VALENTINE'S Agape Cafe

For Valentine's Day each year our church has Agape Cafe. I know all of you are familiar with church suppers but this is very different. One of the large rooms in our Out Reach Center is converted to a restaurant. The Agape Cafe is opened for 2 evenings, Friday & Saturday for Valentine's Day. Reservations are made in advance and tables are set up for the number of guests in each party.


The purpose of Agape Cafe is two fold: a nice dinner for our church body who chose to attend and a fund raiser for the yearly Mission trip which will be made during Spring Break in 5 weeks.

The room is decorated, tables are set with white table clothes, a nice center piece and candle on each table, nice silverware and dishes are used. The lights are dimmed and this year they hired a man, from outside our church body, who softly played the keyboard as we dined. He even took requests.

This makes the 3rd year Mickey & I have attended. The prior 2 years we went with church friends. This year our 2 daughters accompanied us.



Suzette & Jacque

(Jacque just started wearing glasses for the first time in her life)

Here the girls are acting silly

(like teenagers!) and standing by the wrong "dates"!!!

Suzette, Benny, Dave & Jacque. Dave & Suzette were also celebrating their 15th wedding anniversary.

The menu was: Tossed Green Salad - Swiss Chicken (chicken breast covered with mushroom dressing) - green beans & potato's - fresh baked rolls - choice of water, tea, sweet tea, or coffee.

For dessert they brought out trays of various desserts for you to choose from

Dave & Suzette at Agape Cafe.

The center piece was so large & lovely it was hard to get Dave's face.
Dave has chocolate cake with chocolate icing

Suzette has carrot cake with cream icing

Benny & Jacque

Benny had chocolate cake with chocolate icing

Jacque had white cheesecake covered with fresh strawberries

Mickey had pound cake

I had chocolate cheese cake with chocolate topping (forget the diet!)

The "wait" staff were young people from the youth ministry. You can see one of the

young men behind Jacque.

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This was out "waitress" Tia

None of these kids had ever "served tables" before. We had a good time teasing Tia and told her she better go to college!!!!

They all did a great job and were very attentive.

Here are our friends Carol & Ron. Ron, as you know is Mickey's bee keeper mentor. I'm just showing this to show a table set for "two"

It was a lovely, special way to celebrate Valentine's Day

&

Dave and Suzette's 15th Anniversary