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Sunday morning breakfast served
by Guest
(Photo caption) VOLUNTEERS for Fountain of Life Pentecostal Church’s breakfast include John Coleman, director; Karen Ester and Vicki Goulds.
Routinely most churches have busy Sundays, but for one local church some Sundays are on a high level of activity.
Fountain of Life Pentecostal Church, located at 2512 Brushy Mountain Road, has been serving breakfast several times a year to people in need and the community since 2003, meaning over 5,000 breakfast plates.
Volunteers from the church's 80-90 member congregation prepare, serve and deliver the meals, averaging around 125 plates a time. Members of the church buy the supplies for the meals with the exception of donations of gravy mix by Hardee's, to-go boxes by the Coffee House, and country ham by Goodnight Brothers in Boone.
Breakfasts are taken to Wilkes Towers and shut-ins in the community as well as local law enforcement. Meals are also served to anyone who comes to the church’s fellowship room around 9 a.m. on Sundays.
Volunteers, usually around 12, come as early as 5:30 a.m. on Sunday mornings to prepare the assortment of breakfast foods. Typically they use two dozen eggs, 12 dozen biscuits, eight packs of Hardee's gravy mix, 325 pieces of bacon, 250 plus pancakes, two gallons of milk and orange juice. With delivery and clean up, volunteers usually spend at least four hours with the breakfast project.
The breakfast project takes place on the last Sunday of every other month. The next breakfast will be the last Sunday in September.
"When we first started, we had breakfasts on the fifth Sunday of the month, meaning only the months that had five Sundays," said Jane Prevette, a volunteer with the church’s breakfast project.
"But since the economy has become so bad, we are doing the breakfast every other month," said Mrs. Prevette, who picks up gravy mix donated by Hardee's for the breakfasts.
"Hardee's has always been so helpful and faithful to our needs,” said Mrs. Prevette. "I call the manager, Andrea Yates, about a week before we have the breakfasts and she orders what we need."
The present director for the breakfast project is John Coleman. The first breakfast director was Matt Ledford and the next was David Jones. The minister of the church is the Rev. Marc Abernathy, who is very supportive of the project, said Mrs. Prevette. |
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