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Cookies for Kairos
August 4 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Partner with us in prison ministry by baking cookings. PLEASE RETURN COOKIES BY SUNDAY, AUGUST 4. Please let us know how many cookies you plan to contribute HERE & download cookie guidelines HERE.
Kairos has often been referred to as the “cookie ministry”. Homemade cookies are a small thing to us on the outside, but to someone who has been incarcerated for a long time, they are priceless. The fact that someone cared enough to actually bake a cookie for them is very profound. The Kairos team uses these cookies to help show the love of Christ and of their outside brothers and sisters in Christ to the residents.
As you might, expect – there are a lot of rules and details related to the cookies, as explained below:
What kind of cookies can you bake for Kairos?
- Only home-baked cookies are used. Cookie mixes, pre-mixed cookie dough from your supermarket, or “frozen cookie balls” from food wholesalers are all okay.Dough that comes pre-cut is recommended. Pelase pray for the recipients of your cookies as you bake and package them.
- Bake only chocolate chip cookies.
- Do NOT add fruit, nuts, or coating of any kind, including sugar to the cookies. Do not use M&Ms for chocolate chip cookies. Make only plain cookies. We like to give cookies as much alike as possible.
- Size: 2-2.5 inches diameter. This allows packaging 12 cookies in a QUART size zip-loc (not zipper) bag and helps keep them from breaking. Thin, crisp cookies break easily and cannot be used. BROKEN COOKIES ARE NOT GIVEN TO RESIDENTS. Dough that comes pre-cut is recommended for consistent size.
- Don’t over bake cookies. They will be handled many times and transported in bulk into the prison so they need to be a bit tougher and durable than your average cookie. If you over bake them, they will become brittle and may break.
- Allow cookies to cool COMPLETELY before bagging. Warm cookies will stick together and cannot be use.
- Pack your cookies in quart size zip-loc (NO ZIPPER) bags. 12 cookies per bag. Pack bagged cookies in sturdy boxes.