St. Mary's Food Kitchen

We continue to have a need to provide meals for the less fortunate, especially in this unprecedented time that we are in. Our parishserves meals at St. Mary’s Food Kitchen the third Thursday each month. We normally prepare and cook the meals on site at St. Mary’s, but for the month of April we will need to prepare sack lunches ahead of time and deliver them for distribution to the guests in need. We need to prepare a total of 450 lunches, so we are looking for 45 volunteers to each prepare 10 sack lunches and deliver them our church’s main entrance on Wednesday-April 15th between 8:00-9:00 am. We'll have volunteers to receive these sack lunches from you and they will deliver them to the food kitchen in downtown Kansas City, KS.

Here is what would be needed in each sack lunch:

One sandwich (a typical loaf of white or wheat bread should allow for making 10 sandwiches).

•  1 or 2 slices of ham, roast beef, chicken, or turkey type deli meat
•  One slice of cheese (American, Colby, Cheddar, or similar mild cheese
•  One piece of fruit (a banana or orange for example, no apples please
• One individual bag of chips or crackers
• One dessert such as cookies, brownie square, dessert bar, etc ...
• One napkin
•  One bottle of water (12 to 16 ounce)

Sandwiches and desserts (if necessary) should be individually wrapped in plastic bags. The entire contents of each sack lunch should be put in a plastic (not paper) bag such as the type of bag that is used to bag groceries at Hy-Vee, Walmart, Target, etc ... The reason for this is that the weight of each bag (including the bottle of water) tends to be too heavy for a typical brown paper lunch sack. This could be a fun family activity to prepare these 10 sack lunches while continuing to focus on serving others in this particular time of need.

If you would like to volunteer to provide 10 lunches, please send an email to Mick Kelly mgk0924@outlook.com and then deliver your lunches on Wednesday-April 15th anytime between 8:00 am – 9:00 am to the circle drive in front of our church where volunteers will be waiting to collect the lunches from you.

Thank you, and God bless you.
Mick Kelly, Holy Trinity coordinator for St. Mary’s

"Thanks to all who help out with this worthwhile effort to support the less fortuntate in our community."