MONDAY NIGHTS
Rain or shine, People Loving Nashville comes to reach out to the poor. We’ve never missed a Monday in since January of 2009, and those that join us downtown have come to depend on our presence each week. Some of our guests are just passing through, but many of them are our friends and part of our community.
Each Monday night, volunteers of varying ages and backgrounds gather at PLN's kitchen in East Nashville to assemble 200+ meals in to-go cartons for transport to War Memorial Plaza downtown.
Volunteers arrive the PLN kitchen to prep the food, assemble the meals and help clean up. There is also a handful of volunteers that team up to organize clothing by size and gender for the donation table.
Once the meals are packed in our trusty white cargo van, we take a few minutes to divvy out tasks, encourage each other with scripture and pray together. Then we pile into cars and caravan over to War Memorial Plaza where our homeless friends are already forming lines for dinner and donations.
When the volunteers arrive downtown, we hustle to unload the meals, tables, boxes of donations and other materials so we can get everything set up. Once everything is ready to be served, a prayer is said and the meals and clothes are distributed. Depending on the week, you may see an extra donation table with women’s feminine products or group of kids huddling around coloring books and crayons. Anything can happen and anything is possible!
After the evening wraps up, any leftover meals are dropped off at a local shelter and willing volunteers meet back up at the kitchen to wash leftover dishes and close up shop for the night.
We are humbled to have the opportunity to serve our friends every week.
Rain or shine, People Loving Nashville comes to reach out to the poor. We’ve never missed a Monday in since January of 2009, and those that join us downtown have come to depend on our presence each week. Some of our guests are just passing through, but many of them are our friends and part of our community.
Each Monday night, volunteers of varying ages and backgrounds gather at PLN's kitchen in East Nashville to assemble 200+ meals in to-go cartons for transport to War Memorial Plaza downtown.
Volunteers arrive the PLN kitchen to prep the food, assemble the meals and help clean up. There is also a handful of volunteers that team up to organize clothing by size and gender for the donation table.
Once the meals are packed in our trusty white cargo van, we take a few minutes to divvy out tasks, encourage each other with scripture and pray together. Then we pile into cars and caravan over to War Memorial Plaza where our homeless friends are already forming lines for dinner and donations.
When the volunteers arrive downtown, we hustle to unload the meals, tables, boxes of donations and other materials so we can get everything set up. Once everything is ready to be served, a prayer is said and the meals and clothes are distributed. Depending on the week, you may see an extra donation table with women’s feminine products or group of kids huddling around coloring books and crayons. Anything can happen and anything is possible!
After the evening wraps up, any leftover meals are dropped off at a local shelter and willing volunteers meet back up at the kitchen to wash leftover dishes and close up shop for the night.
We are humbled to have the opportunity to serve our friends every week.