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Worcester Fellowship
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Making Lunch:
Lunch is not the purpose of our ministry, but it matters a great deal to our congregation! The food is the first connection that most make to Worcester Fellowship, and is the bond that holds our community together. In addition, many housed congregations find that making lunch at coffee hour binds THEM to each other, and to this ministry, as well.

As we gather for food and worship we re-create an image of Jesus feeding 5000 (plus women and children!) Whatever we can do to create the feeling of plenty in a world that is often not enough is greatly appreciated!

Won't you consider helping out?
Contact Ellie to arrange a time. Bring a group of up to 15 people and attend from 12:15 until 2:30pm. Be sure to let Ellie know if you are bringing youth and see the youth guidelines if you are.

 

 

How Many Come?

The number of sandwiches is an estimate. In good weather we serve about 100 people at lunch, and another 30 as we walk
up main street.

In the rain, and on first Sundays, when people have received checks, we serve forty to sixty.

Winter worship with the sun shining brings out 50-60, while a cold and wet day may mean 40. Of course the cold also makes people hungrier, so having a third sandwich is a treat.

Many people choose two sandwiches when we have plenty.

WHERE AND WHEN?

Deliver lunch Sunday afternoon by 12:15 to the plaza behind city hall on Front Street in Worcester. (Park on Front Street in Winter, Franklin Street in Summer.)
While we don't eat until about 1:00 it really helps your group if we can tell you about set-up at 12:15. And it helps us get organized!

We hope that some members of your group will share lunch and worship. If you are bringing a large group, make extra sandwiches. The ministry is about sharing and we expect participants to eat with our congregation.

LUNCH ONE AND TWO

Lunch ONE is 60 sandwiches and snacks (plus one for each member of your team). Please bag and label the lunches.
If you can bring a cooler with juice or hot chocolate, and cups to serve, that is great. (Let us know!) Other optional items listed below are welcome.

Lunch TWO is another sixty sandwiches and snacks (plus one for each member of your team). Please bag and label the lunches. Other optional items listed below are welcome.

OPTIONAL ADDITIONAL ITEMS

Perishable Snacks: Homemade cookies, brownies, and other perishable snacks are a treasure. These are not required, but are widely appreciated! Bring NO MORE than one for each sandwich made. Put these in the bags.

Fruit: Fruit is very popular. Bananas, peaches, pears, berries, oranges, tangerines, etc. Also containers of applesauce or fruit compote... don't forget spoons! Apples are difficult to eat. Bring about 1 fruit item for every 2 sandwhiches. Leave these outside the lunch bag.

Hard-Boiled Eggs: Soft and nutritous, these are very popular. Decorated, they make every Sunday about resurrection! Just 4 dozen eggs expands lunch beautifully, but we can use as much as 1 egg for every sandwich. Leave these outside the lunch bag.

Unperishable Snacks: Chips, nutri-grain bars, store bought cookies packages of crackers & peanut butter or assorted crackers can be inexpensively bought in bulk packages at BJs, Sam, etc., and are especially handy because we save extras for a week when we are short on sandwiches. In general choose items that are soft and chewy; many of our congregation do not have good teeth. Put one in each bag, if you bring extra keep them separate. We often save these for another week when we have unexpectedly large crowds.

Drinks: We use about two cans of powdered fruit juice mix a week when it is warm, and two cans of instant hot chocolate when it is cold. If you bring a can we'll use it the next week. And CUPS!

Socks: There seems to be no limit to the number of socks we can use. It would be great to have at least 100 pair every week-but we could easily hand out 200. White, new, men's and women's sport socks. Crew are great in the summer, longer ones in the winter. If you have time, unbag the socks and fold each pair into a bundle. Limit smaller sizes to 10% of the total, consider buying a few packages of very large socks.

Hats, Gloves, Scarves: These are popular items all winter long. Tight knit and dark colors seem to be the preference. Leather work gloves are popular as well. No children's sizes needed, and very limited women's sizes.

Underwear: We hand out single pairs of mens and women's underwear if it is requested. Please bring these separately from socks; we have a volunteer who organizes sizes and bags these items for a future week.

PLEASE NOTE: We do not have a clothing ministry. Please do not bring clothing to worship. The Corner Shop in Holden is a supporter of our ministry, and provides clothing for our parishioners in need, and we'd love if you donated your clothing there.

Miscellaneous Larger Items: Hand Cleaner: we need a large container for worship every quarter or so.
Powdered fruit punch mix: we make 5 gallons each warm Sunday. Powdered Hot Chocolate Mix: 5 gallons per winter Sunday.
Cups: we use 100-120 per week, cold in summer, hot cups in winter.
Pizza: for about 10 people on second sundays at 4pm.
Old Umbrellas! We leave them out when it looks like it might rain.

Other Individual Items to hand out: Gifts for holidays: we've given out red scarves for pentecost, colored eggs for easter, soft candy bars for Christmas. Creative ideas welcome!
Bus Tokens are really needed! Dunkin Donuts cards or McDonald's Gift Certificates in the summer give access to the bathroom while the library is closed.
Individual sized hand sanitizer is very popular.

 

 

 

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Rev. Elizabeth M. Magill
pastorliz@worcesterfellowship.org
508-450-0431

 

 

 
 

Worcester Fellowship
PO Box 3510 Worcester MA 01613-3510
www.worcesterfellowship.org