God’s Work Our Hands 2025 Report

Cookies and snacks were distributed to organizations and sites of first responders in and around St. Petersburg on Sunday afternoon, September 7, 2025.

Lutheran Church of the Cross members and preschoolers at Lutheran Church of the Cross Day School donated homemade and store-bought cookies. The Preschool kids decorated paper bags used to package the school donations. The Sunday school kids made and personalized cards to accompany the cookie trays.

Lutheran Church of the Cross Day School elementary and middle school students donated packaged snacks along with handmade drawings and handwritten letters of appreciation.

25 sites received donations; including 19 firestations, 6 hospitals and the St. Petersburg Police Headquarters. 260 dozen cookies were donated by LCC members and LCCDS families. 142 bags of personal care items and packaged snacks were donated by LCCDS students and families.

Thanks for all who helped make this another successful God’s Work Our Hands Outreach Project of both LCC Church and LCC Day School!