from April 24, 2008
I had an amazing dream last night about our church....young & old folks learning to cook meals in our tremendous kitchen and feeding each other!
When I awoke, my mind just raced about potential of something like this. Here's the flood of thoughts:
* preparing "Dinners by Design" types of meals for families in area (they come prepare in kitchen & freeze then take out and reheat)
* using the monies collected from such a venture for seed money for outreach to the hungry, homeless, &/or unchurched ministries
* pick up meals on their way home from work
* family activity or childcare drop-off times (evenings, weekends)
* inviting hungry/homeless (from food pantry/PADS/others) in for weekend breakfast/lunches
* cooking classes through the Park District
* Intergenerational cooking classes for our church & community
* online cookbooks from collection of favorite recipes
* Thanksgiving (and other holiday) meals for hungry/homeless
* Caring Casseroles - prepare & freeze casseroles to take out to homebound, ill, recuperating, grieving folks
So, now what? Having such a vision/dream is amazingly powerful for me and quite energizing. Planting & sharing it (without it being my idea) with lay leaders so it can either grow into a reality or die a quiet death takes planning & patience & time.
Now it's time for prayer!
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