February 2021 Meals

 

2/6/21- St. Thomas Parish- Breakfast 10 AM to 10:30 AM

2/14/21- Church of the Transfiguration (DECOFT)/Elijah’s Table (EHS)- Lunch 2:00 PM to 2:30 PM

2/20/21- St. Thomas Parish- Breakfast 10 AM to 10:30 AM

2/20/21- St. Luke’s Church- Lunch 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM drive around to back door

2/26/21- First Parish Church- 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM drive up to side door

2/28/21- Church of the Transfiguration (DECOFT) /Elijah’s Table (EHS)-Breakfast 9 AM to 9:30 AM

2/28/21- St. Jude’s Parish- Lunch- 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM

 Sonshine Soup Kitchen – WILL BE SERVING DRIVE BY TO GO MEALS ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, AND THURSDAYS 4:30 PM -5:00 PM

 January Meals:

1/2/21- St. Thomas Parish- Breakfast 10 AM to 10:30 AM

1/10/21- Church of the Transfiguration (DECOFT)/Elijah’s Table (EHS)-*Time Change* Lunch 2:00 PM to 2:30 PM

1/16/21- St. Thomas Parish- Breakfast 10 AM to 10:30 AM

1/16/21- St. Luke’s Church- Lunch 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM drive around to back door

1/29/21- First Parish Church- 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM drive up to side door

1/31/21- St. Jude’s Parish- Lunch- 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM

Sonshine Soup Kitchen –  WILL BE SERVING DRIVE-BY TO-GO MEALS ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, AND THURSDAYS 4:30 PM -5:00 PM.  IF YOU NEED FOOD, CALL 437-2833 EXTENSION 1 AND LEAVE A MESSAGE. THE KITCHEN WILL GET BACK TO YOU TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT FOR YOU TO PICK UP OUTSIDE OF OUR BUILDING.

December Meals

 December meals:

12/13/20- Church of the Transfiguration (DECOFT)/Elijah’s Table (EHS)-**TIME CHANGE**2:00 PM to 2:30 PM

12/18/20- First Parish Church- 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM drive up to side door

12/19/20- St Luke’s Church- Lunch 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM

12/27/20- Church of the Transfiguration (DECOFT) /Elijah’s Table (EHS)-Breakfast 9:00 AM to 9:30 AM

12/27/20- St. Jude’s Parish- Lunch- 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM

 Sonshine Soup Kitchen – WILL BE SERVING DRIVE BY TO GO MEALS ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, AND THURSDAYS 4:30 PM -5:00 PM.  IF YOU NEED FOOD, CALL 437-2833 EXTENSION 1 AND LEAVE A MESSAGE. The Sonshone Soup Kitchen WILL GET BACK TO YOU TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT FOR YOU TO PICK UP OUTSIDE OF OUR BUILDING.

 September To-Go Meals:

09/13/20- Church of the Transfiguration (DECOFT)/Elijah’s Table (EHS)- 5 PM to 5:30 PM

09/19/20-St Luke’s Church- 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

09/25/20-First Parish Church- 5:00 PM-6:00 PM drive up to side door

09/27/20- St. Jude’sParish- Lunch- 1:30 PM-2:30 PM

 Sonshine Soup Kitchen – will be serving drive-by to-go meals on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 4:30-5:30 pm. If you need food, call 437-2833, extension 1, and leave a message. Sonshine Soup Kitchen will get back to you to make an appointment for you to pick up food outside of its building.

July and August Meals

Due to COVID19 and social distancing restrictions,

The Derry Community Meals will provide

FREE BAG MEALS TO GO!

07/12/20- Church of the Transfiguration (DECOFT)- 5 PM to 5:30 PM
07/18/20- St Luke’s Church- 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM.  Guests can drive around to the back of the church where we will have a table set out.

