St. Matt's News

Thank you to those who helped with the Fair!
It was a wonderful day: Fun, while promoting sustainability and fair trade! Thank you to all of the people who worked to make the Fair Trade and Sustainability Fair a wonderful community event. Special thank you to Emily Wanezek for organizing the event and to the leaders and workers of the various areas:

• Julie Abrahamson for the Bake Sale for Hunger
• The men’s ministry for baking and selling the yummy breads
• Ginny Corwin and Linda Levengood for inspiring and organizing the sewers of mittens, aprons and pins
• The prayer shawl knitters for knitting and crocheting all of the beautiful pot holders and coat hangers
• Jeanne Collins for the luscious pancake breakfast
• Our farmers and fair trade vendors
• Erin Margerie for coordinating volunteers and organizing kids’ crafts
• Kristin Olson for working on publicity and organizing kids’ crafts
• Julia Murphy for running the soap making workshop
• Youth volunteers for helping serve at the pancake breakfast and offering child care
• Our speakers, Rosemary Huddleston, Bruce Johnson and Rosie Haas.

And thank you to all those who baked, sewed, sold, cooked, served, publicized and purchased products. Proceeds from the Fair Trade and Sustainability Fair will go to support the people who make Fair Trade items, to Churches Center for Land and People and Harvest of Hope – organizations that support small local farmers, to our Hunger Appeal and to support urban agriculture in Milwaukee.

Thank you to the youth and adults who worked in the kitchen and serving guests at the pancake breakfast that was held at the Fair in the morning!

In addition, needleworkers and many others provided items that were available at the fair. We thank those who used their hands and talents to help us!

St. Matthew’s hosted the Fair Trade and Sustainability Fair on Saturday, November 7. The fair included a pancake breakfast made with local ingredients, a winter farmer’s market, and fair trade items from local vendors. This year’s vendors will include Third World Handcraft Shoppe, Future Green, Little Read Book Store, and Four Corners of the World Fair Trade.

The Care for Creation team had several items available for purchase (mittens, aprons, hot pads). They also had a few new additions to the day: workshops to include soap making, applesauce making, and a sustainability speaker, activities for children (making wrapping paper and advent wreaths, fleece blankets to donate), and a bake sale.

Photo album of the 2009 Fair Trade and Sustainability Fair [here].