Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday! I love how the world is filled with pink and hearts and flowers and chocolate and chocolate covered strawberries. I love love!
Last year around Valentine's Day, I was trying to figure out how to raise money for a missions trip. Casey convinced me to sell cookies. So I did, and I was amazed at the response! It ended up turning into a side business for me so I get to make lots of cookies!
This year I decided to share the love on Valentine's Day. A few months back, I felt God leading me to donate the money I received to an orphanage. I'd connected with a friend, Katie, who is currently in Brazil doing missions work and I thought it would be really cool to give the money to an orphanage there. What I didn't know was that the host missionaries she's staying with have spent the last few years raising funding to open an orphanage! So that was that and I partnered with Jubilee Orphanage.
The Jubilee Foundation is truly amazing. They've been helping families in the community with things like food, clothing, and school supplies. Katie sends me their stories often as she meets the people the foundation has helped. The foundation currently owns land for the orphanage and needs to raise enough funds to start their building plans. I'm so grateful that I was able to be a part of this and not only raise money for the orphanage but also awareness. I hope it put a spark in someone's heart to pray for and support Jubilee Orphanage.
Enjoy some photos of the cookies I made! I don't know how many cookies we made total. Hundreds, definitely. Maybe over a thousand. It was a ton of baking and hard work, and I was grateful for the help and support from my mom, her husband, my sweet guy, and my cousin. I couldn't have done it without them!
