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TMCNet: New soup kitchen

[January 30, 2010]

New soup kitchen

Jan 30, 2010 (Odessa American - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- James Forshee has been homeless for about a year since losing his job, but now the 56-year-old Odessan at least has a full lunch each day at the Bearly Unique Blessings soup kitchen at Faith Temple Fellowship.


"There's no work out there, and the age doesn't help, but this is a great place. It's a good Christian environment with good food," he said. "They'll help people out any way they can." Forshee has 35 years of experience as a journeyman finisher, taper and remodeler, but he is struggling after his truck and tools were stolen.

"There's a lot of skilled people here that just need a little bit of help," he said.

Bearly Unique Blessings can feed the bodies of the needy -- and clothe them as well.

"I just got these shoes," Bryan White said, pointing to his feet. "They do more than feed us." He said he has been homeless since he lost his job with Patterson Oil Drilling more than a year ago, but he believes he will be back at work soon with the company. But, as he waits, the church has made a difference with the new soup kitchen.

"They have been so good and caring to me," White said.

Bearly Unique Blessings coordinator Laurie Ellis said that she feeds close to 70 people a day since the program opened in late October, first for church people and then to the wider community.

"I figured out that we fed 2,210 people in 2009 for roughly 30 cents a person. We can do this for $150 a day," Ellis said.

She said the kitchen receives donations of both food items and money to help cover the cost of its operations, but it isn't always easy to make financial ends meet.

Ellis developed the idea for the soup kitchen over time because many don't have access to other locations to eat lunch in the city.

Almost immediately after it opened, the number of people eating increased from around 20 to 50 and higher.

"It escalated quickly as word got out," she said.

Meals include a minimum of one meat, vegetable and dessert, such as beef goulash, corn bread and German chocolate cake, or ham, baked beans, scalloped potatoes and pound cake.

"We try to keep it balanced," she said.

She emphasized that the kitchen isn't just for the homeless, but for the working poor or anybody that needs help with covering one meal during the day.

"There's a lot of people that need to come in toward the end of the month because they run out of money," Ellis said.

She said she hopes to eventually open her own restaurant part-time to help fund the soup kitchen, as well as expand to evening meals.

"We need more volunteers and help to do that," she said.

Right now, one group volunteers to supply meals on Friday nights, but only breakfast and lunch are served the other six days of the week.

The facility is in the process of being upgraded as well. Two small stoves will soon be replaced with a 10-burner double commercial stove donated to Bearly Unique Blessings. Additional storage is also needed.

"Right now we don't have a lot of room to keep the food we need," she said.

Wake Up & Dream Director Mariah Stittsworth said Ellis works for her program and is a graduate herself from when the program offered classes at Odessa College.

"Now she's here working so hard. It took a lot of guts to start this from nothing," she said.

Keith Watson has been homeless for three months and comes to eat lunch at the kitchen periodically.

"It's a good thing. People need to eat, and I wouldn't have another place to go if they weren't open," he said.

DONATIONS The Bearly Unique Blessings Soup Kitchen needs both financial and food donations, including the following items: -- Meat, including canned tuna and chicken.

-- Cooking staples like sugar and flour.

-- Fresh vegetables and fruits.

-- Bread products.

-- Canned vegetables and fruits.

-- Canned tomato products and spaghetti sauce.

-- Canned soups.

-- Rice and pasta.

-- Condiments.

-- Disposable supplies like plates and napkins.

Financial donations in the form of check or money order can be made out to Wake Up and Dream, 1335 E. Sixth St., Odessa, TX 79761. Visit: http://tinyurl.com/ydu6m2k.

HOURS -- Breakfast is served at 8 a.m. on Sundays and 6 a.m. Monday through Friday.

-- Lunch is served from noon to 1:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Sundays.

-- Supper is served at 7 p.m. on Fridays.

To see more of the Odessa American, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.oaoa.com. Copyright (c) 2010, Odessa American, Texas Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA.

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