Christmas in Fountain City

Traditions grow up in neighborhoods and churches the way that they do in families. Fountain City, a fictional city in the Deep South, is no different. Their most recent tradition is the Faith Promise campaign that raises money for missions and feeding the hungry. A noble and necessary work, over time, the key to Faith Promise's ongoing and invigorating success is attributed to Mrs. Bopp's Miracle Fudge, a new holiday recipe invented each year by a fudge-making genius to kick-off the Christmas season and the fund-raising campaign. People who have more than a sweet tooth to satisfy line up for her fudge believing that good things happen when you eat it. But better things begin to happen when Mrs. Bopp can suddenly no longer make the famous fudge. The recipes that have become traditions are left behind when the life-energizing force of Love itself takes a greater hold and moves the citizens of Fountain City to taste and see that the power of Christmas itself - its joy and its truth - are far more potent than any man-made recipe or tradition.

Daphne Simpkins has written over two hundred articles, essays and short stories which have been published in the United States and Canada in periodicals like The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, Tropic Magazine, The Christian Century, the Christian Courier, Esprit, and many others. Named recently by MOSAIC magazine as a top speaker in the state, Daphne is an active member of The Alabama Humanities Foundation Road Scholars Speakers Bureau. She may be contacted at DaphneSimpkins@gmail.com.


Genre: General Fiction