Stone Soup Kitchen Ministries

  Stone Soup Kitchen opens at 4 pm on Friday evenings 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 ribs, 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 message on our facebook page. ANYone is welcome...no q

Too bad there's nothing in this for Ayer or other smaller towns around us, but it's a start just to recognize that affordable housing is not keeping pace and to actually build more rather than just talk about it. $62 million for new affordable housing Image: Graywalls

Stone Soup Kitchen focuses on helping our guests form more relationships across the typical divides that keep people from socializing, through our potluck, food pantry, and community-building activities. We have lots of meaningful community events planned for this coming year: we’ll be continuing with literacy tutoring, our substance use disorder support group, wellness workshops, cooking classes, household budgeting workshops, more Craft Gatherings, and of course our weekly Friday night dinner and Saturday morning food pantry.  We’re also working on more visits from interesting local people.  What about YOU?  You're interesting!!  Will you think about coming and joining us for dinner, where you can share information on something that you enjoy?  Or we could set up a workshop or series of classes for you to share your passion.  Our goal is community connections for everyone.   Please feel free to hit us up about any of these activities that interest you, or to suggest additional on

  Join Melanie P and Debbie E for a fun-filled morning of crafts, conversation, coffee, and cookies!  Everyone is welcome...this is a family-friendly event.  No registration or fees.  Bring your own project to work on in good company, or use our large selection of tools and materials 💕

  It was great to get together, learn some easy techniques, and EAT 😁 Thank you to all who participated! Thank you to Greater Lowell Community Foundation , the First Church Unitarian in Littleton, and Sheila Carman, in honor of her friend Lilo Vinther: together they sponsored our first cooking class of the year!  More to follow, we hope.  Get on our mailing list to make sure you don't miss out on the next class!  stonesoupkitchenministries @ gmail dot com (remove the spaces)

  Two of our hard-working friends at Ayer Shop n' Save!  Thank you to Mitch and Jacob (left to right) and Mike Velardi (not pictured) for all of the awesome produce you set aside for us! Ayer Shop n' Save

Stone Soup Kitchen opens at 4 pm on Friday evenings 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 TACOS!!!, 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 message on our facebook page. ANYone is welcome...no

  Question: How could spring cleaning be fun? Answer: When you are blessed to have a visit from the National Grid Sandy Pond Team to help you with it!   Thank you to all of the team for the food drive you put together, and to Rod, Dan, Mich, Olivia, Dave, and Jim (left to right) for your elbow grease.  Our place looks GREAT!   https://www.facebook.com/nationalgrid

  Online donations can be made at our bank link:  https://iccreditunion.goodcoins.io/causes/4125555   Checks can be sent to Stone Soup Kitchen at 41 Littleton Rd, Ayer MA 01432.   For a list of our current needs, please email stonesoupkitchenministries @ gmail. com (remove the spaces). We are able to take food donations on Wednesdays from 10 to noon, Fridays from 4 to 5:30, and Saturdays from 9 to noon. Wednesdays are the best days for deliveries. If those times don't work for you, the bin at Ayer Shop n' Save is always available, but please leave us a note in your bag with your name so that we can thank you properly. It's important to us! Gift cards can also be purchased at Ayer Shop n' Save, and even left at the service desk if you'd like (please sign them so we can thank you!).   We are a 501(c)3 charitable organization, and all donations are tax deductible.

The story of "stone soup" exists all over the world. In my favorite variation, a hungry traveler appears in a village with nothing but an empty cooking pot, a spoon, and his appetite. When the suspicious villagers will not show him any hospitality, he sets up his cooking pot in the village square and begins to boil water with a simple stone in it. As the curious townsfolk pass by and ask him what he is doing, he stirs the pot and tells them that he is making stone soup. Further, he explains that at the end of the day when the soup is ready, everyone will be welcome to come and share it with him. Eventually, one person ventures that the soup might taste better with a few onions. Soon the villagers are each bringing a couple of carrots, a potato, a little salt, whatever they have on hand to add to the stone soup. At the end of the day, the whole town shares a delicious pot of soup (minus the stone, of course), and they have also learned a valuable lesson about the joys of shari