St Bartholomew's Church

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• Carrie-Ann Kloss
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  I don't go to the services here or a lot of the activities but I do volunteer inside here with the Coalition for the Homeless nightly from Monday through Friday. Bart's, as some call it, offers a room for the Coalition to serve dinner to the poor Monday night through Friday night at the 51st Street entrance from 5:30-6:30 before the Coalition goes on their 3 routes at night starting at 7pm. The 51st Street entrance is between Lexington and Park Avenues for the dinner program. (On Saturday and Sunday, the Coalition serves outside the church on 51st Street from 5:30pm-7pm unless it's really hot or really cold outside; then they serve inside.) The church also give them food donations that are an overflow from distribution for their different programs.
  
  Aside from sharing a room and leftover/overflowed food donations to the Coalition, this church has breakfast Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday (don't know the schedule for this but clothes are also given out on Saturday I believe after breakfast and all breakfast days have a sit-down or takeout option), a food pantry on Thursday from 10:30am-2pm (registration and an appointment are required but if you come without an appointment, you have to wait until 2pm to receive what is leftover at the pantry), and a nightly shelter for up to around 8 women from a drop-in center in Brooklyn. The entrance for these programs are also on 51st Street between Lexington and Park Avenues.
  
  Note: this is not wheelchair accessible, but for the breakfast and dinner programs, a volunteer can bring out a bag meal to those in a wheelchair.
  
  Once a year this church has a special fundraising event called Fare Share Friday. It happens the day after Thanksgiving and about 500 tickets are available: 250 on sale for $125 each and 250 for poor people to eat at the event free (typically homeless but not always the case). It's a large sit-down, family style meal that sits 10 people a table: 5 who paid and 5 who didn't. There are 2 time slots available: 4pm and 7pm. The set-up is so the poor and the well-to-do (more or less) can mingle and get to know each other, to be on the same level for a time. About 4 hotels provide the full course meal and table service. Proceeds from the event cover the event expenses and to further fund the church's food programs.
  
  Outside of these activities, I don't know much about this church. For more information about the church programs or questions, visit their website (which I don't know) or look for them on Facebook. They have a phone number and email address but I don't know their directory.

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