Feeding Programs

Sunday Breakfast Program

The Sunday Breakfast Program is Friendship House’s oldest and most volunteer-intensive ministry. A Sunday breakfast has been served to the homeless in the parish hall of the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew every Sunday for the last fourteen years. The Sunday Breakfast Program currently consisted of twelve church and community sponsors who supplied the required food and volunteers on a rotating basis. Fresh  pastry were also donated weekly by  Dunkin Donuts. Besides the breakfast teams and two Friendship House staff persons, numerous other volunteers come on Sunday to help out where they are needed and to break bread with homeless friends. Through their generosity and caring, an average of one hundred twenty-five homeless men, women and children not only are fed a hot nourishing breakfast, but are also enabled to begin the Lord’s Day of Rest in fellowship and dignity. The breakfast concludes with an optional chapel service, hosted by parishioners of the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew. This service, which averages a weekly congregation of about dozen homeless folks, has served as a wonderful spiritual forum through which joys and sorrows, hope and fears can be shared by the community and lifted in prayer to God.

Andrew's Place Supper Program:

Friendship house operates Andrew's Place, which functions both as a year round emergency shelter for  elderly homeless men and as a short term emergency shelter for recent graduates of residential rehabilitation programs.  A hot, simple supper is provided  every night by volunteer teams from nearly thirty organizations and groups. Besides bringing wonderful meals, nearly all of the 350 volunteers seem to understand that it is community for which we all hunger. Most sit down and eat with the residents, learning their names and sharing their stories. This ministry of table fellowship over the last five years has dramatically improved the communal atmosphere of the shelter.

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