Are you looking for a service/outreach opportunity? Checkout Sunday Dinner @ FUMC
Sunday Dinner is a free, Sunday afternoon community
dinner program designed to help those who are in need of a warm meal, or just a warm smile and some fellowship on a Sunday afternoon. Our original intent was to reach those who were homeless and/or seriously in need of a warm, well-balanced dinner. However,
being in the Rochester suburbs we have less homeless, and more elderly. So, our guests tend to run about 80% elderly, who are
probably there more for the fellowship than from a need for food, and 20% people who are in low-income or jobless, subsidized housing,
situations who do need a good meal.
Our guests arrive around Noon for a well balanced sit-down (they sit down and we serve them everything
and then clear it all away) dinner that we serve to them around 12:30p. Typically we serve around 45-50 people in the Fellowship
Hall and deliver another 55-60 to people who are unable the get to the church for dinner.
Here is a
typical “Sunday Dinner” Sunday for us:
9am Cooks arrive to start preparing the dinner
10am Setup
crew comes in to set up the dining area
Noon Guests
start arriving, Servers arrive, Deliveries get staged
12:15pm Deliveries get
picked up crew arrives
12:30pm Blessing, dinner serving starts, Cleanup
1:00pm Everthing is served, cooks go home, some guests start to leave
1:15pm Most guests are gone, Servers are finishing cleaning up the dining area and putting tables and chairs away, vacuuming the floor
1:30pm Servers are done and gone
2:00pm Cleanup crew is finished washing
and putting away all dishes and goes home
Set-up – This job takes about 30 minutes.
Cooks – This is the group that plans,
cooks and puts the food on the plates.
Servers – These are the people who take care of our guests.
Clean-up –
these are the folks who wash all of the dishes and put everything away.
Deliveries – these are the people who pick up the dinners
from the kitchen and deliver them to people who cannot come to the dinners.
Greeters – these are the people
who stand at the doors to welcome people to dinner. They start at noon and leave when we do the blessing around 12:30p.
Desserts –
all of our desserts are home-made by the congregation. .
Volunteers are usually scheduled to work once every three months
(once per Quarter), and Quarterly “team” listings are emailed and published in the Cross & Flame Newsletter.
If you
would like to volunteer for Sunday Dinner or would just like more information about Sunday Dinner, you can call Mark Renfro @ 585-721-2513.
