I realize the photos below are oversized but they look better big, so I'm not worried about bleeding off the side of the page.
Tonight I'll post some pictures from Johanna's Graduation Project night.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Mark's Graduation Project Night
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| Mark Carr and his wonderful mother, Donna |
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| Now that's a good looking plate of food.....but where's the Deviled Eggs? |
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| Group picture at the end of the night |
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| Blake showing off his plastic glove |
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| For some reason the condiments are receiving a lot of special attention |
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| Cathy in the kitchen |
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| In line at the first stop |
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| Winding down at the Mercy House |
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| Some of our 1st stop friends |
.....someone to beat the crap out of the Dallas Cowgirls on national TV
BARBECUE!
The Boy Scout troop at FBC had their annual Boston Butt Sale this weekend. Wayne Currie, one of our weekly regulars, is a troop leader and spent Friday night and Saturday helping. We had 8 butts donated to us for feeding on Tuesday nights. Wayne brought them and put them in the fridge for us.
We came in yesterday and started chopping it. Man, it was good. It would not be a good thing for me to be out there when they are cooking those things. I don't have enough self control.
MY plan for supper was to have Barbecue and whatever leftover stuff I had in the freezer, that way I would have more room next week for our Thanksgiving meal leftovers. But then God started sending more and more food down the line for us to use last night and I wound up not using one single thing out of the freezer.
We had:
BARBECUE
COLE SLAW
POTATO SALAD
SQUASH CASSEROLE
YAMS
MASHED POTATOES
COLLARDS
BREAD
DESSERT
SWEET TEA/WATER
and passed out bananas to people as they left.
The folks putting it all together were:
ELAINE / CECELIA / LIZZIE / JOHANNA / BRIANNA / PEYTON / TOM / ELLYN / WAYNE / SHEA / ALEX / BRETT / LUKE / RICHARD / GRAYSON / DAVE / MERRITT / MADELYN / JENNA / ELENA / BEN / CHARLES
We were getting a light rain at the second stop but it quit as soon as we said grace.
Had over 60 people at the first stop again for the second week in a row. The increase in people at the first stop is making it harder to serve seconds, because we need to insure we have enough for the second stop.
This coming Tuesday is our Thanksgiving meal. If anyone wants to donate a turkey(s) or dessert, just give me a call or post on here and I'll get up with you.
We're going to pick up the guys at the 2nd stop and bring them to the church for their meal. We do that for the Super Bowl party but haven't ever done it on a Tuesday night. Looking forward to it.
THE ONLY THINGS I NEED FOR A PERFECT THANKSGIVING:
Turkey
Mashed Potatoes w/gravy
and........
The Boy Scout troop at FBC had their annual Boston Butt Sale this weekend. Wayne Currie, one of our weekly regulars, is a troop leader and spent Friday night and Saturday helping. We had 8 butts donated to us for feeding on Tuesday nights. Wayne brought them and put them in the fridge for us.
We came in yesterday and started chopping it. Man, it was good. It would not be a good thing for me to be out there when they are cooking those things. I don't have enough self control.
MY plan for supper was to have Barbecue and whatever leftover stuff I had in the freezer, that way I would have more room next week for our Thanksgiving meal leftovers. But then God started sending more and more food down the line for us to use last night and I wound up not using one single thing out of the freezer.
We had:
BARBECUE
COLE SLAW
POTATO SALAD
SQUASH CASSEROLE
YAMS
MASHED POTATOES
COLLARDS
BREAD
DESSERT
SWEET TEA/WATER
and passed out bananas to people as they left.
The folks putting it all together were:
ELAINE / CECELIA / LIZZIE / JOHANNA / BRIANNA / PEYTON / TOM / ELLYN / WAYNE / SHEA / ALEX / BRETT / LUKE / RICHARD / GRAYSON / DAVE / MERRITT / MADELYN / JENNA / ELENA / BEN / CHARLES
We were getting a light rain at the second stop but it quit as soon as we said grace.
Had over 60 people at the first stop again for the second week in a row. The increase in people at the first stop is making it harder to serve seconds, because we need to insure we have enough for the second stop.
This coming Tuesday is our Thanksgiving meal. If anyone wants to donate a turkey(s) or dessert, just give me a call or post on here and I'll get up with you.
We're going to pick up the guys at the 2nd stop and bring them to the church for their meal. We do that for the Super Bowl party but haven't ever done it on a Tuesday night. Looking forward to it.
THE ONLY THINGS I NEED FOR A PERFECT THANKSGIVING:
Turkey
Mashed Potatoes w/gravy
and........
Monday, November 7, 2011
...outside might be another way of doing that.
(This might ramble and take a while, but stay with me......)
Our normal setup for both stops is to go outside and put out four tables (2 for food, 1 for cutlery/desserts, and 1 for drinks), get the servers in place, say grace and then have the folks come through in a line and get their food. That's the way we've done it since we started years ago. It's functional and it works.
And at the second stop, which is not at the church but the parking lot of the Mercy House, it's the pretty much the way we have to do it.
