Hunger Awareness Mission to the Twin Cities 7/31-8/1/2010

1. Hunger Awareness Mission to the Twin Cities 7/31-8/1/2010 Elder’s Lodge & First Nations Kitchen, All Saints Episcopal Church

2. Hunger Awareness • 22 youth and adults travel to the Twin Cities for a weekend. • Representing: • Hope Lutheran Church • St. John’s Episcopal Mission • Kinship Partners • Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, Youth Division

5. The Elders Lodge, St. Paul

6. Elders Lodge is an independent living community made up of 42 subsidized one-bedroom apartments located on Magnolia Avenue on Saint Paul’s East Side. Elders Lodge provides affordable, service-enriched housing for low income adults age 62 and older.

7. Rev. Jennie Lightfoot

8. Sweat Lodge

11. Elders Lodge • No meals served on the weekends, so Rev. Jennie invited us to serve the Elders. • Intern Ellen Ayres recruited Lori Gooch, Hazel Osen and others to help prepare a buffalo stew in Hope’s kitchen. • They froze the stew, placed it in coolers for the trip to the Cities, then heated it up in roasters in the Lodge Kitchen

40. All Saints Episcopal Mission • Phillips Neighborhood of St. Paul • Rev. Robert Two Bulls and Rev. Barbara Fairbanks • Pastor Mark invited to preach Sunday Morning, August 1 • Intern Ellen Ayres, assisting minister • Located near Lake Street & Cedar Avenue

45. First Nations Kitchen • Sunday evening feeding program launched on All Saints’ Sunday, November 2, 2008.  • Our goal is to serve healthy, organic traditional indigenous food in a welcoming, family environment every Sunday from 5:30 – 6:30 pm.  • The fare is based on the ancestral diet of First Nations people. 

46. First Nations, Continued • Our target clientele is the Indigenous community in the Twin Cities, residents of near-by Little Earth of the United Tribes housing community and people from the neighborhood.  • All are welcome, and part of the wonder of this offering is the opportunity for people with different economic and cultural backgrounds to break bread together.