The Stone Soup Fund
the
story...
A young woman, Maria, had had no employment for two
years, but had worked hard trying to make a future. All of a sudden
she was getting married and needed to feed the town coming for the
wedding.
What was she to do? She had no money. Her wealthy
uncle was not going to lend that kind of money for the town to have a
party because his investments had taken a nosedive, but she was a
clever young lass and knew that if everyone gave a little, then it
could be done. So….
On the morning of her wedding, Maria announced she
was making the best wedding soup ever to be tasted with just one
stone…one stone? Yes. A neighbor lent her the largest pot in the
village to see what she could create with one stone. Maria said she had
the perfect stone ...so she filled the huge pot with water and plunked
in the stone…and watched it come to a boil.
In fact most of the town had heard the rumor and so
came to see this “magic” stone. “Now, this soup tastes good, but if it
had a bit of salt….” said Maria as she kissed her fingers. “I have
salt,” an interested lad exclaimed and ran off.
“Yum,” Maria said. “But with some potatoes, it will
be exquisite.” “I have potatoes,” said the judge of the town and he
went to get a sack.
“Onions really spice it up nicely,” said Maria and
the baker went off for onions.
Then Maria slowly suggested carrots, celery, meat,
etc. Each time she tasted it, the whole village pitched in.
“Oh! The soup is done but I only have one bowl and
spoon,” sighed Maria.
Tables, bowls, spoons…and then flowers and music and
bread came pouring out of the houses…the wedding was the most wonderful
wedding in the village’s history and the soup…everyone agreed it really
was the best soup anyone had ever tasted and all Maria had was one
stone.
Stone Soup…only one stone and a little help from many
people.
The CDCA needs stone soup. We are establishing our Stone Soup Fund to help
the CDCA's operating budget, so we can keep doing everything we're doing and also
pay our electricity, fill our gas tanks and pay our wonderful staff.
How does it work?
We need 100 people to:
- Donate $10 and
- Phone 10 people and
- Get a commitment from each of them to give $10 and also
phone 10
people.
So… 100 people give $10 and get 1,000 people to
give
$10 and get 10,000 people to give just $10.
$10 is very
little. It will be a beautiful thing. It will be $110,000… what lovely soup. Yum!
You
Can Help!
CDCA - Stone Soup
352 Carly Ln, Rock Hill, SC 29732
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