But...
I think we can do better at the first stop. I think we need to do better at the first stop.
In the past two years, the number of folks coming to eat at the first stop has grown significantly. It's a rare night when we don't have 40 people there when we say grace to start, which means 40 people get in a line to be served food. Depending on what we're serving and who's doing it, it can take a while to get that 40th person (and the ones who walk up afterward) through the line.
As much as I struggle with people standing in line to get food, I'm struggling even more with having them sit outside of the church when there's an empty dining hall inside of it. That's where we bring them when it's raining. If I was one of the folks being fed, I think I might wonder Why can't we eat there all the time?
So after Thanksgiving I think we're going to try and make a change in how we do the first stop. We're going to eat inside Fireside Hall every week. And instead of setting up inside the exact same way we do outside, do things differently. No lines. Have them come in and sit down at the tables and serve them there. There's a couple of ways that can work and it might take some trial and error to see how we can do it best. In a perfect world*, I can see us eating family style. Have one or two "table hosts" at each table and bring the food out in platters for each table and have the "table hosts" serve our friends, with others running drinks and food back and forth from the kitchen. Because that's a normal meal, sitting in chairs at a table, not balancing it on your knees in a courtyard on a short concrete wall.
Would that make things harder for us? Heck yeah. One of the beauties of the way we do it now is no matter who comes or how often they've come, I can plug them in just about anywhere and we're fine. the new way would require a much more coordinated effort, especially from the kitchen to the table. And it would mean doing two different styles of preparation between first and second stops.
This isn't written in stone and there things to work out before we try it, but it seems like a direction to move toward. We've been at it long enough that if we do this, I think the people we serve will trust us enough to go along with it.
I'll keep you posted on how it's going.
We talk a lot on Tuesday nights about showing and bringing the Kingdom of God to the folks we serve. Showing them they are welcome to eat inside the walls of our church instead of feeding them ....
*which we don't live in, so we might have to work up to that a little slowly. Maybe make plates up and bring them to the table or something similar to that at first.
Our normal setup for both stops is to go outside and put out four tables (2 for food, 1 for cutlery/desserts, and 1 for drinks), get the servers in place, say grace and then have the folks come through in a line and get their food. That's the way we've done it since we started years ago. It's functional and it works.
And at the second stop, which is not at the church but the parking lot of the Mercy House, it's the pretty much the way we have to do it.
But...
I think we can do better at the first stop. I think we need to do better at the first stop.
In the past two years, the number of folks coming to eat at the first stop has grown significantly. It's a rare night when we don't have 40 people there when we say grace to start, which means 40 people get in a line to be served food. Depending on what we're serving and who's doing it, it can take a while to get that 40th person (and the ones who walk up afterward) through the line.
As much as I struggle with people standing in line to get food, I'm struggling even more with having them sit outside of the church when there's an empty dining hall inside of it. That's where we bring them when it's raining. If I was one of the folks being fed, I think I might wonder Why can't we eat there all the time?
So after Thanksgiving I think we're going to try and make a change in how we do the first stop. We're going to eat inside Fireside Hall every week. And instead of setting up inside the exact same way we do outside, do things differently. No lines. Have them come in and sit down at the tables and serve them there. There's a couple of ways that can work and it might take some trial and error to see how we can do it best. In a perfect world*, I can see us eating family style. Have one or two "table hosts" at each table and bring the food out in platters for each table and have the "table hosts" serve our friends, with others running drinks and food back and forth from the kitchen. Because that's a normal meal, sitting in chairs at a table, not balancing it on your knees in a courtyard on a short concrete wall.
Would that make things harder for us? Heck yeah. One of the beauties of the way we do it now is no matter who comes or how often they've come, I can plug them in just about anywhere and we're fine. the new way would require a much more coordinated effort, especially from the kitchen to the table. And it would mean doing two different styles of preparation between first and second stops.
This isn't written in stone and there things to work out before we try it, but it seems like a direction to move toward. We've been at it long enough that if we do this, I think the people we serve will trust us enough to go along with it.
I'll keep you posted on how it's going.
We talk a lot on Tuesday nights about showing and bringing the Kingdom of God to the folks we serve. Showing them they are welcome to eat inside the walls of our church instead of feeding them ....
*which we don't live in, so we might have to work up to that a little slowly. Maybe make plates up and bring them to the table or something similar to that at first.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
11/1/11
Lack of routine is killing me! Gotta set aside the exact same time every week to post or it gets pushed aside.
Working on it.....
Tonight was JOHANNA's Graduation Project. She planned, shopped, and took my place tonight making sure things got done. She did a great job. She also learned the hard way the benefits of making lists.
MENU
Cheesy Baked Spaghetti
Green beans
Yams
Garlic Bread
Desserts
Sweet Tea/Water
JOHANNA / LAUREN / LINDSAY / BRIANNA / CONNOR / BILLY / CHET / HOLLAND / MADELYNE / MERRITT / CAYLA / NICKY / DAVE / TAMMY / TWIG / CHUCK / CHARLES /
DON / BLAKE / GEORGE / STEVE / CREEEEEECH! /MARK / TJ / EBY /
I'll post the pics from last night when I get them from Don.
