Woodruff Area Soup Kitchen

We love to provide opportunities for students to fulfill their community service requirements! Today our Conner Flynn’s chefs, Sergio and Charlie, enjoyed the assistance of WHS Beta Club member, Genesis Guevara and her sister, Marcia.

Menu for today: hotdogs with chili, german potato salad and
white cake with chocolate frosting

Needless to say, our patrons with grateful hearts thoroughly enjoyed the food! 😋🙏

Thanks to our weekend volunteers, we are replenished and ready to start a new week at the Soup Kitchen!❤️🙏😊

Spaghetti, beans, salad and roll…that was today’s menu by Ms. Rosa Norman. Ms. Rosa has been a head cook almost since the Soup Kitchen began in 2007. Other Friday volunteers were Wayne and Reba Brown, Gordon Godfrey, Ann Shepherd, Donna Smalley, and Estina Stewart. We are grateful for all they did to make sure our patrons got a good hot meal today!

We are very thankful for the beautiful paint job that Kevin Lamb did on the interior of our building! His good deeds are just another example of one using his talents to help accomplish our mission of providing meals for those in need.

Shelley McCandless has served as head cook three days this week and has made it look easy! She is super organized and has such a loving heart for our people.

Stuffed manicotti, salad, garlic toast, and dessert were on today’s menu.

We are thankful to have some new volunteers today introduce to you:
Nemiah Crowe, Colleen Filkins, Estina Stewart and Kinston Taylor

We are grateful for all our volunteers and for those throughout our community who contribute to the success of our mission to provide meals for those in need!❤️🙏😊

Little Caesars in Woodruff is another one of our Soup Kitchen supporters. They donate their day old pizzas and each patron may take one home.😊

Loving God, loving others on this beautiful Monday! Our Conner Flynn’s, Maverick Biscuit, and Travinia Italian Kitchen chefs have wowed our patrons again with
beef stroganoff, green bean casserole, garlic bread and chocolate cake with strawberry sauce. Assisting in serving the meal was Cindy Burchill. Tommy Fortner picks up donated bakery goods from Publix every Monday. Our dining room volunteers were Tommy Fortner, Cory Walker and Colin Burchill. Their service is greatly appreciated!❤️😊

Preparation for the coming week involves picking up food donations. Today we thank our volunteers, Terrence and Starla Brown Wilson and sons Brayden and Ronan for picking up at Food Lion. Picking up at Publix were Jason and Casie Westmoreland Foster. We are very grateful for these volunteers as well as the two grocery stores who support us.

This teen, Noah Miller, and his dad Shenandoah helped replenish our supplies today by picking up food donations from our local Food Lion. Each and every volunteer plays an important role in accomplishing our mission of providing meals for those in need!❤️🙏

Is your church looking for a local mission opportunity? We are searching for churches to participate by preparing and serving an evening meal and leading a time of worship. The meal can be prepared with food items that we have on hand at the Soup Kitchen or your church may choose to furnish them. We do this once a month on the second Tuesday at 5:30 PM. Please reply if your church would like to sign up for an upcoming month. Gordon Godfrey is our contact person.

Today’s head cook, Shelley McCandless, says thank you to Bellview Baptist Church for providing us with a great lunch today. It was a hit with our Wednesday patrons!

Thank you to our Soup Kitchen Sweethearts, Gordon and Dianne Godfrey, for picking up bakery donations from Publix every Wednesday morning!

Our Tuesday patrons enjoyed steak sandwiches, deviled eggs, coleslaw and cake. Thank you to head cook, Shelley McCandless, and support volunteers, Ray, Wayne, Corey, Hannah, Micaela, Cindy and Colin for making it happen!

Sergio and Charlie, we appreciate the way you take time away from your restaurants (Maverick Biscuit, Conner Flynn’s Public House and Travenia Italian Kitchen) to volunteer every Monday as our head cooks (chefs). Today they featured smothered chicken, garlic
mashed potatoes, Korean vegetables, and eclairs for dessert! Thanks so much to these guys and our support volunteers, Tommy, Mike, Cindy and Colin! Our patrons are grateful for this nourishing meal!

We appreciate our weekend volunteers who replenish our supplies by picking up food donations from Food Lion and Publix. This weekend’s volunteers were Ann and Danny Knight, Jodie Hamilton and family, and Terrence and Starla Wilson and family. These folks play an integral role in helping us accomplish our mission of providing meals for those in need. (No current pictures were made this weekend, so we took the liberty of using some previous photos.)

Marion, produce manager at Food Lion, gathers and scans out items to be donated to the Soup Kitchen. We appreciate him and others in the meats and bakery departments who share a role in supporting our mission of providing meals for those in need!

Happy Independence Day from the volunteers and patrons at Woodruff Area Soup Kitchen!🇺🇸

We appreciate volunteer Mark Veilleux filling in for Dina as head cook today. Thanks to other volunteers Mike, Shannon, Jason, Cindy, Colin and Cory for their hard work and dedication to serving others.

Mediterranean Monday by Sergio Briceno and Charlie Sutter from Conner Flynn’s, Maverick Biscuit/Travinia Italian Kitchen…thankful for our Monday chefs!

Replenishing our food supply Saturday was volunteer Michael Arnold. Thank you to Michael and Food Lion for the food donations.

Selma Baptist Church Women’s Missionary Union showered us today with some much needed food items and supplies. Thank you to all who participated as well as to Annette Miles for coordinating and delivering to us today!❤️🙏

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our faithful volunteer, Phyllis Williams! She and her husband, Ken, pick up bakery donations from Publix for us once a week and have been doing this for years!🎉🎂🎈🎁

We are more than grateful to Shelley McCandless for taking over head cook duties for the last couple of weeks on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Pictured here is longtime volunteer, Delora Hardin, helping with today’s meal prep. It takes a lot of volunteers each week to accomplish our mission of providing meals for those in need! Thanks to all who make it happen!

Happy 33rd birthday to Terrence Wilson who volunteers by picking up food donations at Food Lion and Publix. Terrence, we appreciate all that you and your family do to help carry out our mission of providing meals for those in need.❤️🎊😊

Monday at the Soup Kitchen…
We thank Charles Sutter from Maverick Biscuit and friend, Jeff Slater, for providing a tasty meal for our patrons. We are so thankful for these local businessmen who demonstrate their caring for our community by helping others in need.

Welcome to our new volunteers!
Assisting Dina Hill on Thursdays is Jayden Cohen and his dad, Craig Pentica, and Shannon Poole.

Tom Manzi and daughter, Anna Manzi, have volunteered to be substitutes where needed.

We are so thankful for these new volunteers as well as Mike and Korey who have been with us for a while.

Happy birthday to Mr. Hartness who supports our local soup kitchen!❤️🎂🎁🎈🎉

What a great Monday at the Soup Kitchen! Thank you Sergio from Conner Flynn’s Public House for preparing and serving a delicious meal and to Katherine and Korey for providing assistance and managing the dining area.

On the menu today is refried beans, stewed vegetables, Chicken a la Christy and fruit cocktail.

As always, thanks to Publix of Duncan for their generous bakery donations this morning!

We want to wish our volunteer, Lynn Vaughn, a HAPPY BIRTHDAY today. We thank her for the ways that she serves God and and loves others through her work at the Soup Kitchen!❤️🎂🎉🎈🎁