Kitchen in Progress

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A resting place for our Youth Initiative.

Every week during our youth initiative summer program, we send groups of young people throughout the city, to explore environments that are unfamiliar to them. Our kitchen provides them with a place to eat, rest, and refresh in between their explorations.

Click below to donate. Whether it’s $5 or $50, every donation is a literal piece of this kitchen dream. You can help build community, abundance, and dignity.
Be a part of something great. Let’s build [more than just] a kitchen.

Be a part of something great.

We’re building a kitchen that will create more than just meals.
Find out how you can be a part of building something great in Philadelphia.

Click below to donate. Whether it’s $5 or $50, every donation is a literal piece of this kitchen dream. You can help build community, abundance, and dignity.
Be a part of something great. Let’s build [more than just] a kitchen.

Keep creating.

Here is another sneak peak into artist Alison Dilworth’s creative process as she designs a multi-media mural to celebrate the BSM Kitchen Dream. Check out the participate page to find out more about the art project and how your donation to the kitchen makes you a part of it.

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Check out our new refrigeration system.

Our own Dwayne Grant, Facilities Manager at BSM, shows us some of the early work on our dream kitchen!

Let’s create something.

If you haven’t already heard about the art we are creating with the kitchen project, check out the participate page. If you know Broad Street Ministry, you know we couldn’t pass up an opportunity to create new art …or the opportunity to invite you to be a part of it.

Here is an advanced preview of artist Alison Dilworth’s process as she puts together the design. Check back for more updates on Alison’s design, work, and creative process.

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BSM’s Kitchen- By The Numbers

Over the past six years, the little kitchen that could produced a staggering amount of food for the city of Philadelphia with just 4 burners and 1 oven. How staggering? Take a look:

Over 30,000 plates of food have been served at BSM’s monthly No Barriers Dinner, a gathering place for neighbors who would not normally have the opportunity to dine together. Catered by some of Philadelphia’s leading restaurants, No Barriers Dinner is more than just delicious food and live music, it’s also a catalyst for community building.

The kitchen has energized almost 1,400 Youth Initiative participants from around the world (last summer we went international by welcoming a group from Scotland) as they undertake Christian discipleship in an urban context. In addition to volunteering, participants talk with BSM community members and staff facilitate conversations about structural injustice.

BSM’s weekly Breaking Bread lunch has plated up almost 40,000 plates of restaurant quality food every Thursday. In addition to healthy and tasty meals, Breaking Bread connects those experiencing homelessness with vital social services. Thanks to partnerships with agencies across the city, guests have access to: counseling, veteran assistance, clothing closet, medical professionals, government identification assistance, and domestic abuse support services.

Over 50,000 plates of food have been dished up after BSM’s weekly Sunday worship service. The congregation consists of a wide variety of people, including: students, cynics, veterans, young professionals, retirees, those experiencing homelessness, artists, dreamers, and families who gather together after worship for their daily bread.

For the past four winters, BSM’s kitchen produced over 6,000 meals during the 315 Cafe, a program run in conjunction with The Bethesda Project and The City of Philadelphia’s Office of Supportive Housing. The 315 Cafe is an overnight drop-in center for those who are typically understood to be “shelter-resistant”: those dealing with the myriad of obstacles related to mental illness, addiction, and chronic homelessness.

Just imagine what BSM is going to do with a brand new kitchen!