Above: A whole lot of members of the Southborough and Pilgrim Church neighborhood loved a free dinner courtesy of the church and volunteers. (contributed images)
I’ve heard of Pancake Breakfasts and Spaghetti Dinners. I by no means knew that having a pancake breakfast for dinner is a well-liked custom the evening earlier than Ash Wednesday.
This week, Pilgrim Church supplied tons of of the meals to the neighborhood at no cost. They reached out with the information and images to share with the neighborhood:
On Shrove Tuesday, Pilgrim Church held a community-wide free Pancake Dinner drive-thru on the church on Frequent Road. “We acknowledged that individuals and households are extra confused and hurried than ever earlier than, juggling work, faculty, and residential life. We wished to provide again and assist individuals take an evening off from worrying about what to do for dinner, whereas additionally celebrating a well-loved custom of consuming pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. After years of COVID separation, church volunteers lastly discovered
ourselves in our native habitat. It felt nice to be collectively once more within the church kitchen feeding individuals and spreading love.” mentioned Sarah Whiteman, Pilgrim Church Deacon.
Reverend Charley Eastman mentioned, “Our church’s imaginative and prescient is Rising Religion, Strengthening Households, and Loving All. This was an excellent alternative for Pilgrim Church to serve individuals, to acknowledge how a lot they do and the way exhausting they’re working
to maintain going by means of these quickly-changing and infrequently troublesome instances.” Rev. Eastman celebrated that the church was in a position to serve over 225 meals consisting of pancakes, actual maple syrup, sausage, and recent fruit. There have been even vegetarian and gluten-free choices. “We wished to verify nobody was disregarded and that everybody felt welcome to come back and have a free meal,” Rev. Eastman mentioned.
Everybody from the neighborhood was invited. The church reached out utilizing their contacts in the neighborhood in addition to utilizing social media. Church volunteers made cellphone calls and despatched emails to neighborhood teams asking for the invitation to be forwarded. “We had been particularly honored to serve the Southborough Police and Hearth Departments and a few of their households. They achieve this a lot for the neighborhood and we had been blissful to have the ability to do one thing for them.” mentioned Daybreak Sorensen,
Director of Kids’s Ministries.
General, the occasion was very well-received. Individuals who got here to choose up their dinners had been blissful to seek out all the main points accounted for. There have been Mardi-Gras beads handed out with each meal to make issues a bit of extra enjoyable and to tie within the recognition that Shrove Tuesday is the day earlier than Lent begins. Enjoyable designs and inspiring messages had been drawn on the paper serviette rings by the kids of the church as a means of giving youngsters a possibility for inventive expression whereas additionally collaborating in giving again to their neighborhood. The addition of actual maple syrup and use of compostable containers happy those that are aware of the surroundings.
Pilgrim Church volunteers had been energized by the success of this occasion and are already planning the subsequent neighborhood broad occasion! Keep tuned for extra at www.pilgrimchurch.us.
