A Wonderful Christmas Dinner

Wow! We had a wonderful Christmas Dinner today at Northbay Christian Faith Center. We served about 110 homeless and had over 50 people help pull it all together.

We served 16 tri-tip roasts, 2 full size trays of green bean casserole, 4 full size trays of mashed potatoes and over 12 dozen rolls.

We were blessed by a group of Christmas Carolers who came and sang Christmas songs for about 30 minutes. There were about 20 people, including young children and teenager who blessed us all with some beautiful music.

Sonshine Loomis and a group of musicians played Christmas songs. Brian Bennett delivered a salvation message. He ended with offering prayer for people. I saw at least 5 people get up and received prayer. There were also many other people who were prayed for during the day.

We were able to hand out 50 tarps that were purchased this summer, thank you to everyone who helped purchase those. We also had clothes, jackets and blankets.

Thank you to everyone who helped. This ministry exists because of everyone whether you stand in the gap and pray for the outreach,donate or serve. Thank you for being the hands and feet of Jesus to people who have lost hope.

Ultimately, God was glorified today.

I just wanted to thank everyone for donating the needed items. We are totally filled, including the pies and rolls. Praise the Lord, he provides!
We are excited about todays dinner and the one on Christmas Eve.
We were able to whip out the prep work yesterday in no time at all. We had 8 people peeling 70 pounds of potatoes and they got it done in less than an hour. I stayed and finished up the mashing and was all done including the kitchen being cleaned by 1:20.
Thank again for the being the hands and feet of Jesus. We can't do this ministry without you and I don't have enough words to express how grateful I am to everyone.
Please pray for our events for the next few days. We are excited to see what God does.

2 Christmas Dinners!

Updated December 14th.

Almost there!

We will be doing 2 Christmas Dinners this Christmas.

The first dinner will be on December 20th at Northbay Christian Faith Center

The second will be December 24th at Samuel L. Jones Homeless Shelter.

We are looking at feeding 300 total. Our menu will be the same at both dinners. We will be doing tri-tip, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, dinner rolls and pie.

At the Northbay Christian Faith Center Brian Bennett will be giving the salvation message.

We are excited about Samuel L. Jones allowing us to prepare a meal for the residents at their shelter. We will not be able to give a gospel message at the shelter but we will be singing Christmas Songs, giving each resident a Christmas card, and the gospel can be shared one-on-one.

Sonshine Loomis will be in charge of the Christmas music at both events, if you are interested in singing or playing your instrument with her please email me and let me know, I will give her your email so she can contact you.

Hope Chapel is donating 100 Christmas cards but we are anticipating about 120 people. So we need at least another 20 Christmas cards.

We will also need people to help to serve and help prep at both events. We can gain access to Northbay Faith Center at 12:30 on the 20th. We will be doing the prep for the potatoes and green bean casserole on the 19th. We could use people to help on that day peeling potatoes. We have a small apartment, so if someone has a bigger kitchen that we could use on Saturday that would help us a lot. Or if you would like to make a tray of food at your house, we can give you the ingredients and recipes.

At Samuel L. Jones Shelter, we are hoping to be able to get into their kitchen by 10am. We will do all prep work there on the 24th. So we will need people to help prep on Christmas Eve day.

As you can see there are many opportunities to help with these 2 dinners. You can help at one or both.

Here is a list of our needs. I have also included sizes and prices. The prices come from Cash and Carry (no membership needed to shop). If you do not want to do the shopping you can donate cash to Hope for the Homeless through Hope Chapel or Giving Tree.

150 lbs of Tri-tip - - cost 2.13 lb, 20 lb bag is approximately $43 (each spot is for 20 lbs of tri-tip

1. Michele Ledson

2. Sam and Karen Knapp

3. Anonymous

4. Anonymous

5. Anonymous

6. Anonymous

7. Anonymous

8. Anonymous

4- 5lb tubs of sour cream- cost $5.32 per tub ( each spot for 1 - 5lb tub of sour cream)

1. Anonymous

2. monetary donations

3.monetary donations

4. monetary donations

3 - 5lb bags of cheddar cheese - cost $9,89 per bag (each spot for 1 5lb bag of cheese)

1. Anonymous

2.monetary donations

3.monetary donations

5 - 50 oz. cans of cream of mushroom soup - cost $4.07 per can (each spot is for 1 50 oz. can)

1. Anonymous

2. Terri Gomke

3.monetary donations

4.monetary donations

5.monetary donations

5 - 1lb 8oz bag of french fried onion - cost $8.52 per bag (each spot is for one bag)

1. Anonymous

2. Sam and Karen Knapp

3.monetary donations

4.monetary donations

5.monetary donations

3 - #10 canned mushroom - cost $5.90 per can (each spot is for one can)

1. Anonymous

2. Terri Gomke

3.monetary donations

10 - #10 canned green beans - cost $3.47 per can or case of 6 for $18.53 (each spot is for 2 #10 cans)

