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 at the Blue House of the Gainesville Catholic Worker. Preparation starts at 9:30am on Wednesdays, with dining from noon-5pm, 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”. We’ll meet several times this semester 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.
Blue House Garden – We have an organic community garden in the Pleasant Street neighborhood where we grow vegetables and fruit for Dorothy’s Cafe, other meals at the GCW and to give away to hungry neighbors, visitors and guests. Garden workdays will be scheduled regularly throughout the semester.
Scripture Study – Tuesdays, 4:30 – 6pm. This semester we’ll be studying the gospel of Luke. Our belief is that the study of scripture is a discipline to root ourselves in our faith narrative, a narrative that critiques and challenges the narratives our society and culture provide us to organize our lives around.
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.
First Thursday Mass/Prayer Service – On the first Thursday of each month, we celebrate a Mass or prayer service at the Blue House, often with our chaplain, Fr. John Phillips, pastor of Holy Faith Catholic Church.
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 peace activism with Pax Christi USA, sustainability and local food security, farmworker advocacy 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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