Happy Giving Tuesday! We hope you were able to enjoy a meal with loved ones on Thanksgiving. Here at St. Andrew’s, our breakfast guests enjoyed a wonderful holiday brunch of ham and all of the traditional Thanksgiving side dishes. We are blessed to have a team of volunteers who work together to help those in our community who are struggling. And we are deeply grateful for those of you “behind the scenes” whose financial support keeps the program running. We recently mailed our semi-annual fundraising letter to St. Andrew’s parishioners and other supporters. Some of you may have received it in your mailboxes this week. If not, you can read it below. 

Dear Friends,

We have heard a lot over the past year about how we are divided; how we struggle to find common ground and treat one another with decency. It can feel at times that our society is broken. And yet, the Breakfast Program at St. Andrew’s is a shining example of just the opposite. Every day in the Parish Hall, we come together and work to lift up those who need a hand. We show up for other people, we listen, and we treat one another with kindness and respect. The Breakfast Program shows us what we can accomplish when we join together; it is a reflection of the best in all of us.

As we enter another season of Thanksgiving, I am grateful for the opportunity to lead this program and for the many people who work together to keep it going year after year. In addition to those who serve breakfast, we now have teams who deep clean our commercial kitchen and others who come in to create nutritious meals for our guests. Thanks to their good work, we can serve dishes such as chili, homemade soup, pork chops, chicken and hot vegetables in addition to traditional breakfast foods. We provide choices and better nutrition for our guests, and that makes a difference.

I am also grateful for the countless generous donors who have sustained this program over the years. We are blessed to have support in the form of food donations from Food Gatherers and financial support from other organizations. But as prices rise and the needs in our community increase, we must rely on the generosity of individual donors to balance our budget. We need your help to pay for food and supplies and to maintain all of the equipment in our commercial kitchen. We could not do this work without you.

So if you are able, please consider making a donation to the Breakfast Program this holiday season. Your gift will help us provide meals made with meat, fresh produce and whole grains every morning. Together, we can make a difference in the lives of people right here in our community every single day.

Thank you,

Sue Nishi

Breakfast Director

breakfast@standrewsaa.org

734-664-0518 ext. 206

How Do I Volunteer?

You can sign up for all volunteer shifts on SignUpGenius.

New Volunteers: If you have never volunteered at the Breakfast before and would like to get involved, please email our volunteer coordinator at standrewsbreakfast@gmail.com. She will send you some general information and the links to the SignUpGenius pages. 

Stephanie Morgan-Yapur

For more than 15 years, the Breakfast Program has been blessed to have Stephanie Morgan-Yapur as a dedicated volunteer. Stephanie brings a special energy and joy to the kitchen each morning. She is an amazing cook and is delighted that we are now able to create a greater variety of nutritious meals for our guests. Stephanie says the St. Andrew’s kitchen is her “favorite place in the whole entire world,” and we are all deeply grateful for her dedication to serving her brothers and sisters in need.

Ann Arbor Thrift Shop

Volunteers from the Ann Arbor Thrift Shop recently visited the Breakfast to distribute warm gloves and hats to our guests. They have also supported us for many years with an annual grant that helps us purchase food and maintain all of the equipment in our commercial kitchen. Thank you, Ann Arbor Thrift Shop!

Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan

This fall, the Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan donated 120 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to the Breakfast Program. Many of our guests said they remembered eating Girl Scout cookies years ago, and they were delighted to have them again. We are also working with local scout leaders to create opportunities for scouts to join our volunteer team, and we look forward to a long-term partnership with this organization.

The Breakfast at St. Andrew's

306 N. Division St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Breakfast is served 7:30-8:30 am,

7 days a week, 365 days a year

breakfastatstandrews.org

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