1. Anonymous

2.monetary donations

3.monetary donations

4.monetary donations

5.monetary donations

2 - 32 oz. package of green onions - cost $3.88 per package (each spot is for 2 packages)

1. Anonymous

4 packages (20 trays total needed)- package of 5 full size aluminium steam table trays - cost $7.18 per package of 5 (each spot is for 1 package of 4 trays)

1. Marc and Gina Carrillo

2.Marc and Gina Carrillo

3.Marc and Gina Carrillo

4.Marc and Gina Carrillo

5.Marc and Gina Carrillo

300 dinner rolls (each spot is for 6 dozen rolls)

1. Bianca Stebbins (3 dozen)

2. Karen Carrillo (3 dozen)

3. Grace Miranda (6 dozen)

4. Sara Crouthers (3 dozen)

5. Brandon and Rhonda McComas (12 dozen rolls)

30 pies - whatever type you would like to donate, if you donate pumpkin pie please supply the whip cream for it also ( each spot is for 2 pies)

1. Deb Bruflat (for dec. 24)

2. Sue Lupinki (pumpkin) and cool whip

3. Dylan and Tori Carlton

4. Brian and Margaret Davis

5. Brian and Margaret Davis

6. Brian and Margaret Davis

7. Bianca Stebbin (1)

8. Sam and Karen Knapp (1)

9. Karen Carrillo (1)

10. Brad Rickard (10 pies)

2 - 170 package of paper plates (each spot is for 1 package of 170 plates)

1. Anonymous

2. Anonymous

400 - cups for coffee and lemonade (each spot is for 200 cups)

1. Anonymous

2. Anonymous

2 - cans of coffee (each spot is for 1 can of coffee)

1. Anonymous

2. Anonymous

cream and sugar (each spot is for a large container of cream and sugar)

1.monetary donations

2.monetary donations

200 forks

1. Anonymous

200 knives

1. Anonymous

100 dinner napkins

1.monetary donations

Items we already have

2 containers of lemonade

600 pats of butter (donated by Michelle Ledson from Thanksgiving dinner)

150 lbs of potatoes - will get those from the food bank

100 forks

100 knives

200 napkins

Thank you in advance for all your help and support of this ministry. We are excited about what God is going to do this Christmas Season.

In Christ

Jim and Lisa Broyles

Praise the Lord

Thank you to everyone who helped with the Thanksgiving Dinner. We had over 100 homeless at the dinner and served 12 turkeys. We were also able to hand out tarps, sleeping bags and pads. Rudy Gonzalez gave an awesome message. Donny (who is homeless) also gave a message, Praise the Lord!

Thanksgiving Feast

ALL FILLED...PRAISE THE LORD

Updated Tuesday Nov. 17

We have some exciting news. Northbay Faith Center is allowing us to do meals at their church for the holidays again. They are located at 920 Link Lane (off of West College). We will be having our Thanksgiving Dinner for the homeless on Nov. 29th. We will be serving at 3pm with hopes of gaining access to the church at 12:30.

We would like to have the turkeys delivered to our house on the Tuesday before if they are frozen or Saturday if they are defrosted. Our plans are to deep fat fry them on Sunday before we go to the church.

you can drop items off at our house (225 Burt St. #25) or being them to church. On the weekend of the feast we will only be at church on Saturday night.

Also let us know if you will be helping serve on Sunday

Turkeys

1. Michelle Ledson

2.Elsa Finley

3.Sylvia Tremayne

4.Sylvia Tremayne

5.Mark and Sharon Shanklin

6. Bear and Terry Gomke

7.Jerry Fountain

8.Gina Pusatero

8.Gandy Family

9. Sandie McCarthy

10.Katherine Iverson

11.Chuck Bartley

12. Bragg Family

13. Bragg Family

14. Bragg Family

15. Bragg Family

Deep Fat Turkey Fryers (for us to borrow on Sunday morning)

1. Marc Carrillo

2.Shelly Duclos

Peanut oil (3 gallons) you can get the peanut/canola oil mixture, this is about $25 the pure peanut oil is about $45

1.Elsa Finley

2.Hoffman Family

3.Jeanie Aganowski

Stove-top stuffing (3 boxes each)

1. Hope for the homeless

2.Hope for the homeless

3. Connie Weichel

4.Nancy Obrien

5.Sara Crouthers

6.Mary Duffy

7.Chris and Karen Carrillo

Instant mashed potatoes

1.Connie Weichel

2.ConnieWeichel

3.Connie Weichel

4.Chris and Karen Carrillo

5.Chris and Karen Carrillo

Gravy - instant Costco size makes 1 1/3 gallon

1.Jeanie Aganowski

2.Jeanie Aganowski

Individual pats of putter (1 box)

