Friends and members of Grace, and followers of this blog, know that on the first Monday of each month, Grace is responsible for providing the evening meal to shelter guests and others from the community who might find their way to our doors. Today was the first Monday in January, it was also the day of the Rose Bowl. We were worried that we wouldn’t have enough volunteers to help, and hopeful that because of the game, we would have fewer guests. Neither of those things happened. We had lots of volunteers, including a contingent from Madison Mennonite Church.

The meal was excellent, a baked pasta dish, with green beans on the side. The ice cream  came to us via the Fire Department. Musical entertainment was provided by Fungus Humongous who shared their music with us last year.

Three photos from tonight:

Other members of Grace will be at the church early tomorrow morning to cook breakfast for shelter guests, and most of us will be back next month, to provide another meal. Corrie and I didn’t stay throughout the meal and for clean-up, so I can’t report on how many people we served, but the shelter had been averaging right around 150 guests last week.