May 28, 2025: Narayana Seva at My Sister's House
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Kishore Ramachandran
May 29, 2025, 7:52:22 PMMay 29
to Amma's Atlanta Satsang Group, Shirdi Saibaba Temple at SRIM Center
Dear Amma's Children,
Jai Karunamayi!
Jai Sairam!
On May 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. The crowd was a little less than usual, perhaps due to the summer with the schools being out...but the chef took the excess food we brought and served it at the restoration house.
Several of Amma's devotees make this dinner service possible. My PhD student Anirudh Sarma underwrote a lot of the expenses for the dinner service in memory of his late mother whom he lost to covid a few years back. May her soul rest in peace. Many others including Alexander Balick, Phani Tummala, Alok Makam, and Sridaran have been making recurring monthly contributions to enable us to do this important community service. Jaishree and Seema made a lovely colorful salad; Carol made everyone's favorite Mac&Cheese and delivered it to the shelter; Jainee and Sundray (with supplies partly provided by Devi) made the veggie pasta; Vasanthi and Kishore made the veggie 3-bean chili; Hemant bought the bananas; Kishore bought all the other supplies.
It was in-person service this month as this will be the norm going forward. The highlight of the service was that the two ladies who make the pasta without fail each month - Sundray and Jainee - came in person to serve the food to the residents. Arif (Jainee's husband) was there too to serve, who also brought Milano cookies to add more cheer for the residents. We had another volunteer - Rupa - who was also 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.
Enjoy the pictures!
Cooking
Jai Karunamayi!
Jai Sairam!
On May 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. The crowd was a little less than usual, perhaps due to the summer with the schools being out...but the chef took the excess food we brought and served it at the restoration house.
Several of Amma's devotees make this dinner service possible. My PhD student Anirudh Sarma underwrote a lot of the expenses for the dinner service in memory of his late mother whom he lost to covid a few years back. May her soul rest in peace. Many others including Alexander Balick, Phani Tummala, Alok Makam, and Sridaran have been making recurring monthly contributions to enable us to do this important community service. Jaishree and Seema made a lovely colorful salad; Carol made everyone's favorite Mac&Cheese and delivered it to the shelter; Jainee and Sundray (with supplies partly provided by Devi) made the veggie pasta; Vasanthi and Kishore made the veggie 3-bean chili; Hemant bought the bananas; Kishore bought all the other supplies.
It was in-person service this month as this will be the norm going forward. The highlight of the service was that the two ladies who make the pasta without fail each month - Sundray and Jainee - came in person to serve the food to the residents. Arif (Jainee's husband) was there too to serve, who also brought Milano cookies to add more cheer for the residents. We had another volunteer - Rupa - who was also 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.
Enjoy the pictures!
Cooking
Delivery
Service
Service
Arif
Rupa
Amazing Sundray and Jainee
Hanuman
Camille snuck in!!
Jai Karunamayi!
Jai Sairam!
Kishore
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