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Soup Kitchen News
A Newsletter of MPC’s Food Sharing Ministry
December 2007 |
| The Kuznetsky Most soup kitchen will be celebrating a Christmas party on Monday, December 17 at 11:00. If you can help by purchasing a gift for one of the children please contact Mike. We are collecting wrapped presents costing not more than 300 rubles which will be handed out at the party. You can also help with decorations, snacks or other gifts. Please mark your calendars and join the party.
The soup kitchen committee’s next meeting will be at 12:30 on Monday, Dec. 3 at Evelyn’s house in the German Embassy compound. The meeting is open to anyone wishing to brainstorm with future events and projects. We will be planning the Christmas party for Kuznetsky Most, Christmas gift bags for Mosfilmovskaya, IWC Christmas Bazaar table and future Campina yogurt runs. Please let Evelyn know if you’re attending.
Thanks to the generous monetary gift from Embassy Military Attaché spouses, additional salad, chebureki and peerashki were served periodically last month in addition to the normal lunch. Private individuals also donated cookies, candies and canned meat in November. These gifts are always greatly appreciated by our customers.
Campina donated more yogurts in November. The yogurts are stored in the Parish Center and distributed to our soup kitchen clients, in food bags, and shared with other soup kitchens and orphanages throughout Moscow. Starting in January, we plan to make regular monthly trips to Campina in Stupino using a truck supplied by Allied Pickford.
Profile of the Month: We welcome and serve our customers, but do you know them? Next time you see them, please say hello…
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Client profile:
We’ve all seen Nina coming at the soup kitchen, but did you know this about him?
Nina was born in the Ryazanskiy Region and moved to Moscow in 1939. She studied and received her degree at the Institute of Economics in Moscow and worked
as the Commercial Director in a collection and distribution center for produce and food products. She has one daughter and a grandson, and has been coming to the soup kitchen since 2003.
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Volunteer profile: We’ve all seen Tamara volunteering at the soup kitchen, but did you know this about her?
Tamara first came to the soup kitchen when it opened in 1991 and began volunteering shortly after. She now comes to help whenever possible, almost every day.
Everyone there knows her great smile and warm greeting. She was born near Gorkovskiy Oblast (Nizhny Novgorod) and studied chemistry at the Gorkovskiy Institute.
Tamara was an avid gymnast throughout her student years and continued into her working life. She moved to Moscow in 1956, and worked as a chemistry researcher at
the Moscow Government Institute Laboratories. She was also a Secretary in the Communist Party and has numerous medals. Tamara lives in the Center, near Puchkinskaya
and has no children or relatives in Moscow.
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Actualities+Events
MPC Activities for the week
● All MPC MEN: we meet every week on Tuesday mornings at the Starlight Diner right of Mayakovsky Square at 7:45am. Check out the web blog for the group at
mens bible study
● YOUNG PROFESSIONALS: for more information contact Mr.Kim at 8-910-095-13-69.
● WEDNESDAY WOMEN'S BIBLE STUDY: if you have any questions please contact Stacy Bronkema at the Personage phone number: 143-35-62.
● COMPUTER COURSES: if you have any questions on computer courses please call Parish Center at
143-57-48 or contact Mr. Marcel L. at 8-905-544-93-71.
● ENGLISH COURSES: if you have any questions on English Courses please call Parish Center at
+7 (495) 143-57-48 or contact Mr.Robert Sabo at 8-926-176-33-61 or Mr. George .at 8-909-681-29-35.
Volunteering at the MPC's Soup kitchen on Monday and Wednesday from 10h30am to 12h30pm; on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 11h00am to 13h00pm contact Kifle Salomon at 8-926-256-89-34
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