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 baked ziti and sausage with 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...n

Good morning everyone. Rainy days and Mondays, right? At least this past weekend we were actually able to finish up the pantry before the rain really got going :-) I've got a lot to tell you about this week, and I'm also going to send our updated list in a separate mailing as soon as this one goes out. But before I get into that list, I need to let you know what events are coming up. Please remember that these events are open to everyone. There are no fees so that anyone is able to participate, and we have plenty of space thanks to the generosity of Living Water Fellowship! We have Dr Lydia McClure coming to do a workshop on basic nutrition. Are you confused by all the competing claims of trendy diets, and are you skeptical about adding more supplements to your ever-increasing list of must-haves for health? Dr Lydia will cut through all the nonsense that is only designed to drain our wallets, and will show us how simple it can be to get everything that our body needs each day..

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 basil chicken and rice with 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

  We are looking forward to a visit with our favorite local doctor, Dr Lydia McClure!! She is going to walk us through how easy it can be to hit all the nutrition high points...quickly, easily, and on budget! Yes, refreshments will be served (but they will probably be healthy!) 😁 Stone Soup Kitchen is located at 41 Littleton Road, Ayer MA 01432 Image: Canva

  I just got off the phone with Brittany Beaudry, our wonderful social worker who is coordinating the care of everyone, and she had some really great news for all of us. First of all, only a few people who have been living at the Inn longer term have left, for various reasons. The rest have been able to stay...there truly was room at the Inn! So don't believe for one more moment that anyone's needs are being ignored over there. Brittany is working with all of them, and is making appointments with all of the current resident families that need any help. That's what she was in the process of doing when she made the discovery of what the State was doing. She will also make sure that they know about food help that we can provide for them if they want it. As for the immigrants, they will be moving in gradually. They will not need food from us, but they will need household items, clothing, etc, especially baby things. Brittany will have a list, hopefully by the end of

Good morning!  This is Max, our most satisfied pantry guest, aka "Tina's dog"! Max inspired Tina to keep dog biscuits on hand in the pantry, and we've been told that he starts bouncing with excitement and drooling before his actual owner even turns into the parking lot (hence the towel!). The most important thing to know about Max, though, is that his current family rescued him after he lost his family in Puerto Rico during one of the hurricanes. We have the best pantry guests...many of them are also involved in serving others, paying it forward, and attempting to make the world a better place in any way they can. We are so honored every week to be able to help those who reach out to us, with the help of wonderful people like all of you! I want to give you all the most up to date information that we have at Stone Soup Kitchen about the influx of immigrants in Ayer. Probably not all of you know about this, and honestly, there is a LOT of misinformation floating

  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 meat loaf with 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 ques

  We have been chosen by one of our community's wonderful businesses to receive a grant towards food for our pantry and our hot meal! The Bemis Community Investment Fund of the Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts contacted us last week to let us know 💕 We are very grateful to Bemis Associates and to their Community Fund Committee. Bemis's commitment to community involvement runs deep, which you can see at the link above.

Do we care about hungry Vets, the homeless, and all American citizens? Yes. Do we care about hungry immigrants and migrants, whatever their legal status? Yes. Do we believe that there is actually enough to go around if we would all work together instead of fighting about who is more worthy of help and who ought to be doing the helping?   Also yes. 

  Good morning. I don't know about all of you, but I find myself feeling sad on this anniversary, worrying that our world seems to have learned so little. It upsets me to hear 9-11 politicized. But, as is so often the case, I can't do anything about it, so I just pledge myself again to do what I can to increase the total amount of love in the world. All of you who have donated time, food, money, and talents to us are doing that as well, and I thank you for it. I have even more reason to be grateful today as I sit here at my own computer in my own home typing this. It took us all day yesterday to fly from Cleveland OH to Boston. All because someone didn't do their job. By the time their mistake had been fixed, bad weather had grounded the planes in Boston. It turns out we would have gotten home sooner if we had driven :-) But our niece's wedding was wonderful, and it was equally wonderful to know that everything at home was in good hands. Extra thanks this

  If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate.  ~ Sandy Dahl, wife of Flight 93 pilot Jason Dahl  Here at Stone Soup Kitchen, we love you all 💕

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 pizza casserole cooked with love by our own Melanie P, with 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 c

  What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. ~Jane Goodall I recently listened in on a live-streamed discussion with four Central Mass people who are working in the area of addiction, from the perspectives of law and justice, health and medical, treatment and reintegration, homelessness and mental health. During the program, one person repeatedly yelled in the comments that no one on the panel really cared, because the answer was to close the border to the flow of illicit drugs. While I have a certain amount of sympathy for this person, who may have lost someone close to them because of drugs, I also had to note that only one out of the four people in the discussion had any position of power whatsoever that could have influenced the border.  The rest were people like us at Stone Soup Kitchen, who do what they can within their own sphere of influence.  I found it annoying that they were not hearing anything said by anyone on the

  Greetings, and I hope you are all doing well on this beautiful Labor Day! I have so many good things to tell you, I'm almost afraid that I'll forget something. So I want to dive right in this morning Our food drive, run by the Ayer Police Department, was a fantastic success this year. Over the course of August, we received 76 stuffed-full large paper grocery bags-worth of usable food. The amount of expired and otherwise unusable food was almost nothing this year...maybe 1 or 2 bags-worth. We are extremely grateful to Chief Brian Gill for supporting this drive each year, and to our friend Sgt. John MacD for arranging it and Dispatcher Mark L for publicizing it and taking care of the bins. John reported that other folks who were instrumental in the drive were Officers George F and David L, and Det. Brent D. We have an amazing Department, full of caring people who really love serving our community. And of course, we also have an amazing community who donate whenever p

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 honey-mustard chicken with 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