Monday, September 05, 2005 (CST) - Operation Compassion: Food Handling Training location: Second Baptist Church (6400 Woodway)
Our combined task will be to prepare, serve and clean up 75,000 meals per day ... State law requires that every volunteer must be trained (2 hours) in food handling. Training dates are as follows: Saturday September 3 @ 9 a.m. Sunday September 4 @ 2 p.m. Monday, September 5 @ 1 p.m.
Read full letter from the Bishop here
Operation Compassion has been born through the combined efforts of all these religious leaders. Our combined task will be to prepare, serve and clean up 75,000 meals per day. It will require 240 trained volunteers per meal. The cost is approximately $1,000,000 per week. Each faith group is being asked to provide two things: people and money.
I have committed the United Methodists to underwrite $1,000,000 for Operation Compassion and provide 240 volunteers for each meal for seven days. Our week is Sept. 14-20, 2005. We will be joined by the Hindu faith community and African American evangelicals.
Here is our plan for organizing our people. Each of the five Houston districts will be responsible for one day. In addition, two churches will pick up a day each. The schedule looks like this:Wednesday, September 14 Houston SouthThursday, September 15 Houston EastFriday, September 16 Houston NorthwestSaturday, September 17 St. Luke UMCSunday, September 18 Windsor VillageMonday, September 19 Houston SouthwestTuesday, September 20 Houston North
State law requires that every volunteer must be trained (2 hours) in food handling. Training dates are as follows:
These training events are all at Second Baptist Church (6400 Woodway).
Other training dates may be scheduled later. However, please try to get as many people trained over the Labor Day Weekend as possible.
We will staff three daily shifts: 4am-10am/ 10am-4pm/4pm-10pm. There will be six feeding trailers with each trailer having a team of 40 volunteers per shift. Each of the trailers will be supervised by 5-6 Disaster Relief members. Each trailer can serve 20,000 meals per day. We are not responsible for meal planning and food purchase. Food service in this way can be provided for about $1.75 per meal.