1. Michelle Ledson

Milk (for potatoes) 2 gallons

1. Maryann Moore

2.Bonnie

Butter/maragine (1lb for potatoes and stuffing)

1.Connie Weichel

2.Bonnie

3.Bonnie

4. Bianca Stebbins

Cranberry Sauce (3 cans)

19 cans already received...this should cover it

Corn - canned (3 small cans, 1 institutional can will count for 3 spots)

1.Connie Weichel

2.Nancy Obrien

3.Mary Duffy

4.Chris and Karen Carrillo

5.Katherine Iverson

6.Sue Lipinski

7.Bianca Stebbins

8.Jeanie Aganowski

9.Jeanie Aganowski

10.Jeanie Aganowski

Dinner rolls (3 dozen)

1. Terri Gomke

2.Alice Wells

3.Sue Lipinski

4.Bianca Stebbins

5.Bianca Stebbins

Pumpkin Pies

1.Carrie Tate

2.Carrie Tate

3.RC and Lauri Carrillo

4.Sunnie Dammarell

5.Sunnie Dammarell

6.Rene' G. Silvestre

7.Rene' G. Silvestre

8.Rene' G. Silvestre

9.Rosie Martinez

10.Rene' G. Silvestre

11. Brian and Margaret Davis

Cool whip or whipped cream

1.Sue Lipinski

2.Sue Lipinski

3.Rene' G. Silvestre

4.Rene' G. Silvestre

5.Jeanie Aganowski

Paper plates, napkins, plastic forks and knives (enough for 20 for each sign up)

1.Mary Duffy

2. anonymous

3.anonymous

4.anonymous

5.anonymous

Dessert Plates (60)

1.Carrie Tate

2.Carrie Tate

Bottled Water (1 case each)

1.Gloria Huerta

2.Gloria Huerta

3.Gloria Huerta

4.Gloria Huerta

5. Mary Duffy

6.anonymous

7.anonymous

Coffee (1 can)

1. Brian and Margaret Davis

Sugar and creamer

1.Jeanie Aganowski

Coffee Cups (60 each)

1.Gonzalez Family

2.Gonzalez Family

Please let us know if you will helping serve. We can use poeple as early as 12:30 at the church. We will start serving at 3pm

Sonshine Loomis will be playing worship music and Rudy Gonazlez will be giving the salvation message.

Thank you all for your support. We can't do this without you. Even if you can't serve with us on Sunday please help with a food donation. We love you all and pray that you will have a blessed Thanksgiving

Sunday's outreach

Dear Friends and Family

We had 5 teams plus ourselves hand out 67 meals today. We had 67 people not only receive food but God's love. We don't just hand a meal out, we talk with them, listen to them and pray with them. We served bean, meat and cheese burritos with spanish rice. The teams that went out were Brian, Marc and Gina, The Gandy Family, Terry and Bear Gomke, The Bragg Family, and Frank Blondina. Each team took 10 meals (some teams took 1 additional meal that was vegetarian).

Thank you Lord for a wonderful day and for the people we were able to touch.

Keep an eye for another email in the week or so. We are planning our Thanksgiving Dinner. It will be on Sunday, Nov 29th at 3pm. Northbay Christian Faith Center is letting us use their building again this year. We will be serving a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner with all the trimmings.

Thank you to everyone who donated food items and helped hand out meals. This ministry exists because of you being the hand and feet of Jesus.

All praise, honor and Glory to God!

Outreach Nov. 1st

Updated Wednesday Oct. 28th

have been really busy and I have not gotten an email out. I was planning on doing an outreach for this Sunday Oct. 25 but I am going to move it to Sunday Nov. 1st.

We are going to do Burritos. We have the tortillas already from the food bank.

Refried Beans (4 cans regular size or 1 large (from costco) will take 2 spots)

1. Carrie Tate

2. Carrie Tate

3.Carrie Tate

4.Carrie Tate

Shredded Cheese

1.Maryann Moore

2.Michelle Ledson

Hamburger (1 lb)

1.Michelle Ledson

2.Elsa Finley

3.Elsa Finley

4.Elsa Finley

5.Elsa Finley

Lettuce (1 head), Tomato (4) you can chop them up or bring them to me to do it

1. Gandy Family

2.

White Rice (1lb bag)

1.Sara Crouthers

2.Sara Crouthers

3.Sara Crouthers

Salsa (1 jar small or large from costco will count for all 4 spots)

1.Maryann Moore

2.Maryann Moore

3.Maryann Moore

4.Maryann Moore

Styrofoam to-go containers (can be found at Cash and Carry or Costco, they are about $12 for 100)

1.

People to deliver food to the homeless

1.Gandy Family

2.

3.

4.

5.

If more than 5 people sign up to hand out food I will send out additional emails with more spots.

We already have napkins and utensils.

Thank you to everyone who supports this ministry and for being the hands and feet of Jesus.

In Christ

Jim and Lisa Broyles