Written by Tom Armstrong
Nov. 16, 2016
This evening I went to one of the Community Meals that Trinity Cathedral has on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 5th (if there is a fifth) Wednesday of every month.
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| A line forms for the meal at Trinity Cathedral. [Click photo to enlarge.] |
It has been a long time since I last went to one of the
church’s evening meals. It’s been, perhaps, a couple years since I last went.
And a year before that was the second-most-recent time that I dined with the
guys at Trinity.
Tonight, there was just one homeless guy that I knew in the
large room that serves as the dining hall, but I recognized about a half-dozen
others – men and women – whose faces were mildly familiar.
The meal for the evening involved traditional breakfast
items: Scrambled eggs; cut up hot potatoes with veggies; sausages; small bread
buns with butter and jelly; and fruit cups. For desert there was strawberry
cake.
It was all very tasty and quite pleasant.
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| I wanted to post a picture of what all all I had to eat, but I forgot to take the photo until I was halfway through my meal. |
I took a rough census of the gender make-up of the homeless
crowd, counting nine women and twenty-eight men. I’m told there is a higher
percentage of solo women in the Sacramento homeless population (and in the LosAngeles homeless population and in the San Francisco homeless population) than
there has been in previous years. My head count was too small to be meaningful,
but would seem to confirm the female increase.
The Trinity Church volunteers and staff were all very kind;
very nice; and fully appropriate in how they conducted themselves while
performing their duties. Hooray staff and volunteers; you rock!
A good time was had by all of us stomach-filling guests at
the meal!
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