The host location will supply (for 100-150 people):

• Table and chairs

• Volunteers (approximately 6)

• Working kitchen

• Miscellaneous kitchen supplies as needed

• Beverages (coffee, water, lemonade, milk - pick two)

Optional Items:

• Musical performances, crafts or anything that highlights your church

• Centerpieces for tables, decorations.

• Other condiments (butter or margarine, Parmesan cheese)

*Please note The Community Meal may be able to provide/assist with food donations. 

The Community Meal will supply (for 100-150 people):

• Event advertising (e-mail, online postings, social media postings, location signage, etc.)

• Provide sponsor donations

• Warming equipment and miscellaneous kitchen utensils as needed (for pick-up)

• Two Community Meal coordinators and additional volunteers upon request

Day of Meal Schedule (Indoor Dining)

3:30 PM

• Prep food

• Set up dessert, salad and beverage tables

• Set up greeter table/area – name tags, markers

• Set up dinner tables (seating for at least 100 people)

• Make beverages (i.e. lemonade, iced tea, water or coffee)

• Set up desserts

5:00-6:15 PM

• Greet and meet the guests

• Serve food

• Bus tables

• Replenish food as needed

6:15-7:15 PM

• General clean-up

• Load equipment into The Community Meal's vehicles

• Barrington Park District

• Barrington United Methodist Church

• Cary United Methodist Church

• Community Church of Barrington

• First United Methodist Church, Palatine

• Greencastle Manor

• Igelsia Corona de Amor

• Immanuel Lutheran Church & School, Palatine

• Lutheran Church of the Atonement

• Messiah Lutheran Church, Wauconda

• Presbyterian Church of Barrington

• Prince of Peace, Hoffman Estates

• St. Anne's Catholic Church

• St. Matthew Lutheran Church

• St. Michael's Episcopal Church

• St. Paul United Church of Christ

• Salem United Methodist Church

• SS Peter & Paul Catholic Church, Cary

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