Teaching Tree Lake Youth how to 'Cake"
The mission team at The Church at Tree Lake in China Spring, Texas is going to Belize in a week and a half for their annual mission trip. The team includes youth, church members and members of other congregations. They host several fundraisers throughout the year to help raise the funds needed for the trip. They auctioned off a Nook color this year and they usually the host 1-2 Belizian cake auctions each year at dinner on the grounds. A Belizian cake auction if different from a regular/traditional auction in that the bids are placed at $1 increments and ever bid made is paid at the end of the auction whether the bidder won the item or not. For instance if 400 total bids were placed on a cake by 4 different people and person 1 bid 50 times, person 2 bid 100 times person 3 bid 200 times and person 4 bid 50 times and made the last bid. Person 4 wins the cake paying only $50 while person 1 pays $50, person 2 pays $100 and person 3 pays $200...