Working on it.....
Tonight was JOHANNA's Graduation Project. She planned, shopped, and took my place tonight making sure things got done. She did a great job. She also learned the hard way the benefits of making lists.
MENU
Cheesy Baked Spaghetti
Green beans
Yams
Garlic Bread
Desserts
Sweet Tea/Water
JOHANNA / LAUREN / LINDSAY / BRIANNA / CONNOR / BILLY / CHET / HOLLAND / MADELYNE / MERRITT / CAYLA / NICKY / DAVE / TAMMY / TWIG / CHUCK / CHARLES /
DON / BLAKE / GEORGE / STEVE / CREEEEEECH! /MARK / TJ / EBY /
I'll post the pics from last night when I get them from Don.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
ELAINE / CECELIA / LIZZIE / CATHY / CHUCK / CHARLES / WAYNE / STEVE / TOM / ASHLEY / SAVANNAH / ELLYN / NINA / PERRY / BRETT / HUNTER / JOHANNA / LINDSAY / LAUREN / BRIANNA / PEYTON / ANNA FRAZIER / PEYSON / MERRITT / HOLLAND / SHANE / TREY / MORGZILLA / CREEEEEECH / BLAKE / MARK / TJ / J.BOGGS / EBY /
Clam Chowder / Vegetable Beef
Baked Potatoes
Meatloaf / gravy
Field peas
Ice Cream Sandwiches
Sweet Tea / Water / Coffee
Had a pretty basic meal planned and then God just kept giving and giving, so we wound up with a table full of food to pass out. We also passed out To-Go bags as they left, with sandwiches and snacks inside.
Clam Chowder / Vegetable Beef
Baked Potatoes
Meatloaf / gravy
Field peas
Ice Cream Sandwiches
Sweet Tea / Water / Coffee
Had a pretty basic meal planned and then God just kept giving and giving, so we wound up with a table full of food to pass out. We also passed out To-Go bags as they left, with sandwiches and snacks inside.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
....and Cruise.
Brisket?
Two things come to my mind when I hear "Brisket":
1. Old women up north asking the butcher if the brisket is any good
and
2. Food Network shows about Texas BBQ joints
The way we cook it (low and slow), it comes out tasting like super good pot roast, and the way we serve it (w/Sweet Baby ray's BBQ sauce as an option), it's more like the Texas stuff.
But I don't get hung up on the words.
It was flat out tasty.
We had Brisket sandwiches last night. Got these nice big rolls- the exact ones Burger King uses on their BIG FISH and CHICKEN sandwiches- and put some Velveeta cheese potatoes and green beans with it. Man, it was good.
And so was the help:
ELAINE / CECELIA / BLAZE / THOMAS / TJ / MARK / EBY / DAVE / JENNA / TWIG / LAUREN / LINDSAY / JOHANNA / BRIANNA / JAMIE / BLAKE / STEVE / JBOGGS / MORGZILLA / CREEEEEECH / JANE / ANDY / CHARLES / TREY /
MENU
Brisket sandwiches
Cheesy Potatoes
Green beans
Banana pudding
Sweet Tea / Water
(for seconds we had cheese quesadillas and BBQ chicken. Random? Yes. But we had it to pass out, so we did)
Ate inside at the first stop because it had rained and was still a little wet.
Got two kids who help regularly doing their Graduation Project on some aspect of Homelessness.
That's it for now. Gotta make like Tom ......
Two things come to my mind when I hear "Brisket":
1. Old women up north asking the butcher if the brisket is any good
and
2. Food Network shows about Texas BBQ joints
The way we cook it (low and slow), it comes out tasting like super good pot roast, and the way we serve it (w/Sweet Baby ray's BBQ sauce as an option), it's more like the Texas stuff.
But I don't get hung up on the words.
It was flat out tasty.
We had Brisket sandwiches last night. Got these nice big rolls- the exact ones Burger King uses on their BIG FISH and CHICKEN sandwiches- and put some Velveeta cheese potatoes and green beans with it. Man, it was good.
And so was the help:
ELAINE / CECELIA / BLAZE / THOMAS / TJ / MARK / EBY / DAVE / JENNA / TWIG / LAUREN / LINDSAY / JOHANNA / BRIANNA / JAMIE / BLAKE / STEVE / JBOGGS / MORGZILLA / CREEEEEECH / JANE / ANDY / CHARLES / TREY /
MENU
Brisket sandwiches
Cheesy Potatoes
Green beans
Banana pudding
Sweet Tea / Water
(for seconds we had cheese quesadillas and BBQ chicken. Random? Yes. But we had it to pass out, so we did)
Ate inside at the first stop because it had rained and was still a little wet.
Got two kids who help regularly doing their Graduation Project on some aspect of Homelessness.
That's it for now. Gotta make like Tom ......
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