07/19/20 – Elijah’s Table (EHS)- 4:45 PM to 5:30 PM
07/26/20- Church of the Transfiguration (DECOFT)- Continental Breakfast- 9:00 AM to 9:30
AM
07/26/20- St. Jude’s Parish- Lunch- 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
07/31/20- First Parish Church- 5:00 PM-6:00 PM drive up to side door
08/09/20- Church of the Transfiguration (DECOFT)- 5 PM to 5:30 PM
08/15/20- St Luke’s Church- 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
08/16/20 – Elijah’s Table (EHS)- 4:45 PM to 5:30 PM
08/22/20- Church of the Transfiguration (DECOFT)- Continental Breakfast- 9:00 AM to 9:30
AM
08/28/20- First Parish Church- 5:00 PM-6:00 PM drive up to side door
08/30/20- St. Jude’s Parish- Lunch- 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Sonshine Soup Kitchen – will be serving drive-by to-go meals on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 4:30-5:30 pm.  If you need food, call 437-2833, extension 1, and leave a message.  Sonshine Soup Kitchen will get back to you to make an appointment for you to pick up food outside of its building.

June Meals

June To-Go Meals:

06/14/20 - Church of the Transfiguration (DECOFT)- 5 PM to 5:30 PM. 06/20/20- St Luke’s Church- 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

06/21/20 – Elijah’s Table (EHS)- 4:45 PM to 5:30 PM 

06/26/20- First Parish Church- 5:00 PM-6:00 PM drive up to side door

06/28/20- Church of the Transfiguration (DECOFT)- Continental Breakfast- 9:00 AM to 9:30 AM

06/28/20- St. Jude’s Parish- Lunch- 1:30 PM-2:30 PM

Sonshine Soup Kitchen –
SERVING DRIVE BY TO-GO MEALS ON TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, AND THURSDAYS 4:30 PM -5:00 PM.   IF YOU NEED FOOD, CALL 437-2833 EXTENSION 1 AND LEAVE A MESSAGE. THE KITCHEN WILL GET BACK TO YOU TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT FOR YOU TO PICK UP OUTSIDE OF ITS BUILDING.

June 26 Spaghetti Supper at First Parish

Free To-Go Meals in May

05/16/20- St Luke’s- To go bags- 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

05/29/20- First Parish, 5:00 PM-6:00 PM drive up to side door

05/31/20- St. Jude’s simple bag lunch, 1:30 PM-2:30 PM

Sonshine Soup Kitchen – TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS, 4:30 PM TO 5:00 PM, to go bags. If you need food, please call 437-2833 dial the number one and leave a message. Sonshine Soup Kitchen will be checking the messages during the day and will get back to you as soon as it can. It has "Give a Meal" boxes available that have 6 meals per box in them. It will set up a time for you to come and get one, outside of its building.

APRIL MEALS

APRIL TO GO MEALS

1.  04/24/20- First Parish, 5:00 PM-6:00 PM drive up to side door
2.  04/26/20- St. Jude’s simple bag lunch, 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
3.  Sonshine Soup Kitchen – If you need food please call 437-2833 and leave a message. The Sonshine Soup Kitchen will be checking the messages during the day and will get back to you.  It has Give a Meal boxes available that have 6 meals per box in them.  The Kitchen will set up a time for you to come and get one, outside of
the building.

COVID-19 RESPONSE

All meals are “To-Go":

1.      03/27/20- First Parish, 5:00 PM-6:00 PM will have spaghetti supper but only “To Go.”  The meals will be passed out to cars as they drive in.

2.      03/29/20- St. Jude’s simple bag lunch, 1:30 PM-2:30 PM

3.      04/12/20- St. Jude’s, 1:30 PM-2:30 PM Special Easter Sunday Take Out

4.      04/18/20- St. Luke’s, 5:00 PM-6:30 PM

5.      Sonshine Soup Kitchen – 4:30 PM to 5:00 PM Monday through Friday - pick up a TO GO

6.      Church of the Transfiguration is not offering dinner in April and May because of Easter and Mother's Day.  

7.      Etz Hayim is not offering dinner in April, May, or June.  It hopes to offer a picnic in July.  Stay tuned for more information. 

It takes a Thanksgiving village.

It takes a lot of time and people to make a great Thanksgiving Day meal for 100 or so folk.  Here are some pictures of the volunteers who gathered at the Derry Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration early today to help out.  And we got some pics of guests who arrived early, too:  it's a warm, sweet,  family vibe here, so why not come early?  By the way, it's not too late to join us.  Dinner will go to 2:30 p.m.  There is freshly roasted turkey; home-made mashed potatoes, squash, and green bean cassorole; apple, blueberry, pumpkin, and chocolate cream pie; and lots of other stuff.

