Leicester First Congregational Church

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  • Harvest Fair Success -Sept 20, 2008

    How do you make 39 pans of apple crisp in one night? You get Cindy LaPointe to organize the event. And what a success!

    Check out the new First Congregational Banners hanging at our booth. They look wonderful. Another big thanks to Cindy
    Check out the new First Congregational Banners hanging at our booth. They look wonderful. Another big thanks to Cindy

    As we were assembling the apple crisp the night before the fair, the thought occurred to us that we were crazy. How are we going to keep them warm? How much ice cream do we need? What if we only sell four pans of apple crisp? Is this really going to work? But we were having a lot of fun and figured we could make the congregation eat a lot of apple crisp at coffee hour for the next month.

    And these little piggies bought apple crisp
    And these little piggies bought apple crisp

    As it turned out, we had nothing to fear. In fact, there were a lot of disappointed fair goers who had decided to wait until the end of the day for their treat. Bad idea. We were sold out by 3:30.

    And while we were busy serving up our dish, Nick Mandella just as busy trying to keep up with all the popcorn and soda sales. Ron LaPointe, Neil Mulrain and Bob Kelly split their time between running apple crisp trays to the booth and helping Nick. This is definitely an event we want to repeat. It was beautiful day, we had a lot of fun and we made over a $1,000. Thank you everyone for your help.

    Click here to view more Harvest Fair pictures
    Click here to view more Harvest Fair pictures

  • Harvest Fair 2008

    Can you believe Sept is right around the corner already! Wow! Summer is flying by. But as the days shorten and the cool air settles in, we look forward to the most beautiful season in New England, the Fall. We are so lucky to have our church on the common, enabling us to share in all the fun filled festivities on Harvest Fair Day. We will host the Art Show upstairs in our church and Russell Hall will be used for children’s show and possible artisans.

    This year, for the first time, we will also join the Food Booths. To be successful, we really need your help. Our booth will be selling Pastor Nan’s Heavenly Apple Crisp!

    Friday night, Sept 19th, will find us busy in the kitchen baking apple crisp or setting up our booth on the common. Baking may also be done at home. Disposable pans will be provided. If you can spare one, two hours or even all day, we would be thrilled to have you join us. The Harvest Fair is very well attended. We need to make a ton of apple crisp! Come and help us represent our fine church and taste the best apple crisp ever. With the long cold winter ahead of us and the high price of oil, every bit of fund raising will help offset the cost of heating our church.

    Any questions, please call Cindy LaPointe at home 508-885-9875.

    Update: See pictures from this years festival, click here!