October 23, 2024: Narayana Seva at My Sister's House

[Kishore Ramachandran]

Dear Amma's Children,
Jai Karunamayi!
Jai Sairam!

On October 23, 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, healthy green salad, dinner rolls, candies, and bananas.

Several of Amma's devotees make this dinner service possible.  Gita Mehrotra, Alexander Balick, Phani Tummala, and Sridaran made monetary contributions towards the dinner service and many others have been making recurring monthly contributions to enable us to do this important community service. Carol made everyone's favorite Mac&Cheese and delivered it to the shelter; Sundray (with some supplies provided partly by Devi) and Anu made the amazing veggie pasta; Vasanthi and Kishore made the veggie 3-bean chili; a devotee provided the bananas; Kishore bought the other supplies, and collected the food and brought them to the shelter.  

It was in-person service this month as this will be the norm going forward.  Anu, Anjali, Vasanthi, Shanmugam, another devotee, and I were on hand at the shelter to serve the hot dinner to the residents and the children.  It was a great dinner service and having all the help made it possible to keep the line 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 all the food that was made with so much love by Amma's devotees.  We served them seconds and thirds until we ran out of food!!
     
Enjoy the pictures!  

Cooking
Mac&Cheese

Chili

Dinner spread







Service





Hanuman


Jai Karunamayi!
Jai Sairam!
Kishore