Dear Amma's Children,
Jai Karunamayi!
Jai Sairam!
On January 28, with the grace and blessing of Amma, we had our monthly Narayana Seva at My Sister's House on Howell Mill Road, Atlanta, a shelter serving women and children, and the restoration house.
We prepared meals to serve about 350 women and children who live in these two shelters. The dinner consisted of vegetarian chili, delicious vegetarian pasta, macaroni and cheese for the kids (actually adults cannot resist the temptation as well), healthy green salad, dinner rolls, bananas, and candies.
Several of Amma's devotees make this dinner service possible. Sai Devdutta, Alexander Balick, Phani Tummala, Alok Makam, Vinoda Makam, Purna Chadalawada and Sridaran have been making recurring monthly contributions to enable us to do this important community service. Seema Jaishree made a lovely colorful salad (with delivery help from Anup); Carol and Hemant made everyone's favorite Mac&Cheese; Jainee and Sundray (with supplies partly provided by Devi) made the veggie pasta; Hemant bought the bananas; Vasanthi and Kishore made the veggie 3-bean chili; Kishore bought all the supplies.
It was in-person service this month as this will be the norm going forward. Vasanthi, Hemant and Kishore were on hand at the shelter to serve the hot dinner to the residents and the children; they were short handed but Courtney (a volunteer) and Howard (one of the managers of the kitchen) helped us to keep the lines moving. It is a tight time window for serving two batches of back-to-back dinner service (one for the adult women, and one for the mother and children). So at least 5 people are needed to make the service swift and efficient. The residents loved the hot food in the cold weather that was made with so much love by Amma's devotees.
Enjoy the pictures!
Cooking
