parents were so pleased.

Best of all, the kids love it, too.  The average number of diners has been about 25-30, with some nights up to 40 if the drama kids were there, too.  That might not sound like a lot of kids until you know that there are only 200+ kids in the whole K-12 school, with classes of about 12 each.   Small but mighty!

So tonight's dinner is the last of the season.  Plans are already in the works for next year!