October 6, 2016 Don’T Miss Chilifest Where the Spirit of Giving Is Warming the Hearts of the Banquet Guests
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Cliff Avenue Greenhouse & Garden Center Hosts ChiliFest - October 6, 2016 Don’t miss ChiliFest where the spirit of giving is warming the hearts of The Banquet guests. ChiliFest is a competitive chili cook-off. Your $20 ticket allows you to sample all the chili and vote for your favorite. When: Thursday, October 6, 2016 Where: Cliff Avenue Greenhouse & Garden Center - 2101 E. 26th St. Sioux Falls Tickets: $20 (purchase at Lewis or at the door) Time: 5 pm- 8 pm. What’s on the inside truly matters for those who are struggling to make ends meet The Banquet is collecting brand new under -garments to give to our guests for Christmas. This includes bras, underwear (boxers for men and teens), undershirts and socks for men, women and children (babies included). Thank you for your gifts for these extremely grateful The guests will be given these new items just families. Most homeless and working poor are used to before Christmas. wearing used clothing. When a young mother can barely afford food and used clothing for her children and herself, Tips for buying a gift for a stranger: buying new underwear is an impossible luxury. Please bring • Buy a packaged gift - 3-pack of boxers or underwear, your gift of brand new undergarments to The Banquet, bra or t-shirts. 900 E. 8th St., Monday- Friday 9:00 am – 5: 00 pm. • Buy your size. Someone will be your size. It will fit them perfectly. Thank you for your gifts to people you may never meet. • Do not wrap gifts. Please know they truly appreciate your thoughtfulness! Sustaining The Banquet Signing Up, Easier Your financial gifts sustain The Banquet ministry by supporting the ongoing Than Ever! general operating expenses of The Banquet. As a non-profit 501(c) 3 organization, The Banquet relies solely on private donations of materials and Have you checked out our new website? cash to pay for milk, coffee and juice; food and equipment; staffing and building We made it extremely user friendly, so costs. Your gifts allow us to continue to help the thousands of guests who pass now when you want to volunteer you through these doors every year. The Banquet not only provides meals for those can sign up completely online! Groups in need but also provides 25,000+ volunteers the opportunity to serve others. and individuals can go to the serve and This ministry allows people to come together to share food and fellowship at sponsor a meal tab to check all dates a common table. Please support The Banquet ministry. we have available for serving and sign up for the day they want at any hour of The Banquet Angel .................................$10,000 the day. Go ahead and check it out at Fellowship for the Body & Soul .......................$5,000 thebanquetsf.org today. The Welcome Table ..................................$2,500 Open Doors ......................................... $1,000 The Banquet receives no city, county, state, federal or United Way monies. Thank you to George Sercl and Sun Enterprises, Inc. for contributing to “Fellowship for the Body & Soul” level. ROUND UP for Milk “My mom says we drink milk at The Banquet and water at home.” – 6 year old Taya The days of skimming the cream from the 5-gallon bucket of milk that you collected from the barn are long gone. Many children do not have access to milk because of the cost. Each night Banquet guests consume about 20-25 gallons of milk costing The Banquet $2,300 each month for milk. Each gallon costs between $2.25 and $2.50 depending on market price. Groups that sponsor a meal commit to cooking, serving and paying for the food. The price of that meal does not include the cost of the milk that is served during the meal. If your group is serving a meal at The Banquet please consider “rounding up” the price on the invoice to the nearest $100. That contribution toward milk will #GivingTuesday make a world of difference toward our milk bill. Mark your calendars for #GivingTuesday. You may also give a specific gift toward our milk fund. Thank you for your This is a day to remember The Banquet generosity. and its guests. Come to Eat. Come to Serve. Come to Offer Hope. This year #GivingTuesday is Tuesday, November 29, 2016. It’s set aside as a day to make a contribution to a program you believe in. An Experience That Sticks! There’s Black Friday for shopping, Cyber Monday for shopping and We have stickers of our Banquet logo! #GivingTuesday for giving back to those Put them on your car, computer, water