We Are thrilled you plan to join us!
DUE TO THE COVID CRISIS
WE HAVE HAD TO CHANGE OUR PROTOCOLS FOR THE TIME BEING.
WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU INVOLVED! BELOW IS OUR "NORMAL" SCHEDULE.
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Our Monday night gathering is our bedrock of our community outreach. We would love for you to join us in bringing relief and community to those in need in our city. We have several opportunities to volunteer outside of Monday's as well! Email Haley for more info!
See the information below in how to get involved on Mondays!
See the information below in how to get involved on Mondays!
COVID-19 - MONDAY NIGHT SCHEDULE:
If you have been to PLN before and you are unable to come to kitchen by 4:45 please email Haley!
Email Haley@peoplelovingnashville.com if you have any questions!
LOCATIONS:
PLN Kitchen - 522 Russell Street (directions click here)
War Memorial Plaza downtown (directions click here)
- 2:00 - 5:30 Kitchen Hands Only
- 3:00 - 8:30 Kitchen + Downtown
- 6:15 - 8:30 Prep Meeting + Downtown
If you have been to PLN before and you are unable to come to kitchen by 4:45 please email Haley!
Email Haley@peoplelovingnashville.com if you have any questions!
LOCATIONS:
PLN Kitchen - 522 Russell Street (directions click here)
War Memorial Plaza downtown (directions click here)
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WHAT TO EXPECT
Each Monday night, volunteers of varying ages and backgrounds gather at PLN's kitchen in East Nashville to assemble up to 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.
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. We are humbled to have the opportunity to serve our friends every week.
Each Monday night, volunteers of varying ages and backgrounds gather at PLN's kitchen in East Nashville to assemble up to 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.
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. We are humbled to have the opportunity to serve our friends every week.
COVID SAFETY PROTOCOLS
We are constantly monitoring the Covid-19 outbreak and making real-time adjustments for the safety of those we serve as well as the safety of those who come to serve. Please see below for or current response and we ask that you join us in helping protect this community.
1- Anyone experiencing the following we ask to not participate in our gatherings:
- You are awaiting the result of a COVID-19 test
- You have been exposed to anyone in the past 14 weeks who has tested positive for COVID-19 during the past two weeks
People with COVID-19 have had a wide range of symptoms reported – ranging from mild symptoms to severe illness. Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus. People with these symptoms may have COVID-19:
- Fever or chills
- Cough
- Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
- Fatigue
- Muscle or body aches
- Headache
- New loss of taste or smell
- Sore throat
- Congestion or runny nose
- Nausea or vomiting
- Diarrhea
2- If after you participate in any gathering, and develop any symptoms please email us immediately and seek testing. We will want to notify everyone who has participated in that particular gathering anonymously and we will ask that group of people to also seek testing and suggest CDC recommendations on quarantine. If there is a known case of positive Covid-19, that entire group of volunteers will be asked to not return for 14 days.
3-We have drastically cut down on volunteers allowed at our outreaches. This is to limit the possibilities of transmitting the virus while also promoting capabilities of continued social distancing. We have also created a sign up link to be able to communicate and keep track of our volunteers!
4- Masks, gloves and often sanitizing of hands is required. Please do your best to keep 6ft between you and anyone we are serving as well as serving next to. We also require that volunteers not carpool to and from our outreaches unless they are part of the same house-hold. When working with any surface please participate with staff as we sanitize every surface we work on often.
5- If you have/had Covid-19 we ask that you seek rest and full recovery. Please let us know how we ask a community may serve you in this time. We ask that you not return in person as a volunteer until 14 days after your positive test.
We pray that the heart of the precautions is clear. We come to serve and love some of the most vulnerable of our city. We want to do that to the best of our ability. We have sought wisdom from professionals in this field and will continue to sharpen our processes as best as possible. Please allow us grace as we do so, we realize that there are many sacrifices our volunteers make for those we serve, and we honor them. We could not be more grateful for this community. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact us.
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