06/16/2026
Sunday was a beautiful day to serve our differently sheltered friends!
Pineapple shrimp fried rice
Penne a la vodka with sweet peas
Smoked wings
Southern baked macaroni and cheese
Beans and weens
Chicken broccoli rice casserole
Antipasto salad with pepperoni, asiago cheese, plum tomatoes, and marinated artichoke hearts
Rachel and Safa's breaded boneless pork chops with rice
Pepperoni bagel pizzas
Steamed broccoli
Buttered corn
Coleslaw
Snacks, desserts, and drinks.
We celebrated a birthday on Sunday. Carol made a beautiful chocolate peanut butter cake for him and we sang loudly and off key.
Thank you Bethany Church of the Nazarene for your kitchen, Country Gourmet at the Market and Panera Bread for your food donations, those who picked up food donations, to everyone who purchased items from the wish list, and to my volunteers. Jerry, Trish, Bob, Carol, Savannah, Alexa, Chelsea, Danielle, George, Kathy, and Sarah! Kathy and Sarah were first time volunteers this week and they blended right in immediately! They asked good questions, enjoy cooking, and came with us to serve. Sarah also came back with us to clean up after. We didn't have time to do any cleaning before we left to serve so the kitchen was ridiculous. Thankfully, between the time saving panliners and having Bob, Danielle, Sarah, and Chelsea washing pans and cleaning up the kitchen, we were actually done by 6:40 p.m. That might be a new record. Many hands make light work.
We were joined by Jennie and Dayspring Ministries Sunday.
Unfortunately, we have experienced some thievery. I don't know how someone could steal from a church, from the homeless, but it's happened more than once. If you are dropping off a donation, please let me know so I can get there soon after to take items inside. I don't live but a minute and a half drive from the church. I'll be going by frequently. What these people don't understand is that I would give the shirt off my back. GIVE. Don't steal it! Matter of fact, I have literally given someone the clothes off my back when she was on her way to rehab and the bus was ready to leave. She didn't have a bra. I had a tank top with a bra built in. We went into the bus station bathroom and I took it off and gave it to her. Many of these items are donated for specific people and for specific purposes. Pray for the people who stole these items that they will have a change of heart.
Thank you to those who have donated tents. We handed out everything we received over the past week. The solar fans have all been handed out and the power banks.
Our friends are eating up the art supplies. They love coloring books, puzzle books, anything to keep their hands and minds busy during down time.
Thank you for your continued prayers for our team and our differently sheltered friends. Please include the kitchen. We take out at least 26 pans of food every week. That's what we can fit in the ovens. One of the ovens has been on the blink for a while and now it's just about given up. That's eight pans of food we have to figure out another way to heat unless it is fixed. Also, the ice machine stopped making ice when the machine was half full. Super important to us as we ice all of our coolers of bottled water and the cold drinks that we mix in the drink coolers. We also have frozen ice pops to take out but we can't do that if we can't keep them frozen.
Somehow in the chaos we managed to forget the sandwiches at the church. We had tuna salad with tomato on rolls and PB&j on panera's white bread. We passed them on to Impact Ministries, along with pastries and bagels and bread, who served them Monday night.
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