Dear AACS Family and Friends,

            My family and I have been quite blessed since joining the AACS family in 1999.  We now have three children in the school and have partaken of many potluck suppers, luncheons and breakfasts.  We have been overwhelmed by the love, care, hospitality and generous hearts and hands of our families!  There is no doubt that AACS families can cook!! 

            We are now engaged in producing the AACS cookbook named Timeless Treasures.   It is a full categorized cookbook - from hors d'oeuvres to desserts and everything in between- filled with tips on cooking, hospitality, words of encouragement, and memorable notes. 

The Goal is to have the best, most convenient, tastiest, and heart warming morsels of delectable delights for every age and diet - all in one book!!  We expect 800 recipes should cover this, so send in your recipes, your extended family’s recipes, and please encourage your church and friends to participate, too!  The more recipes the better our cookbook will be!!

Additionally, this cookbook will be Readable so those who love to curl up with a good book can enjoy your words about your recipe, your quips, quotes, favorite Bible verse, humorous anecdotes, personal messages, etc, that will lift the readers’ appetite and spirit.  The details and categories are found on AACSCookbook.

How to Get us Your Recipes!   

1.      Place your recipes and/or cookbook(s) with the recipe pages marked, in an envelope or zip lock bag.  Then put the packet in the basket provided in the lower, middle and high school offices.  Please be sure to include your name, phone number, e-mail address, and how many recipes you have included.  We will promptly return your recipes to the office where you left them. 

2.      Type them and ...   Please be sure to put “recipes” on the subject line and include your name.

3.      If both of these ways are not convenient, please call.

4.      Every Contributor gets a Free Cookie Cookbook as a grateful “Thank You!”  Plus Timeless Treasures has a Contributor Index so that your recipes can be found just by looking up your name!   

5.      Using the forms listed below for guidelines will be most helpful –

~ RECIPE FORMS ~       ~ QUIPS/QUOTES FORM~  

More Important details are found on AACSCookbook.

We need people to help from their home to -

v      Pray & pray for the success of this cookbook - for many recipes received and blessing others in hospitality.  

v      Send Recipes, Recipes, Recipes!!!  Pick out incredible recipes (even from many sources!) and bring them or e-mail them to us.  See Tangible Help  

v      Type – just a few people make quick work.  You can do it from your home!

v      Proof the typing – Can be done from your home!

v      Forward this email for more recipes to come in!! Ask your church, friends and extended family to be involved.  This is an outreach project. 

A Personal Note -         As chairperson, my motivation for this cookbook is three fold.  First, I would love to have a collection of all of those great foods which we have tasted over the years.  Second, I would like to help in leaving a legacy that would outlast my family's tenure here.  Thirdly, I would like to see AACS extend our hospitality, faith, and love beyond our campuses in a tangible way for God's Glory alone.  

            Please join us in helping with this fabulous opportunity! We need everyone’s help, and that means You!!  Please visit AACSCookbook for ideas and inspiration!!  We eagerly look forward to your timeless culinary recipes, thoughtful words, and your family and friends’ treasured recipes to encourage hospitality and bless the AACS community and beyond!!   We all will be soooo blessed by your efforts!!   

With much Love and Joy, Crystal Bowers,  Psalm 103:1-5 & Col. 3:23, 24

Taste and see that the LORD is good; Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him. Psalm 34:8         

Thanks for your help and support!  What a blessing this book should be!!