Potters House Community Kitchen (Potter’s House) is a ministry that Friendly Avenue Church of Christ (FACC) actively works with as part of the Urban Ministries of Greensboro. Since the late 1980’s FACC has served meals at what is known as the Potter’s House. The second Saturday of the month is our service date where we serve up to 350 people in need. Community kitchen guests come from all over the city, and for many of them, this may be the only meal they will eat that day. Potter’s House has an open-door policy – everyone is welcome, without question or qualification.
The Saturday lunch begins promptly at 10:30 AM when the doors open, and the first of the guests start to stream in. Each guest would be seated and served a drink from the beverage station and a tray from the food line. By 12:30 the last of the guests have received their meal. Frequently, more than 350 guests will be fed during the community lunch hour.
While most service volunteers provide from the stores of the Food Pantry, FACC continues to provide our food menu including ham, green beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, peaches, and bread. The menu rarely changes, so the team members frequently take some “ownership” of their area of preparation which significantly impacts the quality of food. These meals are paid for through donations of our members.
We would like to build a second team and return to providing the service opportunity to our members every month. To do this, we need more volunteers. Each team needs 7-10 members so that at least 5-6 people serve on the appointed Saturday.
The current team, Team 1, led for many years by Larry Plott, has a great base of volunteers and several families have joined this year. We plan to use Larry’s leadership and Team 1 to train volunteers each month of May, June, and July and, hopefully, have Team 2 ready to serve in rotation beginning in August. We can only do this if we have enough volunteers and a leader for Team 2. Please let Larry Plott or Kevin Herrmann know if you would like to serve. The commitment to serve after training is every other month in rotation for 3 hours, six days a year. Urban Ministries is located at 305 West Gate City Blvd, Greensboro, NC 27406.
Commitment to this ministry means that you are willing to serve for approximately 3 hours, six days a year.