Day 4 Adventures

This morning provided some much needed time off for one group but was another work day for the other. The group that served at Project Open Hand yesterday got the morning off while the other half of us went to Bay Area Rescue Mission for our second day in a row. In the afternoon we all headed down town to experience Glide Memorial - A center dedicated to serving and helping the homeless. It is located in the heart of the tenderloin district (not the nicest area) and the amount of homeless people in that small area is astounding. Glide serves about 3,000 to 4,000 hot meals a DAY. They are the only organization in the U.S. that serves THREE hot meals a day, 365 days a year. Tonight we were involved in serving dinner and it was like nothing any of us have seen before. The line of people waiting to get their food seemed endless. We had an assembly line of dinner items going, people giving the trays out, and people filling water and coffee and clearing tables. After all that was over we made our way back to the vans and then back to the church where we are preparing for tomorrow which will be another double work day for all of us.