The kitchen at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Evanston buzzes with activity on Sundays. People chop vegetables for a salad while othersprepare a hearty hot pasta dish and children fill a large tray with cookies fordessert without eating a single one. As impressive as the young helper’s selfcontrol in the presence of a huge tray of cookies may be, the most beautiful thing is how everybody works together to serve a plentiful meal to dozens of hungry guests who might not otherwise eat that day.

My family, including my grade school daughters, really enjoys working on Soup Kitchen days. While we have been blessed with plenty, many others have not and we welcome the opportunity to help provide a meal for them. Perhaps the most rewarding aspect of serving is getting the opportunity
to interact with the guests that come to eat – to put a face and a name on the pervasive problem of hunger and homelessness in our society. I often think about how much food ends up leaving the soup kitchen with the guests and making its way to their hungry children, friends, or family members that are not able to get to the church on Sunday afternoons.

The Soup Kitchen is an interfaith effort to positively affect hunger and homelessness in our community. Christian, Jewish, Bahai, and secular organizations all take turns running the Soup Kitchen (you can check out the schedule HERE). Trinity next serves on Sunday, May 1^st. Won’t you please consider
bringing your family to help? I promise that it will be a positive experience that you won’t soon forget!

For more information please contact Trinity coordinator Tom
Carson at tcarson(at)luc.edu or the church office at
office(at)trinityevanston.org.

Chris House

Parishioner

Trinity Lutheran Church