Cupcakes for a Cause

My daughter came home from church with an idea to have a bake sale to raise money for a project sponsored by our church which provides Wheels & Meals (bicycles and goats) for traveling pastors in Uganda. The ministry that these pastors have is multifaceted. They travel from village to village sharing the gospel of Jesus and many of them end up taking in several orphans who would have nowhere else to go. They also help women start small businesses to care for their families after being widowed or abandoned. The bikes allow these pastors to travel around to villages and the goats are renewable food source providing dairy to their growing families. I wish I could adequately describe the impact these pastors are making in Uganda and how many lives are changed and improved because of their faithful ministry. It is profound.

After much deliberating with other 7th grade moms, we decided that Easter weekend was a perfect time to do it since we were expecting nice weather and we might sell more because of people who needed an easy dessert option for Easter dinner.

During the week before Easter, we posted an event on social media and within a couple days had pre-orders for 18 dozen cupcakes with promises from others to stop by in support. In a moment of panic I called my mother to help me get the orders ready for pickup on Saturday morning. The final count totaled 30 dozen cupcakes, and we raised almost 3 times more than I expected! God was faithful to bring customers from around the Twin Cities and the three seventh-grade girls worked in our driveway and sold almost all of them. I'm rather proud of these girls for their creativity and desire to make a difference, but I'm even more grateful for the sacrifice the Ugandan pastors are making to share God's love. We were able to donate 100% of proceeds to the Wheels & Meals Project. I'll let the video below tell the rest of the story, and after that, there is a sampling of some of the cupcakes we sold.

Here's a little more about the cupcake sale:

Chocolate with Caramel frosting

Vanilla

Chocolate with Vanilla Frosting

Lemon Blueberry

Almond