The following are our regular, ongoing projects. For details on this week’s schedule, go here.
Breakfast Brigade - A free, healthy, homemade breakfast served to day-laborers, many who are homeless, each Friday. We meet at 4:15am to bake homemade cinnamon-raisin bread, boil eggs, and prepare fresh, local fruit; then serve between 5:45 and 6:30 am at three area labor pools on the eastside of Gainesville. Breakfast Brigade happens on Friday mornings. Commit to being a regular for the semester, or come whenever you are able!
Dorothy’s Cafe - A simple, free, healthy, home-cooked meal every Wednesday and the first and third Sundays at the Jubilee House of the Gainesville Catholic Worker. Preparation starts at 9:30am on Wednesdays (11am on Sundays) with dining from noon-5pm on Wednesdays (1-5pm on Sundays), and clean-up ongoing. We welcome groups to sponsor a cafe (provide food and volunteers) on a regular basis – once a week, once a month, once a semester, etc., – or come to just lend a hand for any time between 9:30am and 6pm (free food included!). Regular volunteers who can commit for the semester are especially helpful!
Blue House Pants Project – Refashioning used fabric, bedding, and clothes into new pants! We will be selling these items once we have a nice inventory, and the proceeds will go toward the Gainesville Catholic Worker’s “Blue House” (aka Jubilee House). We meet twice a month to teach and learn the necessary sewing and construction skills. Click the link for more info.
Ongoing hospitality at the House, including: overnight guests, sharing meals, entertainment like movie nights and Gator football games on the TV, mail pick-up and more. We also provide a safe place to stay overnight during times of extreme weather (storms, cold, etc.)
Community Gardening – After gardening with students at a local school for the past several years, we began a community garden in the fall of 2008 in the Pleasant Street Neighborhood at the Rosa B. Williams Community Center, working with kids in the neighborhood and others interested in growing and harvesting organic produce. We’ll start spring planting in February. Check back here for more information in the coming weeks.
Scripture Study – Tuesdays, 2:30 – 4pm.
Roundtable Discussion and Pot-Luck – An exercise in clarification of thought, we’ll tackle various issues political, cultural, religious and otherwise over a delicious meal each Thursday at 6pm. Bring something to share if you can; if you can’t, just come anyway.
Morning Prayer – Monday and Friday mornings, 7:30-8am.
The Metanoia Semester – An opportunity to live and work in an intentional, faith-based community, to discern one’s vocation in life, to stand in solidarity with people who are marginalized, and to deepen one’s social justice experience on a first-hand basis… [click on the link for more information].
Individually, community members are involved in migrant worker ministry, advocacy for the homeless, peace activism, anti-death penalty work and more.
We welcome volunteers - whether for a one-time visit or a regular commitment. For more information, call or email us or stop by the house anytime – 352-371-4695 or gvillecw(at)yahoo(dot)com; 218 NW 2nd Ave, Gainesville, FL 32601
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