Stone Soup Kitchen Ministries

  Stone Soup Kitchen opens at 4 pm this coming Friday evenings, located at Shepherd of the Valley Church on Washington Street in Ayer. Please park in the Newton Street lot and walk up to the first blue door on Washington Street. Dinner 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 in the dining room. The potluck dinner is available from 5 to 5:30 followed by dessert and our open support group, which runs from 5:30 to 6, if you'd like to stay for it after dinner. This week, the potluck will feature a cookout along with various sides, dessert, juice, coffee, and some extra snacks to take home for the weekend. Our food pantry is open every Saturday morning from 10 to noon, same location. Come to the parking lot on Cambridge Street and follow the arrows. If you need food, or KNOW someone who needs food...please come pick some ...

  More info below the post Good morning! How do you know it's Monday? The rain has moved out. How do you know it's Saturday? You know the answer! Was this our 13th or 14th Saturday morning in a row with rain? Nonetheless, it was a beautiful and event-filled weekend. I would be very interested to hear how all of you spent it, if you care to share. I was at the pantry, along with Melanie, Tina, and a couple of our teen volunteers, and we had 13 newcomers. One family came from almost an hour away as an emergency measure because they didn't know where else to go, but I sent them some links to pantries closer by their home. Not that they aren't welcome to come see us anytime they want, but I think the others will be more convenient for them. I want to talk about cookies :-) Our cookie bakers are just the best! Every two weeks or so, they heat up the oven, even in the summer, and bring forth delightful little bite sized discs of flour, sugar, egg, and amazing...

  Stone Soup Kitchen opens at 4 pm on Friday evenings, located at Shepherd of the Valley Church on Washington Street in Ayer. Please park in the Newton Street lot and walk up to the first blue door on Washington Street. Dinner 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 in the dining room. The potluck dinner is available from 5 to 5:30 followed by dessert and our open support group, which runs from 5:30 to 6, if you'd like to stay for it after dinner. This week, the potluck will feature Swedish meatballs along with various sides, dessert, juice, coffee, and some extra snacks to take home for the weekend. Our food pantry is open every Saturday morning from 10 to noon, same location. Come to the parking lot on Cambridge Street and follow the arrows. If you need food, or KNOW someone who needs food...please come pick some u...

  June is such a huge month for endings and new beginnings. Along with all the graduations that are happening, there are also changes that occur at the pantry. One such change is that our friend Elliot M is leaving us for the summer. Elliot began volunteering with us in January, prior to our move from Devenscrest to downtown. He helped to clean out the rooms we would soon call home and to assemble the new racks. And then he basically did anything else that we asked of him. Except for one thing: Elliot rarely showed up on Wednesdays to help pack, except during school vacation week. That's because he is in high school and is going off to be a camp counselor this summer! We wish him the best summer EV-AH and hope that he returns in the fall with lots of great stories to tell Elliot, and other young people like him, help remind me that optimism and meliorism are vitally important qualities today. “Meliorism”...isn't that a great word? It means the belief that we can ...

Stone Soup Kitchen opens at 4 pm on Friday evenings, located at Shepherd of the Valley Church on Washington Street in Ayer. Please park in the Newton Street lot and walk up to the first blue door on Washington Street. Dinner 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 in the dining room. The potluck dinner is available from 5 to 5:30 followed by dessert and our open support group, which runs from 5:30 to 6, if you'd like to stay for it after dinner. This week, the potluck will feature La Sita chicken along with various sides, dessert, juice, coffee, and some extra snacks to take home for the weekend. Our food pantry is open every Saturday morning from 10 to noon, same location. Come to the parking lot on Cambridge Street and follow the arrows. If you need food, or KNOW someone who needs food...please come pick some up. Email...

  What a lovely way to start a new month with all the sunshine and flowers today! As much as I appreciate the greenery all around us, I appreciate all of you even more. We are heading for some tough months ahead with all of the social safety net funding cuts, job losses, and market instability, but I believe that you are going to help us to keep up with it as best we all can...together. I would like to encourage each of you to continue to contact our Senators on a regular basis to remind them to fight against the cuts to SNAP and the USDA, the threats against nonprofits that are built into the tax bill they are now considering. We had a great gathering on Friday for dinner, and we were treated to a visit from our local nurses from the Nashoba Associated Boards of Health. It's the first time since we moved that we've had them come for wellness checks, and there were people who were eager to get together and ask questions. We said goodbye to our beloved Nurse Maureen S, a...