Trinity Soup Kitchen’s range and ovens have served close to 300,000 meals in the last 25 years.
The Trinity Soup Kitchen range and ovens have seen better days.Courtesy photo
And they’re on their last leg.
The Bethlehem soup kitchen launched a Go Fund Me campaign seeking $16,500 to replace the industrial stove and wall ovens with convection ovens, which has raised $4,525 in the last two weeks.
Now that an anonymous donor has stepped up offering an $8,000 challenge grant, the soup kitchen needs the community’s help to push them to the finish line.
“That’s a very generous person,” said Rev. Liz Miller, Trinity Episcopal Church’s deacon and soup kitchen coordinator.
The soup kitchen offers lunch to about 150 people a day, Monday through Friday, 51 weeks out of Deneme Bonusu the year.
Volunteers arrive around 8 a.m. each weekday to start prepping the day’s lunch, which is served from noon to 1 p.m. Switching to convection ovens would speed up the cooking process, Miller said.
“The stoves and ovens are about 25 years old,” Miller said. “The (stove) has hot spots and things often burn.”
The soup kitchen belongs to Second Harvest Food Bank and is funded largely by an anonymous foundation and other donations. During the recession, funding was tight and shortfalls were common, Miller said.
“There is just so much that has been waiting to be done, including replacing the things we need to cook the food with,” she said. “That is our biggest priority.”
HOW TO HELP
Visit the Go Fund Me page or send donations to Trinity Episcopal Church, 44 East Market St., Bethlehem, 18018. Indicate for “soup kitchen equipment fund” on the memo line.
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