Updates On Middletown's Soup Kitchen

What You Can Do At the Soup Kitchen After the Dishes Are Cleared

There’s a lot more than soup being served up at the Soup Kitchen. There are great groups and activities to indulge in well after dessert.

Borrow a book from the Soup Kitchen Library, a project of the Altrusa Club. Mysteries and spy novels are the favorites that are restocked weekly for loan or for keeps.

Play chess or watch an intense game. Boards are available during all of our open hours. Join a small group of crossword puzzle enthusiasts who meet on a daily basis for puzzle solving.

Draw with Soup Kitchen Gallery artist-in-residence, Abby Carter who spends Tuesday mornings in the dining room sketching and sharing art with guests. If you have not seen her display of portraits of Soup Kitchen regulars you are missing a stunning exhibit of talent and humanity.

Get your green thumb on. Join our group that maintains the SVDM plot in the Erin Street Community Garden that produces an array of herbs and vegetables in the summer and are used by Chef Jeremiah Rufini in his extraordinary cuisine.

Share your words at Writer’s Block, a group for anyone who enjoys or wishes to explore writing that meets on Thursday afternoons at 2:30. It is a no pressure group that focuses on having fun with writing.

Come play! Game Night is held in the Soup Kitchen on the second Friday of each month between 7 and 9 PM. Ping pong (beginners to expert), spades, chess, and checkers make for good entertainment and lots of competition.

Get help. Come to Connect-to-Care, an outreach and engagement fair and meet with local service providers’ right in the Soup Kitchen. C-T-C meets the second Thursday of each month between 10 and 11 AM. You can see homeless outreach specialists, housing, employment, treatment and recovery experts, and government agencies and get help right away. Receive a gift of hygiene supplies.

Be well. You can get flu shots, sign-up for free eye exams and glasses, extensive health screening services, HIV and hepatitis C testing, veterans’ services and events, free dental clinics, housing enrollment opportunities and many more opportunities and events.

Join L.E.A.D (Leadership, Empowerment, Advocacy, and Development) a group of individuals who have experienced homelessness and participate in an advocacy group and speaker’s bureau. A subcommittee of Middlesex County Coalition on Housing and Homelessness, the group meets twice monthly on Friday afternoons.

Join the Soup Kitchen Advisory Board. SKAB is made up of regular guests of the Soup Kitchen that provides guidance to staff on matters of Soup Kitchen policy.

Meals: Welcome Table Wednesday, community dinner Wednesdays, Christ Lutheran Church at 300 Washington Street, Middletown, 6-7 p.m.