Stone Soup Kitchen Ministries

  Stone Soup Kitchen opens at 4 pm on Friday evenings, located at Living Water Fellowship in Devenscrest, Ayer. It is open to ANYone who wants a good hot meal and some company...no need to bring anything but yourself unless you want to! From 4 to 5, we are open for those who want to get together and socialize, do puzzles, or play games in the dining room. The potluck dinner is available from 5 to 5:30 followed by dessert and our support group. The open support group meeting with Teri T runs from 5:30 to 6, if you'd like to stay for it after dinner. This week, the potluck will feature meat loaf, various sides, dessert, juice, and some extra snacks to take home for the weekend. Our food pantry is open every Saturday morning from 10 to noon, same location. If you need food, or KNOW someone who needs food...please come pick some up. Email any questions to stonesoupkitchenministries @ gmail . com (remove the spaces) or leave us a private comment here. ANYone is welcome...no que

 

  Good morning friends! After such a beautiful weekend, it's a bit startling (to those of us who have sworn off the news temporarily) that it's raining today, but my crispy-critter plants seem to be quite happy about it. First and foremost, all of us at Stone Soup Kitchen need to take a moment and say a special thank you to Bob B, the pastor of Living Water Fellowship. Bob is stepping down from the pastorate and won't be on our board or working with us anymore. Bob is responsible for SSK being located at Living Water Fellowship in the first place. He invited us to take up residence there in 2019 when I was passing out dinner from the back of my Jeep. A year later, he encouraged me to begin the process of establishing SSK as a separate 501(c)3. He has given us wise counsel at our board meetings, and has continued to be a personal friend, even when we disagree. I hope that you all can understand what an impact it had on the development of SSK to have a home that ga

Stone Soup Kitchen opens at 4 pm on Friday evenings, located at Living Water Fellowship in Devenscrest, Ayer. It is open to ANYone who wants a good hot meal and some company...no need to bring anything but yourself unless you want to! From 4 to 5, we are open for those who want to get together and socialize, do puzzles, or play games in the dining room. The potluck dinner is available from 5 to 5:30 followed by dessert and our support group. The open support group meeting with Teri T runs from 5:30 to 6, if you'd like to stay for it after dinner. This week, the potluck will feature cheeseburger + sausage bake, various sides, dessert, juice, and some extra snacks to take home for the weekend. Our food pantry is open every Saturday morning from 10 to noon, same location. If you need food, or KNOW someone who needs food...please come pick some up. Email any questions to stonesoupkitchenministries @ gmail . com (remove the spaces) or leave us a private comment here. ANYone is we

  And just like that, September is over. It makes me sad, but October is a beautiful month too in New England, and there is much to look forward to! At the dinner and the pantry, we had much to be thankful for. Not only did we have beautiful weather for getting together, but we also had some friends stop by with fun things to share. Our friend Lyna T came on Friday late afternoon to give haircuts to those who needed some sprucing up. She is such a bright light and a generous soul, and she always makes us feel good about ourselves. I really appreciate that after a long day of work, Lyna is willing to come and do just a few more cuts! For the food pantry on Saturday, our friend Laurie S came and dropped off kits for sprouting seeds (as in, sprouts for salads) for our guests. We didn't know if they would be popular or not, but we decided to give them a try. Well, they were very popular! To say that Laurie and I were delighted is a bit of an understatement! That just goe

  Stone Soup Kitchen opens at 4 pm on Friday evenings, located at Living Water Fellowship in Devenscrest, Ayer. It is open to ANYone who wants a good hot meal and some company...no need to bring anything but yourself unless you want to! From 4 to 5, we are open for those who want to get together and socialize, do puzzles, or play games in the dining room. The potluck dinner is available from 5 to 5:30 followed by dessert and our support group. The open support group meeting with Teri T runs from 5:30 to 6, if you'd like to stay for it after dinner. This week, the potluck will feature chicken tetrazzini, various sides, dessert, juice, and some extra snacks to take home for the weekend. Our food pantry is open every Saturday morning from 10 to noon, same location. If you need food, or KNOW someone who needs food...please come pick some up. Email any questions to stonesoupkitchenministries @ gmail . com (remove the spaces) or leave us a private comment here. ANYone is welcom

  I don't know about you, but for me, September is just whipping by at top speed. Generally, September and October are my favorite months in New England. I love the cooler crisp air and smell of wood fires. And football. I love the return of football. I always want fall to last just a little bit longer, especially knowing what's coming next: stick season, when all the leaves are down and the daylight hours are short. That's a really hard time for our homeless friends too, and for those who are living in sub-standard apartments and rooms. We are getting ready for that at the pantry, making sure that we have enough peel-and-eat foods for those who don't have kitchens and some cold weather sleeping bags and coats on hand. We had a wonderful visit from our friends at the Ayer office of National Grid a couple of weeks ago. We enjoy it so much when their crew comes to help us pack, sort, and stock. I didn't tell you about it then, because there was a