Lots Of Delicious Cake

Jane, Diana and Dorrie, our wonderful volunteer servers, worked really hard today.  They helped serve 310 meals and there was a constant line to get inside for for nearly an hour and a half after we opened our doors at 11 a.m.

Our guests got to eat delicious cake at the Wednesday Community Meal today thanks to the generosity of Baker & Spice which donated an assortment of flavors for us to serve. The local bakery's four-layer, all-butter cakes are made with only the best ingredients and are sooo goood. It's such a pleasure to be able to treat our guests. Thank you Baker & Spice!

German Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Ganache Cake

Black & White Cake

Carrot Cake

Latte Cake

The Wednesday Community Meal is very fortunate to have the support of Baker & Spice and other generous businesses in our community because their donations keep our operating costs down and help us feed everyone who comes to Trinity Episcopal Cathedral between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Wednesdays.

In addition to the cake, we served soup, salad and an assortment of entrees. We started out with homemade meatloaf and then moved on to chicken skewers, fish, ham and finally chicken curry. Our guests were very happy.

We served 310 meals.

Last Community Meal Of 2012

Santa Claus? Or is it longtime volunteer Dan? Whoever it is, he worked very hard serving coffee, tea and hot chocolate and made our guests smile.

Today was our last Wednesday Community Meal of 2012.
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral will be closed the Wednesday after Christmas so the next service will be on January 2, 2013.

It's been a busy year at the Wednesday Community Meal. Every month we've seen the number of meals we serve continue to rise. We've also increased our gleaning to help fight the increase in food costs. Without the support of organizations and businesses like The Oregon Food Bank, Good Samaritian Hospital, Pizza Schmizza, Starbucks, Baker & Spice, Spring Hill Organic Farm, Phil's Meat Market and Grand Central Bakery, we couldn't feed our guests with our limited budget. The gleaning has been a real blessing to our program.

When we started the Wednesday Lunch in 2004, there were just two of us handing out peanut butter sandwiches and if we served 50 we thought that was huge.

In the Spring of 2008 we served our first full-service indoor meal and our numbers were hardly ever over 150 for that first year.

Now, four years later, we regularly serve between 250 and 320 meals each Wednesday. Guest come for the food but I believe they return because of the hospitality. Everyone is welcome and treated with kindness.

Thanks to our wonderful hardworking volunteers, we served 289 meals today.

We had numerous meal changes today. One of the most popular was roasted pork with gravy, asparagus and a baked potato.

With school out for Winter Break, we had extra help from some young volunteers today. Here is high school student Zane stirring a pan of teriyaki chicken.

The meal couldn't go on without our hardworking dishwashers. Longtime volunteer Bill even smiles as he works.