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July Update Friends, Saturday, July 2 marked 119 continuous weekly bagged breakfasts that Celebrate Outreach and our supporters have served since our first breakfast on March 21, 2020 at the beginning of the COVID pandemic. Since then, the breakfast has grown: • On...

Friends, August was a busy month.  We served an average of 128 bagged breakfasts and lunches each Saturday morning.  The highest number was 154, which we served on the 27th. August is also when students return to school, so this month we look back and thank some of...

All sorts of good things are happening at the Celebrate Outreach weekend meals. Ongoing improvements in our new kitchen: New pot sinks with a sprayer! No more black plastic wash tubs in the middle of the serving room! No more spilling the dirty dish water while trying...

We served 106 breakfasts and 104 dinners last weekend. Woohoo!!!  Please check our schedule, then your calendar…any assistance is SO appreciated.          COME JOIN US!!  Call a friend!  Ask a group!  Forward and post!  Mark your calendar! Any time you volunteer is...

Friends, Last weekend we served 120 breakfasts and 90 dinners (and are still masked for the safety of all.) As we said in last week’s email, Mary Stewart, our current head cook (R), is leaving for Vermont in a couple of weeks to be with a sick friend.  GW Rolle (L),...

Friends,      In week 54 of serving COVID-safe meals, as we finish up the kitchen renovations, the need for meals increases, and the need for volunteers has also increased.      We need more volunteers.  We can use help at any point in the meal, but especially to wash...

Friends, THIS PAST WEEKEND: Happy Birthday Mary!! We celebrated chief cook Mary Stewart’s birthday. It was also Mary’s 61st weekend cooking for Celebrate Outreach and Missio Dei. That means she has been the main cook for 61 breakfasts and 61 dinners—122...

Our weekend meals depend on many types of volunteers.  At our breakfast this past weekend we welcomed both Showered and Empowered, a mobile shower service for those experiencing homelessness, and St. Teresa of Calcutta Catholic Community’s Parking Lot Gang, who gives away clothes and toiletries.  The Parking Lot Gang is with us at the breakfast on the second Saturday of the month.