Ready to serve!

The Thanksgiving elves spent all day on the 27th peeling, chopping, and cooking.  Please join us for a great Thanksgiving Day meal on Thursday from 1 to 2:30 at the Derry Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration On Hood Road in Derry.

Summertime and the living is easy.

I was chatting with my son about blogs, and realized with horror that I hadn't updated this page in a long time.  What's my excuse?  It's summertime, and the living is easy...and a bit lazy.(click here).

Neverthess, Elijah's Table carries on, with good food and friendly faces.  Here are some pics sent to me from Sunday August 18's dinner at Etz Hayim Synagogue.  Join us in September.

What are these ladies fighting over?

Pretty in pink.

What is better than smiling volunteers?

What goes together like a horse and carriage?

What goes together like a horse and carriage?  Soup and salad!  We had a wonderful "indoor picnic" today at Etz Hayim Synagogue of tuna, egg, pasta, and garden salads, watermelon, ice cream donated by Moo's Ice Cream, and crispy pita bread.  Where does the soup come in?  One of our "kids" worked with PJ Our Way to create bags of soup kits that we distributed to our grateful clients.  We are so lucky to have kids who want to be involved in their communities, and lucky to have a community of wonderful people who visit us each month.  Elijah's Table at Etz Hayim Synagogue is taking off for June as our usual day (the third Sunday of the month) is Father's Day, but we'll see you in July.  Have a great month. 

The volunteers.

The kids who made the soup kits.  What a terrific group!

Beautiful weather, beautiful people.

It was a beautiful day outside, today, wasn't it?  And with it came many of our friends for a wonderful and complete meal.  See you soon.

Sweet volunteers.

Flower girl and friends.

Girlfriends come early to chat.

Girlfriends come early to chat, #2.

A great smile.

Volunteers smile, too.

Volunteers smile, too, #2.

Handsome guy.

Eat your veggies.

Eat more veggies.

Eat lots of veggies.

Okay, now you can have your cake. 

Go Fund Free Meals!

For those of you who make use of this blog, perhaps letting your constituents know of free meals in the area, please consider making a donation to the Go Fund Me(als) page of Elijah's Table.  This money will go Elijah's Table partners--the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in Derry and Etz Hayim Synagogue--and will be used to fund our meals.   Here's the link:  
https://www.gofundme.com/fundelijahstablefreemeals

January 20 Elijah's Table Cancelled Due to Impending Storm

SADLY, WE ARE CANCELLING ELIJAH'S TABLE FOR 1/20 DUE TO THE IMPENDING SNOW SNOW.   BE SAFE. 

The weather outside was frightful, but the food was delightful.

I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday breakfast at Etz Hayim this past Sunday.  It was lovingly put together by many volunteers.  We had vegetable quiche, cheese quiche, pancakes with three different kinds of syrup (maple, blueberry and strawberry), kugels, muffins, hot chocolate with marshmallows, and even peppermint sticks.  What a treat!

The volunteers, Photo #1.

The volunteers, Photo #2.

Volunteer getting "a commission."

"We'll smile for you."

Post-meal relaxation.

Just enjoying our time together.

Chocolate and candy canes.

And healthy food, too!

Please join us for a YUMMY breakfast on 12/16.

Thank you for spending the afternoon with us.

Thank you for spending Thanksgiving Day with the Community Meals Network at the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration.  Special thanks to the Salvation Army for organizing all the nonprofits that are involved in this wonderful community activity.  The meal, music, and company were wonderful.  (PS, remember that December's free meal at Etz Hayim Synagogue is BREAKFAST on December 16.  See you then.)

Happy customers.

The musician and two Salvation Army organizers. 

The ladies from the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration displaying the soup kits Sunday School students
made as giveaways.

The first shift of servers, including folks from Etz Hayim Synagogue
and the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration.

Amy Dattner Levy sang folk music nonstop.

 Handsome and happy.

The lead chefs.

Gathering in thanks and fellowship.