Mt. Morris Monthly Meals

Well over a year ago members of the Community Outreach Team of the Mt. Morris Church of the Brethren began planning monthly breakfasts to be held at Pinecrest Grove in Mt. Morris. The purpose of the breakfasts was to offer a good, hot meal to those in the community with limited income and to get Mt. Morris community groups together to help serve the breakfast.

We held the first monthly pancake and sausage breakfast in July 2011. Since then over 15 breakfasts have been served. Twenty four separate community groups have helped serve including former High School classes, businesses, fraternal organizations, clubs, church groups, boards of the village, the library and the Post Office. Over 147 workers from the community have participated. Over 30 members of the Mt. Morris congregation planned, organized and cooked, many every month.

No set charge is made for the breakfast but donations are accepted. So far contributions have exceeded expenses with the surplus going to the Pinecrest Good Samaritan Fund, the Loaves and Fish food pantry, an Eagle Scout’s playground project and toward programming at the local library. The local Fire and Police Departments served breakfast in October with donations going to the local Toys for Tots Program.

Those in the photo are: Frank and Dianne Swingel,
Steve Haney, Mary Lou Garrison, Pastor Ginny
Haney, Brenda Nevenhoven, Marge Powers,
Anastasia Gordon, Jim Rosenberger.