Contacts
Kim Shaw, Liaison
Roxann Ashworth
Kim Shaw is the current Parish Council liaison for the food ministry and is assisted by Roxann Ashworth. This ministry falls under the Parish Council. If you are interested in participating in any of these ministries, please use our email form to contact Roxann.
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Coffee Hour
As is true in many Orthodox churches, meals are an important part of our Holy Cross family life. Everyone in the parish contributes to this ministry at some point in the year, whether it is by bringing a dish to share at the Parish picnic or the Annual meeting or by being a regular contributor to the meals each Sunday.
Each Sunday we have several families who provide meals so that the entire parish may have lunch and fellowship together after the Divine Liturgy. Some bring an entree and side dish each to feed about 50 people, some bring enough dessert for the entire parish, and others provide salad or juice. Quantities of food and recipe suggestions with pricing comparisons can be found in the recipe section of this page. Currently this ministry rotates so that each person on this list contributes once every 7 weeks.
We are always looking for more volunteers to provide either the entrees, desserts or salads!
On special Feast days, it is our practice to have a simple meal of soup, bread and salad after the Liturgy. Sometimes dessert is provided as well. So we also have a rotation of people who feel they cannot contribute to the Sunday meals but can occasionally offer these meals.
Separate from these lists, is the rotation of people who bake the Prosphora (altar bread) for each Liturgy and the Artoklasia bread when a Litia & Artoklasia is offered at Vespers. The recipes for these breads, as used at Holy Cross, can be found in the Holy Cross Recipe Book.
Resources
Holy Cross Recipe Book (PDF)
by Holy Cross Parishioners
Compiled from the recipes of our parishioners, this booklet contains general fasting instructions, advice and tips, as well as recipes for liturgical foods, starters, soups, main and side dishes and desserts.
Food for Fifty (11th Edition)
by Mary Molt
FOOD FOR FIFTY Eleventh Edition expertly provides readers with "new tools" to meet the ever-changing dining trends and satisfy the expectations of today’s customer.