Just What Is Loaves and Fishes?

Jan 17th, 2010 • Category: Committee News, Social Justice Committee

Loaves and Fishes is an annual church wide, social justice project that involves up to 50 members. We assist in preparing a bag lunch and preparing and serving a meal to the hungry in Trenton New Jersey.

Where
The lunch preparation takes place at UUCWC. The meal service takes place at St Mary’s Cathedral in Trenton, New Jersey.

When
Friday, March 26, and Saturday, March 27, 2010

The Background
The Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK) and other organizations serve meals to the hungry in Trenton during the week. There is no meal service on Saturday or Sunday. A group of churches and other organizations fill that void by serving meals on the weekend. One such food provider is Loaves and Fishes at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Loaves and Fishes serves meals on most Saturdays. These meals purchased, prepared and served by volunteers from many churches and service organizations throughout central New Jersey. One Saturday a year, UUCWC and the Princeton UU Church work together to provide one of these Saturday meals along with a brown bag lunch for the following day. The need is great. Over 800 meals are served on a typical Saturday.

What’s in it for me?
If you help out on Saturday, Loaves and Fishes is an opportunity to come face to face with the working poor, homeless, disabled and mentally ill in Trenton, who are unable to fend for themselves. Making lunches on Friday night,  is  a chance to make a meal with your own hands, that might be the only meal of the day for those eating it.

Please consider helping this year.

Ed Dobrowolski