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Children’s Homes Employee Turns Chocolate Addiction into Fundraising Festival

Children’s Homes Employee Turns Chocolate
Addiction into Fundraising Festival

October 28, 2008

Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina (BCH) employee Carolyn Adams is taking her love of chocolate and using it to help the children in the institution’s care. Adams is producing a Chocolate Festival on Saturday, November 1 at BCH’s Mills Home campus in Thomasville. Proceeds from the event will help meet the needs of BCH’s boys and girls.

“I’ve always loved chocolate, and the idea for the event has been in the back of my mind for sometime,” said Adams.

An employee since 1996, Adams is the Food Service Manager for BCH’s Weekday Education where she provides nutritious lunches for the program’s preschoolers.

Adams’ goal is to produce an event that appeals to everyone. The first part of the festival is an arts and crafts bazaar where vendors will offer jewelry, woodcrafts, and other items. A “chocoholic shop” will be available offering numerous chocolate items including cake, homemade chocolate sauce, and chocolate soap and bath salts.

The second half of the event is the “Chocolate Banquet,” a special all you can eat buffet served Saturday evening consisting of specialty chocolate entrees. Adams has collected a variety of unique chocolate-based recipes to use for the meal.

“In the last year I came across a cookbook with these recipes and realized chocolate can be a seasoning as well as a treat,” Adams said. “Chocolate will be used along with other traditional seasonings to create the dishes on the buffet.”

Recipes include chocolate spiced pork chops, chicken with cocoa tomato sauce, chocolate chili, and cocoa seasoned roasted vegetables. A chocolate dessert buffet rounds out the menu.

For Adams, the Chocolate Festival is an important way to do something she enjoys while making a difference in something she believes in.

“I work here at Baptist Children’s Homes and want to help the children who are in residence here,” she said. “I believe in the mission to help these boys and girls and want to be a part of it.”

The Chocolate Festival will be located at the Family Resource Center at 503 Biggs Avenue at Mills Home in Thomasville. The arts and crafts bazaar is admission free and will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Chocolate Banquet is at 6 p.m. and costs $20 per adult and $10 for children 12 and under. Proceeds from the banquet benefit Baptist Children’s Homes. The banquet is limited to 50 people. To make a reservation or find out more information, contact Carolyn Adams at 336-906-3398.

Since 1885, Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina has helped children and families. BCH began with one campus, Mills Home in Thomasville, but now provides services in communities across the state.

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