Our eating facility at the Soup Kitchen is a big cavernous dining hall. And much of the time it feels like…well…a big cavernous dining hall. Clean and well-kept but sometimes lacking in ambience. Until now.
Thanks to the creativity of My Father's World, a home-school cooperative named after the curicuulum that they use, the dining room now sparkles with holiday cheer. The group came to serve the evening meal at the Men’s Shelter last Monday night and they brought more than food. They set up an artificial Christmas tree in one corner of the room, adorning it with winsome hand-made ornaments. Each table in the dining room is also graced with a beautiful red and silver centerpiece of Christmas balls in a silver painted flower pot, sitting atop sparkly red star fabric. They’re beautiful.
Kate Funk, the volunteer service coordinator of My Father's World, said that as a group, they want their children to learn to serve others. She says, "As for the idea of decorating, I just thought it would be a way to bless others. We got all the kids together ahead of time and made Christmas decorations for the tree and the centerpieces. They actually decorated the tree when we got there. It was a lot of fun and a joy to watch our children serve."
To read about how another home-school cooperative is including service at EECM in their lessons, click here.
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