in need. bottle or anything you want. These are high quality, super durable stickers that will Make your online donations at look like new after harsh weather conditions www.thebanquetsf.org and a run through the dishwasher. Did you know we have t-shirts too? Come Thank you for your contributions and for by, volunteer, and get some helping our guests. Banquet swag! Angels Fulfill Immediate Serving A Volunteer’s Perspective Need But We Need Your Groups By Cynthia Venekamp I have been a volunteer dining room – No Group is Too Small coordinator for almost 8 ½ years. I have done lots of volunteering over The Banquet serves 13 meals a week to low income families and individuals in the years for many other organizations our community. In a perfect world, those meals are all sponsored by a group of but I honestly can say that working 20 to 40 volunteers, who take on the responsibility of preparing, serving, and at The Banquet is truly my calling. cleaning up after each meal. Equally important is their commitment to cover The Banquet guests and staff have the cost of the meal. become like family to me. Many of the guests I would call my friends and As we continue to grow to meet the needs of our community, the need for often refer to them as “my peeps.” volunteers, groups, and financial support increases. Our new website allows For those of you that have never volunteers to go online and see each date that is open to serve, which is had the experience of serving at signified on our calendar by a red box. If you look on our website right now The Banquet, please come. Your heart there is an uncomfortable amount of red in the upcoming months. If a group will be full when you leave. Get your never signs up to serve one of the meals marked in red that is when we call on employer or your church involved to our Angels. “Angels” are individual volunteers who save the day by responding fund the meal and serve our guests. to texts or phone calls with “yes I can serve!” Often, individual angels give There is such a need in the community a contribution toward the meal, which is appreciated but not required, for The Banquet. The fellowship you resulting in each meal that is covered by angels being a meal that is not paid will share with our guests is something for. A total of 60 meals were staffed by Angels this summer (May-August). you will take with you forever. That’s more than $30,000 of food costs that was paid for using money in reserve. The Banquet is able to continue meeting the needs of our community through the generosity of serving groups and other donors. Tag us on Facebook and We need groups to sign up to serve and sponsor each open meal on our calendar. No group is too small – if you only have a few people, we will combine Twitter you up with another small group to get a meal covered. If you are unable to serve consider doing a small fundraiser to cover the cost of a meal. Did you have an amazing time serving? Show us! We love to see photos of our The average plate of food at The Banquet is around $2.50 but that adds up volunteers so snap some while serving when we are serving approximately 500 people at every evening meal. or take a group photo and share it on social media. Don’t forget to tag us! Estimated Meal Costs: Facebook: Banquet Sioux Falls Twitter: TheBanquetSF Breakfast-$350-$.500 Dinner-$750 and up Banquet West-$500 Saturday Lunch-$750 and up Bingo at The Banquet Theme: Celebrate our Veterans! When: Nov. 12th; 3p-5p Where: The Banquet downtown, 900 E. 8th St., Sioux Falls November 12th will mark the first of many Bingo Nights hosted in The Banquet dining room downtown and we are dedicating this first event to our Veterans. Each event is a mini fundraiser with the goal of raising enough money to cover the cost of a Banquet breakfast which is $350. Popcorn and water will be provided and each bingo card costs $1. Come support The Banquet while having a little fun! ALL Veterans and family members are invited to come out to this event. We want to pack the dining room full so spread the word! Gifts in Honor/Memory of Thank you to the many people who give gifts to The Banquet in honor or in memory of a friend or relative. These wonderful gifts help sustain The Banquet ministry. Memorials July 1, 2016 - August 31, 2016. Given By In Honor/Memory of Given By In Honor/Memory of Wayne & Sharon Akland. David Kostboth’s 75th birthday Marvin & Ruth Ann Lorang ....................................Esther Loonan Phyllis Lundberg’s 75th birthday Correen Major ..........Obed & Susanne Nelson’s 50th Wedding Anniversary Dr. Loren & Mavis Amundson.