StrEat Mobile Bistro Donates To Trinity Community Meal

The StrEat Mobile Bistro restaurant truck pulled into Trinity Lutheran Church's parking lot and set up shop, July 5 at 5pm.  With the 4th of July holiday just over, Trinity had made plans with SMB's co-owner, Michelle Brown, to assist on this hot July day. With the truck outdoors, the Community Room inside was not heated up by a hot kitchen. Trinity members and volunteers from Westpark Schools (coordinated by Haley McDonough) brought pulled pork sandwiches and mac 'n cheese from SMB's truck, enhanced the meal with collard greens and green salad from Trinity Lakewood Community Outreach's garden and served the 62 Community Meal guests at their tables.

This was a wonder of sharing and collaboration that great minds and hearts put together for hungry guests. Trinity Lakewood Community Outreach serves 4 meals a month at Trinity Lutheran Church. TLCO also supports the Lakewood School Supplies Initiative and won a grant from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans that will be put toward calculators for needy Lakewood Schools' students.

TLCO will be sponsoring fresh produce distributions the third Saturday of the next months during harvest season. From 11 am - 1 pm folks may come to 16400 Detroit Avenue and receive produce that will arrive from the Cleveland Foodbank.  Jason Weiner is the coordinator of the produce distribution.

On the third Saturday of August TLCO's Faith Community Nurse, Katie Stadler, has organized a series of health  screenings for folks who come that day. This is in collaboration with North Coast Health Ministry and outreach people from Lakewood Hospital.

An article that ran in the Observer in mid June (by Bill Mack) indicated TLCO as a gatherer of toiletries, cleaning supplies and pet food...things folks cannot purchase with food stamps. This article brought a response of about $700 worth of goods from neighbors. Although the shopping carts (due to a variety of reasons) did not appear in the 4th of July parade, phone calls and offers came in to Trinity Lakewood Community Outreach. And, one of the carts was decorated by Maxine Mack (age 8) placed in front of her home in Lakewood. She found donations placed there, too!

Thank you to all! If you would like to know more about Trinity Lakewood Community Outreach see the Facebook page with the same name or contact Jennifer Wiebusch, CSU intern with TLCO, at ttp://trinitylakewood.weebly.com/index.html.