Meal Outreach Ministry

Our Meal Outreach Ministry feeds about 600-700 people a month, through the programs at Guest House, Serenity Inn, and Cross Lutheran Church. Recently a new program has begun supplying bag lunches to homeless outreach center Repairers of the Breach.

Monetary donations are greatly appreciated toward these ministries. Although much of the food is donated through the generosity of our congregation and businesses such as Metcalfe’s Sentry, there are times when food needs to be purchased. Your contributions toward this assures that there will be no shortage of food at any meal. Checks are to be made payable to St. Matthew’s and marked Meal Outreach Ministry or "M.O.M".

If you wish to donate toward any of these items, please make out a check to St. Matthew’s and mark it “Meal Outreach Ministry.”

 

Photos of Cross Lutheran Meal Serving, Feb. 24 [here]
More information about our monthly Cross Lutheran Meal Ministry is on this page [here].

 

Meal Ministry administrator sought

Want to get involved with our vital meal ministry? Do you have administrative gifts that could be used once a month to coordinate a meal for Serenity Inns? This is an opportunity to serve a worthwhile organization by making some phone calls from your home and then, as able, assist­ing with serving the meal on the second Sunday evening of the month. You would work with a list of volunteers who have offered to make food and serve as part of the Meal Outreach Ministry. If interested, please contact Sue Swing at the church office [contact here].

 

Photos: ROTB sandwich-making, Feb. 21
On Feb. 21, volunteers made sandwiches and bag-lunches for Repairers of the Breach. St. Matt's prepares these meals twice a month. See more below [here]. A few photos are below.

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Monthly meal ministries

Guest House - We provide preparers and servers for a meal for 80 men at the Guest House, a homeless shelter, the second Sunday of the month. We meet at church at 5:00 p.m. to carpool.

Serenity Inn - We serve a meal which we provide at Serenity Inn, a drug and alcohol rehab home, for the eight residents there, on the second Sunday evening each month. Volunteers eat dinner alongside the residents and enjoy some fellowship at the same time.

Our largest ministry at Cross Lutheran Church is on the fourth Wednesday of each month, at 11:30 a.m. for a luncheon. We provide all the food and servers for 350 people. Please sign up in the Sunday bulletins, or call the church office, to volunteer for food donations, or to serve, or both.

Bag Lunches for Homeless at Repairers of the Breach - Repairers of the Breach, a homeless outreach center on 13th & Vliet Streets, needs bag lunches for their clients. We supply those lunches on the second and 4th Mondays of each month These lunches will usually be made on Sunday mornings at church.

On Sunday, Jan. 10, there an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel featured the Repairers program for a much-needed rennovatation at their site on Vliet Street. The rennovation is being accomplished through donations. The article is on the Journal Sentinel website [here].

For information about these Meal Ministry Programs, contact the Church Office [here], or sign up in the Sunday bulletin or email Sue Swing or Heather.

 

Cross meal serving August 2009
On August 26, 450 (!) people were fed. THANK YOU for your donations of salads and desserts -- they are very much needed and appreciated! The group needing to be fed is growing. Photos of our meal serving at Cross Lutheran Church on August 26, 2009, are in the St. Matt's photo album [here]. More information about the Cross Lutheran meal ministry [here].

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