1.) Make your cookies sturdy.  They’ll need to be handled several times before they arrive in the prisoners’ hands.  Delicate, pretty cookies will crumble to dust; chewy cookies and brownies tend to end up as single large, featureless lumps.

6.) Don’t use powdered sugar or raisins in the cookies.  M&Ms or Reese’s Pieces are fine though. Don’t put a sugar frosting on cookies.

2.) Try to get them between 2 and 3 inches in diameter, so that two dozen is two dozen across the board and we can be fair.

7.) Don’t put notes in the bag or stick them on the bag; We’ll have to take them out or off, and the prisoners will never see them.

3.) Bag your cookies in batches of Two Dozen in a Ziploc type plastic storage bag.  Don’t put anything but cookies in the bag.  Paper plates, notes, cardboard backing, and plastic wrap – anything but cookies will have to be removed by us before the cookies go into the prison. 

8.)  Please don’t use burned or blemished cookies.  Remember, the coolies are intended to represent God’s perfect love to the prisoners.

4.) Try to count your cookies carefully so that we don’t have to re-bag them.  Again 2 Dozen per bag.

9.)  Please place the cookie bags in the Kairos box in church.  They will be picked up every couple of days and frozen to keep them fresh for the weekend.

5.) Pray.  As you bake the cookies for this bag, pray for the man or woman who will eat them.  Your prayers are very important to the prisoners.

10.) Thank you very kindly!  May God richly bless you