The last Sunday of every month we feed the homeless here in Tulsa. This time we fed 102 meals, and it ran smoothly! The volunteers are experienced, and can run the whole thing without direction.
We got pizza donated from pizza hut:
With the requested macaroni and cheese that we serve every month.
Chili and corn is popular:
We assemble foam carry out trays two at a time. These are assembled into boxes based on what we know how many live at each camp.
Here's the green bean casserole and the chicken Alfredo;
We have requests for these, so we serve it often! The macaroni and cheese is another by request item. She puts cream cheese and straight cream in it so it really pops!
Here's two volunteers boxing up food:
A lot of logistics go into this part. It's common to have several deliveries sent by one car. They must be right, and the 'close' ones are loaded together! We throw in the desserts here, and send a 5 gallon container of tea or lemonade (we fill a lot of drink bottles too). We usually have 3 delivery drivers, with a ride along to help them unload. With about 2 trip each, we have it covered pretty well!
I apologize for the half full roasters, I usually take the pictures before we begin serving. Here I just forgot the pictures, until we slowed after the first 60 or so!
The volunteers have become skilled enough that most of the conversations are just visiting and catching up. So they have a good time on top of getting the homeless fed! They come from four different churches, and three different denominations; but they've become good friends doing this meal together. We work out of a food bank leased by one of the churches, so we have a roof over our heads! We served under a pair of canopies for about a decade, and had all the fun with bad weather I want. Very glad to be under cover now, we 'enjoyed' temperatures from 18°F to 110°F under those canopies!
My big worry, is as the economy continues to tank, more will need this kind of help! Can we keep up with the increased loading? In the past we fed close to 300, but that's significantly more difficult...and we're out of practice. We are gaining about 5 a month, hard to plan for a moving target!
Be blessed!
glad to see you still being active and helping the community! Keep it up man!
They need help, who am I to ignore their need?
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More will probably need this kind of help. Thank you so much for doing it.
Here's the gardening contest I spoke to you about. I think you have valuable information to impart to us all!
I'll look into it, sounds fun. If nothing else it will be some good reading!
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You must be a great cook I strongly believe
My mother taught me how to cook, and I keep on learning too. So I do alright!
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It is this type of gathering I actually want to be among 😁
You'd be welcome, but Tulsa is likely too far. When we started, I had one roaster of chicken and rice, with a couple of gallons of macaroni and cheese. We set up on a folding table, and fed 68. There were two of us....
So find a friend, and start something, LOL!
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i want to eat them all
It was good food, but we ran out; about the same time as we ran out of homeless people.
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feeding the homeless? that is very generous.
They are good people in a bad spot! GOD tells us to help them....
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What a great job and what a great work, a lot of synchronisation and help to others. It is worrying to see how many people are in need, homeless or unable to buy their own food and this is growing day by day in all parts of the world... a complicated future.
True the food bank often has trouble filling all the requests. Every week there are more!
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Yes, but I believe that everything will be fine, God provides.
He does, and always more than is required!
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He does provide for us all! Removes a lot of worrying knowing he has our back.
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It's so nice to see you helping these people every Sunday like this and giving them food, it's very happy and we all should do this.
I can't afford every Sunday, costs and volunteers would be a real problem! We had talked about another feed day, but haven't managed yet....
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Due to inflation, it has become impossible to afford such things here in our country.
If GOD wants you to do it, he will provide what is needed! I've seen it too many times, to question that....
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Yeah I totally agree with you.
It's ultimately up to Him, and He will supply!
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Good.
#hive #posh
This was a good weekend!
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Good
Had some very happy homeless, who ate very well
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Helping the poor should be done by all who have money
When the dollar crashes, those who have money will be cleaned out. Help will be hard to find in these new hard times!
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The times ahead are going to be more difficult and expensive
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