Shared Breakfast Needs Your Help!
After shutting down in March 2020 due the COVID-19 pandemic, Shared Breakfast started back up again last November, offering a hot, nutritious breakfast in take-out bags to those in need in our neighborhood of downtown Seattle. We are also providing breakfast on Sunday mornings to 4 different shelters operated by Compass Housing. All told, we are serving more than 150 people every Sunday morning!
We are now ready to begin the transition back to our traditional model of restaurant-style, sit-down food service in Fellowship Hall, albeit one step at a time. Our first step will be to allow up to 12 Shared Breakfast guests at a time to eat their breakfast from the take-out bags in Fellowship Hall. If that goes well, we expect to steadily increase the number of guests allowed in Fellowship Hall.
For the past 8 months of operation, we have had a hardy group of about 30 regular volunteers making Shared Breakfast happen every Sunday morning. But as we begin the transition back to the restaurant-style service, we have a need for additional volunteers. The two primary areas of need are: Assistant Cooks (helping the Lead Cook heat pre-cooked sausages and biscuits as well as to make oatmeal) and Food and Beverage Distribution Assistants (distribute take-out bags to the guests, guiding guests to the tables in Fellowship Hall and then cleaning the tables and chairs after the guests have left). Both of these roles require several hours of time on Sunday morning.
Our goal is to have sufficient numbers of volunteers so that no one has to work more than one Sunday a month. But that is dependent on our success in recruiting sufficient numbers of volunteers.
If you would like to be part of this long-standing, important outreach effort, please send an email to SharedBreakfast@firstchurchseattle.org with your name, email and phone number as well as which role at Shared Breakfast you are interested in.
Thanks for your support!
Sue Porter and Jim Schone
Co-chairs, Urban Outreach Committee