Kairos Cookies
There is one more opportunity to provide cookies for a Kairos weekend.
All types of cookies are needed. Types of cookies that are acceptable: oatmeal, peanut butter, molasses, chocolate chip, ginger. All cookies should be no larger than 2½" in diameter. This size does not break as easily as larger ones. Do not make thin, crisp cookies as they break and cannot be used. Important: No icing, sugar, or any other type of coating on the outside of the cookies. Also, no type of fruit or nuts; example, no raisins.
Place cookies in Ziploc bags, a dozen to the bag and label bag as to number of cookies and kind. Cookies can be made ahead of time and frozen. While you are preparing the cookies, we ask that you pray for the people who will eat them.
Thanks for your support of these powerful Kairos weekends.
FAQS
Why bake cookies?
For many in prison, they have hit bottom – the lowest possible point in their lives. They feel isolated, cast out, alone and unloved. For many, their families and friends have abandoned them. Often the cookies you bake are the only indication to them that they have not become simply a South Carolina Department of Corrections number.
Each Kairos Weekend lasts 3½ days. At the end of each day a bag of homemade cookies is delivered to every resident in every dorm. Residents who have already experienced a Kairos Weekend bag the cookies, each day, and enclose a verse of scripture in each bag.
How Do These Cookies Help?
Your homemade cookies tell the residents that someone who doesn’t even know them still cares enough to give a part of their life – the time it takes to bake the cookies – without wanting something in return. Such selflessness is often a unique experience for them. It also teaches them to trust. Someone has said these cookies are “seeds of love” being sown in the hearts of those who know so little of the love God’s children are commanded to show forth to the world. These cookies (expressions of God’s love) have been observed as motivation to inmates to learn more about Kairos, consider applying to attend a future Kairos weekend or sustain and encourage prior graduates in their faith walk.
How Many Cookies Are Needed?
Often 6,000 dozen cookies are needed for a single Kairos Weekend. No cookies are ever wasted. If any are left over, they are frozen and used for future Kairos events.
What Kind Of Cookies Can I Make? Are There Any Restrictions?
All types of cookies are needed. Types of cookies that are acceptable: oatmeal, peanut butter, molasses, chocolate chip, ginger. All cookies should be no larger than 2½” in diameter. This size does not break as easily as larger ones. Do not make thin, crisp cookies as they break and cannot be used. Important: No icing, sugar, or any other type of coating on the outside of the cookies. Also, no type of fruit or nuts; example, no raisins.
Place cookies in Ziploc bags, a dozen to the bag and label bag as to number of cookies and kind. Cookies can be made ahead of time and frozen. While you are preparing the cookies, we ask that you pray for the people who will eat them.