Desserts Needed for Easter

Charlotte Rescue Mission is providing an Easter Community Dinner on Sunday, March 23, 2008. We are in need of homemade desserts to serve our homeless neighbors in the area. Anyone wanting to share a family treasured dessert can drop them off at the Charlotte Rescue Mission information desk up until Easter Sunday at 10am.

The address is 907 W. 1st street Charlotte, NC 28233, diagonally opposite the Panthers practice field off of Cedar. To reach us by phone please call 704-334-4635

“We make coming to the Rescue Mission on Easter Sunday as special as going to your grandmother’s house” says Rev. Tony Marciano, Executive Director of the Charlotte Rescue Mission.

It all begins with a hot breakfast from 6:00 – 7:30am. A continental breakfast will be served from 8:00 to 11:00 am, followed by our traditional turkey dinner with all the fixings, including our delicious homemade desserts, served between 11:30 and 2:30pm. There will be movies shown during the day. Cell phone will be available for guests to use.

“In addition, our dinner guests will be treated like royalty” says Marciano. “Volunteers will be dressed in white shirts, black pants or skirts to resemble fine dining wait staff. Our guests will be served with heaping portions of food on china, while using silverware and Oneida glass ware, all on a table cloth. There will also be a cloth napkin, folded in a fan, coming from the glass. It resembles a wedding reception.”

The 6am hot breakfast will consist of scrambled eggs, grits, sausage patties, biscuits, orange juice and coffee. Volunteers from Journey Church are preparing and providing the meal.

This Easter, the Charlotte Rescue Mission has been supplied with the use of free cell phones from Sprint cellular phone service. These cell phones are used by the guests to call home to family and friends.

“I’ve heard guests call home and say, “Mom, I’m ok. I’m at the Charlotte Rescue Mission”” says Marciano.

The midday meal will consist of turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, yam, dressing, cranberry sauce and dessert. 112 turkeys are being prepared for the meal. The Easter meal is open to the public. In addition to the homeless, the Mission opens its doors to anyone who wants to celebrate Easter in a family setting.

Charlotte Rescue mission provides a free 90-day Christian residential program for men and women who are addicted to drugs and/or alcohol and are predominately homeless.

Times:
Hot breakfast 6:00 am to 7:30am.
Continental breakfast 8:00 am to 11: am
Easter Dinner 11:30 to 2:30
Movies 6:00 am to 3:00 pm
Cell phones 9:00am to 3:00pm

Where: 907 W 1st Street Charlotte, NC 28233
Diagonally opposite the Panther Practice Fields