Hotel St. Dunstan's

Hotel St. Dunstan’s has wrapped up its first week! We began the week with two homeless families staying with us. When they arrived, our guests were shown their room, paneled with shoji-screen treatment on the windows. Thank you Ginny for this brilliant, economical, real-simple solution. Sunday supper was prepared and served by an effort representing three parishes: Holy Innocents, St. Dunstan's, and St. Luke's . We hosts joined our guests at the table for Sunday dinner.

When I was growing up, the Sunday dinner was traditionally held at my grandparents' house and all the cousins, aunts, uncles gathered for a family meal. I felt reminiscent of the family gathering.
One overnight host shared, "It was WONDERFUL to see these families here and hear little children laughing in our parish hall.  A great first night!"

One mom works as an LPN. The other mom started a job this past Tuesday. The dads have an opportunity to go to the Family Promise Day Center at St. Luke's Presbyterian to look for work and update their resume.

As Tricia summed it up, "The week has gone very smoothly, mostly thanks to the incredible work of our coordinators, and to the many of you who have volunteered to organize, set up and take down, cook, serve food, and spend the night. Everyone I’ve talked to who has been involved has said it has been a great experience. We’ll have the opportunity to do it again in May. This is, indeed, holy work. Thank  you to all who have been involved."