Free Community Breakfast
On the Second and Fifth Saturday of each month, members of Union and members of our community join together for a free community breakfast. The breakfast is served between 8 - 9:30 a.m. Everyone is welcome.
Union's Free Clothing Room is typically open during the breakfast and the WELL Food Pantry is typically open from 8:30 - 10:30 a.m.
A breakfast is available at a local church every Saturday. Click here for the full schedule.
If you are interested in helping to serve the breakfast, please contact us at unionlutheran@outlook.com or call at 717-843-7897.
Union's Free Clothing Room is typically open during the breakfast and the WELL Food Pantry is typically open from 8:30 - 10:30 a.m.
A breakfast is available at a local church every Saturday. Click here for the full schedule.
If you are interested in helping to serve the breakfast, please contact us at unionlutheran@outlook.com or call at 717-843-7897.
Community Breakfast Video
We are excited to share this video highlighting our free community breakfast ministry that we host on the 2nd and 5th Saturday of every month. The video also shows how this ministry has inspired a free community breakfast at St. Mark's in Harrisburg.
We thank our partners in ministry at the Lower Susquehanna Synod ELCA office for producing this video and for partnering with us for their "Rise Up" ministry
We thank our partners in ministry at the Lower Susquehanna Synod ELCA office for producing this video and for partnering with us for their "Rise Up" ministry
A Poem written by one of our Community Breakfast Guests:
Community Meals
Our hosts left their homes long before we did to prepare the room and cook the food
They gathered in that place bringing in the supplies and slaved over the hot stove
Then we came stumbling in with our tired drawn faces
Many of us shared the same sad stories
We had little if any money and our belies were grumbling
We came from various walks of life - a single parent trying to make ends meet, a person on disability with limited funds for the month, the working poor who needed a hand up, the hobo who would work if he had the chance, and the wino's who spent all their money feeding addiction
Standing in the Bread line we are all equal
Some places the portions are meager but for what we are given we are thankful
Some servers say it is in our eyes if not our words
It shows in the body language of the homeless who came in slumping now standing erect
The food has that effect
Some say sharing a meal with those who know how you feel, the shame, the despair, or the relief just to make the day is the true communion we share at these meals.
To those who serve we are grateful
As I take in that which will sustain me
I say a little prayer for thee.
R. Shindle 6-13-2015
Community Meals
Our hosts left their homes long before we did to prepare the room and cook the food
They gathered in that place bringing in the supplies and slaved over the hot stove
Then we came stumbling in with our tired drawn faces
Many of us shared the same sad stories
We had little if any money and our belies were grumbling
We came from various walks of life - a single parent trying to make ends meet, a person on disability with limited funds for the month, the working poor who needed a hand up, the hobo who would work if he had the chance, and the wino's who spent all their money feeding addiction
Standing in the Bread line we are all equal
Some places the portions are meager but for what we are given we are thankful
Some servers say it is in our eyes if not our words
It shows in the body language of the homeless who came in slumping now standing erect
The food has that effect
Some say sharing a meal with those who know how you feel, the shame, the despair, or the relief just to make the day is the true communion we share at these meals.
To those who serve we are grateful
As I take in that which will sustain me
I say a little prayer for thee.
R. Shindle 6-13-2015
