Taste of the season
Faith Lutheran to host annual Cookie Walk & Craft Fair
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Volunteers Esha Patel, left, and Scarlett Parrott helped at last year’s Cookie Walk & Craft Sale at Faith Lutheran Church. - File photos
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Jan Maskarinec fills a box at last year’s event. - File photos
Gingerbread men, sugar cookies and more are being made for this year’s Faith Lutheran Church Cookie Walk & Craft Fair.
The church is welcoming members and the community to come choose cookies around the tables the first Saturday in December. This year, Gabriel Figueroa, Faith Lutheran’s director of communications, said the cookie walk will take place from 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Dec. 6, in the church, 225 Jamestowne Blvd., while the craft fair will begin at 8:30 a.m., giving attendees time to shop before buying cookies.
“We are expecting 20,000 of all sorts of variations (of cookies),” Figueroa said. “We have a lot of members from the church and even a lot of our friends and families contributing to baking cookies.”
He advises people to come early to get their best choice of cookies and crafts.
“That’s the exciting part about it,” he said. “The appeal is as opposed to you coming in and we just hand you a box (of cookies), you get to pick out your own cookies.
“So if all you want is a box of chocolate chip cookies, then go for it,” Figueroa added.
Even more fun, “you can fill your box up as much as you can as long as the lid closes,” he said.
When a person comes in, he or she pays $20 for a 9-by-9-by 2-inch box then they get in line to get their cookies.
“Last year, we sold 156 boxes,” Faith Lutheran office manager Mary Boring said. “We had 107 customers.”
For the most part, “it’s been all hands on deck kind of endeavor” to put on the event, Figueroa said. “Everyone from the church pitches in in many different ways, from baking cookies to recruiting, helping set up to even being greeters the day of (the cookie walk).
The church has held the event since 2002, but it went into hibernation during COVID, until it was brought back last year.
“It’s the church’s biggest event and everyone’s excited for it,” Figueroa said. “Everybody puts a lot of effort into it.”
He explained each year, proceeds from the event go to a different endeavor on which the church is working.
At the craft fair, there are 22 vendors “of all sorts,” Figueroa said. “We will have artists selling their own creative stickers, pottery, jewelry and photo prints. So, it’s really going to be a little bit of everything from local artists — some from the church, some from the community.”
