Posted on December 22, 2009 - by genes

Out With the Old, In With the New

This is another AFCC tradition – Once the holiday events are over and church programs grind to a halt for family Christmas and New Year’s celebrations, a crew of church elves goes into the kitchen and really cleans house.  (You might be surprised to learn what can accumulate in a church refrigerator if aggressive action doesn’t take place every so often!)  While that regular clean up did recently take place, this year, it extended past the kitchen and into the pantry.

In fact, using memorial money from the Thelma Goodwin Fund, the church pantry got a complete overhaul.  The original, permanent, wooden shelves were replaced with adjustable restaurant versions, the fluorescent green walls were painted with a scrubbable white enamel and several unusable items, that just took up space, were sent on to a better place.  Hank demonstrates, in this photo, that it’s actually fairly easy now to find just what you want in this well organized space.  Thelma Goodwin, who logged many an hour in the church kitchen, would have been thrilled to see the improvement.  Thank You to all who helped make this possible.   GRS