![]() ![]() ![]() “What I think Jesus asks of us is to be a first-person giver…which demands that I put my life into proximity of…people,” Adams said during a video interview. However, we hope you will support our work with your prayers and financial gifts. Adams said in a video interview that his goal was to position a welcoming environment in the middle of a needy part of town, somewhere people could come and have food and talk about faith.Īccess to MinistryWatch content is free. The Overflow Cafe, a non-profit coffee shop and eatery, opened its doors in 2013, the passion project of Pastor Brett Adams of nearby Sunnyside Alliance Church. In mid December, one of the meals included pork chops, basil macaroni and cheese and green beans with bacon-and the next night featured pork BBQ. The menus are posted and reserved on Facebook and cooked by Anna and other volunteers. They offer pay-what-you-can meals Tuesday through Friday with a fixed menu.Ĭustomer repeats include five neighborhood families and an elderly couple whose wife is suffering from Alzheimer’s. The dinner program was launched in response to the needs the staff saw throughout the neighborhood during COVID-19, Parr explained. Since they started their dinner program, The Overflow Cafe has given away 600 free dinners and 200 more at the rate of $1 per dinner-a total of almost $14,000 of free food. For many people they don’t have anything, so it’s free.” The families who are coming every night for dinner are paying a dollar or two because that is all they got. “What we are trying to do is be a fresh expression of church to people who don’t go to church. “The impact of what we are doing is feeding people who would otherwise be hungry-helping them stretch whatever money they have a little further,” said Dudley Parr, who manages The Overflow Cafe with his wife, Anna. When the 30 or so regulars pay, the staff reminds them: pay what you can or not at all. Instead of ordering from the large chalkboard menu and dining at one of the seven square tables, The Overflow Cafe staff has dinner packaged to-go-social distance style. On weeknights at 5:30 p.m., locals can be spotted making their way through downtown Cambridge, Maryland, to a corner cafe with a red-tiled roof for dinner. ![]()
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