November’s Special Collection on November 10 will fund our annual efforts for the Emmanuel Dining Room (EDR). This once-a-year collection provides our entire year’s budget of grocery supplies, which will feed lunch to over 200 men, women, and children in Wilmington every month. The annual costs for this program are...

On Sunday, November 10, our Second Sunday Special Collection will support our cooking efforts at Emmanuel Dining Room. First U cooks and serves lunch on the 20th of the month at the Emmanuel Dining Room in Wilmington. Please be generous!

Each month a team from First U prepares and serves a hot lunch to those in need at Emmanuel Dining Room (EDR) in downtown Wilmington. We’ve been doing it for almost 40 years, since they opened in 1979. So the First U kitchen renovations weren’t going to stop us –...

Emmanuel Dining Room is in great need of take-out containers. They prepare meals in containers to give to those folks who may need to take their meals home. So, do our planet a favor by recycling and do our less fortunate neighbors a favor by enabling “take out” from Emmanuel...

So many thanks this month! * To members of our congregation who made donations to our annual EDR efforts both in November and December! Our preliminary total is $1,687.75! We could not be more grateful! * To the December EDR team, including Kate Cowperthwait, Pam Finkelman, Nancy Pinson, Suzanne Proud,...

Thanks to all those who helped make our First U EDR casseroles this month, AND took on the added pumpkin pies challenge! On the 19th, Kate Cowperthwait came in early and cooked the chickens (as she does every month), then Jill Coghlan, Renee Anderson, Sydney Robertson Jimenez, Mimi Moser, and...

Thank you all for your generous support of the Emmanuel Dining Room special collection last week. Our preliminary total was $949! Your gifts will help us continue to prepare our hot lunch each month.

Second Sunday Special Collection – November 11 This month’s special collection is to fund our monthly cooking efforts for Emmanuel Dining Room (EDR). As we move into the month of Thanksgiving, we tend to think of a holiday table brimming with wonderful foods that are part of our family traditions....

This month’s special collection is to fund our monthly cooking efforts for Emmanuel Dining Room (EDR). As we move into the month of Thanksgiving, we tend to think of a holiday table brimming with wonderful foods that are part of our family traditions. However, not everyone is as fortunate to...