Dinner Update

Our first two months of hosting a free community dinner in Callahan has been more of a success then we ever could have imagined!

Our first dinner we served about 40 guests. Since then it has grown every Wednesday and we currently serve about 150 guests a night. Because we are able to help so many people we now have to change our location. July the 8th we will start serving dinner at the Callahan Fairgrounds in the 4-H Building. This is where we hand out our weekly distribution on Mondays.

We are so very thankful the community has benefited from the dinners. We have heard so many thanks from everyone who attends. The Gleaners Office would like to take a moment to personally thank Paul Schwend, Linda Lee, and DJ who work extremely hard throughout the week to ensure these dinners are a success. We would also like to thank the First United Methodist Church of Callahan for their volunteer with the dinners in the month of June. We hope other churches will also help us in the coming weeks as it takes many people to help feed those in need.

What we are seeing is more than just providing a free meal to those in need but also finding other resources the community can use. An example of this is Eddie Jordon aka "BB", who volunteers at the dinners on Wednesdays. While working with him we found that he was in desperate need of an eye exam and glasses. Through networking we found Dr. Marks who offered to help BB free of charge. There are many other examples of neighbors helping neighbors going on. Which is really what it is all about, PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE!