Enid Welcome Table

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What is Enid Welcome Table?

Enid Welcome Table, EWT, is a community meal on Sunday evenings for ANYONE who is hungry.

Every week a different community group plans, prepares, and serves  our meal to those in need.

 Sundays were the only day of the week the food insecure weren't fed in the city of Enid, without religious expectations. When EWT heard of this, we knew we wanted to put forward an opportunity for a meal with NO STRINGS ATTACHED, so that the most vulnerable in our city do not go without food from Saturday until Monday.

EWT hopes that you, or your organization, will want to fill the void with us by helping to serve a meal one Sunday a year. We are calling upon the community of Enid to help care for our citizens who are in desperate need of help.

Will you and your organization consider signing for a Sunday to prepare a meal for those in great need? By doing so, we as a community, will show those in Enid who live in constant food insecurity that they have not been forgotten and are valuable and cared for by many.

EWT is generously hosted in the kitchen at Central Christian Church.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Your organization will plan a meal, purchase any necessary ingredients, prepare the meal, serve the meal, and help clean up after meal service.

  • Please plan on feeding 200+ guests. Typically we serve 120-180 people however planning on almost double allows us to serve seconds. Every week attendance is different and we would rather have more than not enough!  Extra food can be taken to your place of choice.  We often send extra food to other feeding programs.

  • Meals should include an entrée, a side item, bread, and a dessert.  Our guests do not like meat that is on bones (chicken for example).  Many have dental issues, so food that needs to be cut up can be a problem.  They love food that evokes memories of Grandma's house on Sunday.

  • 3:00PM - Kitchen opens for prep/cooking

    4:00PM - Meeting with EWT Committee member to discuss service and assign volunteer roles

    4:30PM - Meal service begins

    5:30PM - Meal service ends and clean up begins

    6:00PM - Go home (This is an approximate time and may fluctuate within 10 minutes)

  • Our kitchen at Central Christian Church is a treasure to our service. There you will find commercial sized pans, electric roasters, large stock pots, full sized sheet pans, two convection ovens, commercial stove top with 6 burners, commercial refrigerators and freezers, mixers, and just about any other utensils needed for cooking.  There is no frying in our kitchen.  You may bring a grill or flat top to cook outside, but please allow sufficient time to cook enough food.

  • Yes! You can prepare food offsite.  Please follow food safety guidelines that can be found online.  We can arrange for grocery drop off before Sunday.  Call the church to get a contact and make arrangements.

  • No. Our service is provided to our guests with no strings attached. This is the heart of EWT and in an effort to keep this expectation we do not allow materials to be handed out.  Exceptions would be flyers about other feeding programs, clothing availability, etc.

  • We recommend 15-20 volunteers. Our committee has many volunteers that are there every week to assist with the meal.

    Have more than 20? No problem! There are plenty of opportunities to serve for everyone on Sunday.

  • Yes! Yes! Yes! Kids are always welcome as volunteers! We ask that the proper amount of adult supervision be provided when a large group of children or teens are volunteering.

 

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Click here to email us info@enidwelcometable.com

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Central Christian Church
(580) 233-1214

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Monetary donations can be made in person or mailed to:

Central Christian Church
1111 W Broadway
Enid, OK 73703