Soup
Kitchen Christmas Lunch
The end of
the year Christmas party for the customers of the four churches involved
in supplying bread and soup during the year at the Lansdowne station
will be held on Thursday 15 November. As is the custom, inter alia,
chickens, rice, rolls and canned fruit are supplied by the
congregational members of the churches involved. From past experience
about 300 customers turn up for this happy and entertaining occasion.
The soup kitchen committee relies very heavily on the support of members
of our congregation and we appeal to you for your support for this very
special event of our church’s activity which falls under the auspices of
MTN – Mission to the Needy.
Donations of cash, and of the ingredients mentioned above, will be very
welcome and much appreciated, not only by our customers, but also by the
members of the congregation who make soup and supply bread throughout
the year.
We thank you in anticipation for your much appreciated support.
Johann Barnard 021 685 5407 |
|
|
A Short History of St Andrew's Involvement in the
Lansdowne Soup Kitchen
On Monday, the 4th September, 1995, volunteers from St Andrews did their
first stint at the Soup Kitchen.
It all arose from the fact that my husband and I were representatives
for St Andrews in CUMIC (Churches United Mission in Claremont), a now
defunct Body which was a loose association of different churches in the
Claremont area and which was involved in the St Saviour's Open Door and
various other community related happenings. Unfortunately CUMIC
disbanded because of lack of support and the Open Door at the same time.
However, the Catholic Church, Our Lady of Help for Christians, had
started to operate a Soup Kitchen in the Lansdowne Station Bicycle Shed,
with the help of St Aidan's, the Lansdowne Methodist Church and Christ
the King.
John and I were told that Christ the King wanted to give up their
involvement and asked if St Andrews be interested in taking their place.
We discussed this with Keith Griffiths, our Rector at the time, and he
suggested that as we were both on Parish Council we should get their
support but that we should suggest only helping on alternate Mondays.
The rest is history. When we went to the parish we enrolled 33 helpers,
to either make soup or to help at the Soup Kitchen itself. 10 if the
original 33 still help! Since 1995. St Andrews has supplied about 100
litres of soup and bread for a hundred or so needy "clients"
every alternate Monday lunchtime.
In late November we join the other churches to give our "clients" and
others in need a Christmas Lunch, usually a very joyous affair and held
either at St Aidan's or the Lansdowne Methodist Church. This will be
repeated again this year on 16th November.
Johan Barnard assumed responsibility for managing our participation in
the Soup Kitchen three years ago. He will be asking sometime in November
for your further assistance in this wonderful effort. I can only say
that you will never regret being one of us!
Hazel Hampton |
|
|
