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Hamburgers & Hot Dogs! Bring a side dish or dessert if you can. Bring a lawn chair or just sit on the picnic benches in the shelter. Definitely bring your friends & the entire family! Lunch will be about 12:30 PM, but you can come over for coffee anytime after the 8 AM service. Then, stay all day. We’ve reserved the shelter until sunset. Maps will be at the church. Carpools will be available. The R edeemerite X June, 2012 X Page 14
Twice a month, Redeemer volunteers take their talents to the Kansas City Community Kitchen, a facility which serves as many as six hundred people a day. Some of these people are homeless, some experience a handicap, either physical or mental, and all are legitimately in need of help. A growing clientèle is that of the “working poor,” people who have jobs but can’t make enough money to feed themselves and their families. Redeemer volunteers work with the kitchen’s chef/organizer/meal planner/chief cook & bottle washer Erika Rucker to help prepare meals which are highly nutritional and utterly delicious. One night the volunteers made hundreds of pounds of meat loaf using donated ground turkey and fresh peppers, along with the
more conventional fixin’s. The huge stainless steel trays were then covered with plastic and placed in a walk-in refrigerator where the fresh ingredients slowly allowed flavors to mingle until the trays were popped in huge ovens the next morning. Volunteers almost made a special trip the next day just to savor their gastronomic creation. That is the essence of what the KCCC does: serve meals which cost little but provide the highest standard of nutrition possible. Erika, a culinary school graduate, is frequently challenged by how to combine donated foodstuffs -- items which may not at first glance go well together. However, she always seems to come up with a successful mixture. One may say it is Divine inspiration. Surely, at a facility such as this,
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