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. Our Friendsgiving Dinner is at 5:00. 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 questions asked. No registration, residency, income, or ID requirements. Special thanks this week to Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, Pauline Conley, Alison + Rich Enright, Nicole Thoen, Dave Johnson, Maureen Breault, Rebecca Myers, TINY'S Restaurant + Sharon Mauro, Patricia Madigan,...

  Good morning! So much wonderful news to share with you this week and so many wonderful people to thank...I want to get right to it! Our friends from Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church in Ayer provided our potluck dinner on Friday, and we all sat down and enjoyed a wonderful meal together! Special thanks to Angela and Andy G for their organizational skills. We received our final donations from the Boston Area Gleaners and the Community Harvest Project, who have kept us in fruit and vegetables all season. Special thanks to Alison, Rich, Jess, and Mike for week in and week out help. The Ayer Community School food drive was delivered. Special thanks to Martha, Christine, and all the kids and parents. We received a boatload of coffee cakes from Bake'N Joy, which always puts a smile on everyone's face. Thank you to Justin M, who faithfully drops them off. The Cookie bakers continue to be a big hit. We've had quite a few new guests at the pantry, and they are both surpris...

  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 a potluck ham dinner provided by Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 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 p...

  Good morning! We are so thankful for each and every one of you, and we don't want to forget to say that at this busy time of the year. So THANK YOU! Today I want to share some thoughts that I've been mulling over about where we were and where we are now, and about how quite a few things have changed at Stone Soup Kitchen over the last 6 years. Many of you know that the dinner was going on for many years before that, thanks to Pastor Steve Wells at Apple Valley Baptist Church. A long long time ago, he began sharing a pizza lunch with some friends who needed a meal, and that evolved into God's Kitchen at AVBC where hot potluck meals were made available 3 to 4 evenings each week and also on Sundays after church. Legal things happened, that we won't dwell on here, and the entire program was forced to regroup. For a few weeks, I served dinner out of the back of my Jeep, and AVBC decided to pass out gift cards for a while until they could decide what to do. Livin...

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  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 a variety of entrees and 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...

  Good morning! Continuing with the theme of thankfulness today, I want to thank all of you who have served our country in the armed services or who have family members serving, whether you are currently active, in the reserves, or retired. As the cartoon that I've attached indicates, at Stone Soup Kitchen, we tend to focus on helping the one person at a time, but you have been in the unique position to help many many people, and we are grateful for your sacrifices and your service. Thank you. We have a number of other things to be thankful for this week. First, we are working on our plans for Thanksgiving, and once more, the Ayer Police Union has bought gift cards for us to give away to each of our families so that they can buy the turkey or other centerpiece of their choice for their Thanksgiving meal. Please thank any of them that you run across for this incredibly generous thing they do each year! And our friends Lin and Vinny Miller are at it again, putting together...

  WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!! 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 a chicken dinner 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 priva...

  Good morning, and happy stoopid-clock-changing-this-is-so-dumb week! Ok, I've gotten it out of my system (mostly), and we can pick up this morning where we left off last week, with our trip at the end of October to see the updates and expansion of the Boston Area Gleaners at Stonefield Farm in Acton. The Gleaners is such a success story in this area, not only managing to ensure that a gorgeous family farm in Acton will be preserved forever, but also rescuing a gazillion tons of produce across the region that would otherwise go into a landfill. All summer and fall, we are able to share amazing bags of produce with our pantry guests, thanks to the efforts of the Gleaners and our friend Jess who works there, and also thanks to our friends Alison and Rich who go there each week to pick up our produce for us. But wait, there's more! Alison and Rich are two of those tireless people who serve this community every single week by doing this pick up, but they also make sure ...

  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 spaghetti alfredo casserole, 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 i...