Nine members of the Kum Join Us Extension Homemakers Club and three guests attended the Mother’s Day Tea on May 13 at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Seymour.

Those attending were Olga Otte, Ruth Ann Hendrix, Carol Mansfield, Ruta May, Linda Guinn, Karen Hendrix, Skye Zakrzewski and her daughter, Sage, Karen Brigdon, Misty Stuckwisch along with Amanda Cooper and her daughter, Harper Rust.

Tables throughout the room were set up with various door prizes, and names were called throughout the event for winners to choose their prize. Stack the Starburst and guess the number of buttons in the jar games were played.

The tables and chairs were covered in white with candy pink bows, and each had teapots filled with tea or pink punch. There also were tiered trays of the confections on each table. Each table was adorned with bird cages or flower arrangements. Everyone also received an embroidered handkerchief that was ironed, folded and attached with ribbon to look like a princess gown. There were multiple areas that were set up for photo ops.

The tea was hosted by the evangelism board of the church. Their members included Debbie Pettay, Leah Bowling, Ruth Southerland, Katrina Miller, Marsha Waskom, Carol Caudell, Rich Steele, Pastor Zach Huffman and Pastor Andrew Currao.

Caudell was the hostess and welcomed everyone.

Currao’s message was about the various missions the proceeds from this tea help to sponsor. Those include Heart-4-Haiti, Heart-4-Haiti Lutheran Mission Society, 4 Kenya Kids, Cross Life Ministries, Eritrea Mission and Ministry and Chaplain Matthew Prince with the Navy.

Mary Anne Schneider told a story about the teacup with members of Redeemer’s congregation. Young members of the Redeemer congregation, Kenzi Mellencamp, Ava and Riley Hubbard and Huffman and his wife, Jodi, acted out the story as Schneider read.

Pastor and Jodi Huffman portrayed a couple celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary. While in England shopping, the couple found a beautiful teacup and asked to see it. The teacup began speaking once the clerk handed it to them, saying, “I haven’t always been a teacup.”

The story went on telling about every step, from clay to oven to cooling, painting with horrible fumes and heating once again while Mellencamp, dressed as the teacup, gave a great rendition with her facial expressions of each process.

After each step, the potter kept saying, “Not yet,” even though the cup was suffering horribly with each step. Finally, the teacup was as beautiful as he had intended.

The story is about God knowing what he had in mind for us from our very beginning. We may have hard things to go through, but those things make us better and get us to where he intended.