Feasting with Friends

COVID-19 Update: Feasting with Friends is temporarily suspended to redirect efforts towards food sourcing for our partners/neighbors and to the Lake Lunches Program and Food Pantry. We have adapted our volunteer efforts to allow for physical distancing for volunteers while serving.

Feasting with Friends is a food ministry of Lake Merritt United Methodist Church in partnership with the Housing Consortium of the East Bay. Through this program, we prepare a hot meal for 40 people. Meal is prepared with a small team of people at LMUMC kitchen and then delivered to the Lake Merritt Community Cabins where meals are shared with those sheltered and unsheltered. 

In kind donations to the programs are always welcome: hygiene kit supplies, lunch/dinner supplies, socks, t-shirts, warm wear, store/grocery gift cards etc.

Food and resources are made possible through the Alameda County Community Food Bank and fundsraised by Lake Merritt United Methodist Church at annual events like the LIFT Concert. Due to the emerging COVID-19 spread, we postponed the concert and are now instead focusing our efforts on raising funds through GoFundMe campaign. Please consider donating and spreading the word as we continue our work at this time.