The Lobby

The Lobby is looking for Christmas Lobby Bags, and would love your help! What is this you say. Well, we are hoping to pack a bunch of bags and give them out to those who come in for our Sunday Lobby Meals. These Bags will be collected at City Centre Church in the lobby, due by December 20th. Below, we have a bunch of ideas that you could stuff your bags with, but don't feel limited, to just these items. These items are just suggestions:

-small towel

-travel toothpaste

-toothbrush

-liquid body wash/soap

-feminine hygiene products

-small bible

-healthy snacks (granola bars, etc)

-travel mug

-$5 Tim Horton's gift card

--warm socks

If you would like to volunteer, or donate any food supplies, please contact Julie Siman

The Lobby is a community meal that we share together every Sunday evening.  A bunch of youth come out and help prepare a vegan meal during the day on Sunday, then bring it over to the church.  It isn't your typical soup kitchen meal service. We try to make the meals vegan so that all of the youth that help prepare it can eat with us. The dishes are intentionally re-useable.  We want to care for the earth, another command that God gave us in the beginning. 

The Lobby has been a really awesome opportunity for the youth of Edmonton to get involved in something meaningful in the community.  We truly believe that when Jesus said "By this, people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another," (John 13:35) He wasn't joking around. 

For the meal, we actually sit down together around a table and eat and chat.  The goal is for the Lobby to be a place where people feel like they can come and relax and hang feel genuinely cared about.  We don't just want to meet a need, but to care for the whole person, not just a hungry tummy.  Basically, we're just trying to create an atmosphere where people feel at home.  And the best part is rich and poor, short and tall, lonely, or not; every person is welcome to join us.  We pray that God's kingdom come and his will be done in the Lobby, as it is in Heaven.

The Lobby Team is Looking for a few Volunteer Positions to be filled:

Kitchen Manager

To organize volunteers and (prepare) meals for The Lobby.

                ·     Make sure thatall the food is ready and picked up, including donated food and items in theRed Wagon in the church lobby.

·     Pick up "shrink" food (food from Sobey's that has been donated) at some point in the week (anytime in the week even 

     Sunday afternoon).

·     Correspond with Sergio, who does the bread run during the week.

·     Transporting food from the kitchen it is cooked in, over to The Lobby.

                ·     Make sure that there are enough spices, etc. for cooking, and if more is needed to be proactive in purchasing what is 

                    needed (and appropriate) while keeping receipts to be reimbursed.

                ·     Cut up and freeze all appropriate leftovers that are not used at The Lobby, and the rest is to be transported to 

                    House of Refuge.       

                ·     The kitchen at the Youth for Christ office at Wagner high school is available to be used, OR, 

                    you can use your own kitchen to prepare the food. 

·     Work with 2 to 3 other volunteers to help with the food, and supervise their team.

·     Make sure thekitchen and dishes are clean.

·     IDEA: The food could be prepared through out the week as a potluck with other teams members.

Floor  Manager

                 To assure, along with their volunteers, that The Lobby environment is one that issafe, welcoming, and clean.

                ·     Help organize floor volunteers and set up for The Lobby Sunday nights.

                ·     Set up and Tear down:

·     Tables, chairs, utensils, bread, and dishes before The Lobby begins.

·     Help set up tables and chairs for Bible study afterwards.

·     Tear down and Clean up after The Lobby.

·     Help Kitchen team, as well as help them bring leftovers to House Of Refuge.

                ·     Cleanliness: 

·     Make sure that there is clean water for washing dishes.

·     Clean/wipe up coffee table and food area.

·     Empty garbages, throughout the night and at the end of the night.

                ·     Walk through The Lobby and make sure that the Checklist is complete.

                ·     Open and lockup The Lobby.

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            Community Volunteer

                To build community relationship as well as help wherever needed.

                ·     Pray, talk, listen, and pray again.

                ·     Help create a warm and welcoming atmosphere with the community.

            Admin Assistant

                 To help with scheduling, coordinating with leaders, donations, and other administrative help.

                ·     Contact grocery stores and other organizations to help ensure that there is constantly enough food for the Lobby. 

If you would like to volunteer, or donate any food supplies, please contact Julie Siman