What's cooking this week?

Dear friends of SouthWest Kitchens!

 What's cooking this week?

 TUESDAY, 5-6 pm

Easy Peasy Recipes: cooking workshop for the 10-12 yr-olds.

This week, we roll energy balls!

Contribution: $5

 WEDNESDAY

9-12:30 am

Community cooking workshop: a small group of volunteers cooks healthy foods that profit the community. This week, we make competition lasagna from scratch (yes, that includes the pasta) and lemon curd. Raise your hand up high to be part of the team!

 5-7 pm

Teen Cuisine: cooking workshop for teens 13+.

This week, we are lending a helpful hand to a group of anglophone teens in the preparation of a monthly school spaghetti supper. We are making the bread dough, the garlic butter and the dessert.

Contribution: $5

 THURSDAY

1-2:30 pm

GUSTO Project: cooking workshop for seniors 65+.

This project, presented by a team of researchers of Concordia University (amongst others), aims at helping seniors finding strategies to go on cooking despite physical limitations. During this first workshop of the serie, participants will familiarize with the kitchen and plan their menus for the coming weeks.

Free activity, registration needed!

 5:30-8:30 pm

One easy recipe at the time: cooking workshop presented by Un plant de tomate à la fois. Every week, we explore cooking with a seasonal ingredient. This week, we cook with leeks: flamiche picarde, a leek tart from North of France, poireaux-vinaigrette, a French brasserie classic, and lee--parmesan bites, another amazing recipe by our one and only Josée di Stasio.

Contribution: $5

Registration: plant.de.tomate@gmail.com

Want to join the fun? Need extra info?

Call me, or write to me!

 Léonore Pion

Community cook

Kitchen coordinator, SouthWest Mission

leonore.pion@gmail.com | 514 544-5264

Facebook: SouthWest Kitchens / Les cuisines du Sud-Ouest

En cuisine cette semaine

Chers amis de la cuisine de la Mission!

 Qu'est-ce qu'on fait cette semaine?

 MARDI, de 17 h à 18 h

Les recettes vite faites: atelier de cuisine pour les 10-12 ans. Cette semaine, on roule des boules énergie.

Participation: 5$

 MERCREDI

De 9 h à 12 h 30

Atelier de cuisine communautaire: avec une petite équipe de bénévoles, on produit de bons petits plats dont on fait profiter la communauté.

Cette semaine, on fait de la lasagne de compétition (avec de pâte maison, bien sûr) et de la crème de citron (lemon curd). 

Faites-moi signe si vous voulez faire partie de l'équipe!

Activité gratuite.

De 17 h à 19 h

TeenCuisine: atelier de cuisine pour les 13 ans et plus.

Cette semaine, on prête main forte à un groupe de jeunes bénévoles des écoles anglophones de Verdun dans la préparation d'un souper-spaghetti. Nous ferons la pâte à pain, le beurre à l'ail et le dessert.

Participation: 5$

JEUDI

De 13 h à 14 h 30

Projet GUSTO: atelier de cuisine pour les 65 ans et plus.

Cette initiative, menée entre autres par un groupe de recherche de l'Université Concordia, a pour but d'aider les aînés à trouver des stratégies d'adaptation en cuisine afin de cuisiner malgré l'apparition de limitations fonctionnelles. Durant ce premier atelier de la série, les participants se familiariseront avec le fonctionnement de la cuisine et commenceront à planifier leurs menus pour les prochaines séances.

Activité gratuite, sur inscription seulement.

De 17 h 30 à 20 h 30

Une recette santé à la fois: atelier de cuisine proposé par Un plant de tomate à la fois. L'ingrédient-vedette de la semaine: le poireau. La merveilleuse Lauren, qui animera l'atelier, vous propose trois recettes: une flamiche picarde (une tarte aux poireaux, spécialité du Nord de la France), des poireaux-vinaigrette (encore une spécialité française) et enfin une recette de notre Josée Di Stasio nationale: les bouchées poireau-parmesan.

Participation: 5$

Inscription: plant.de.tomate@gmail.com

Envie de participer à l'une ou l'autre de ces activités?

Besoin de renseignements?

Appelez-moi! Écrivez-moi!

Léonore Pion

Cuisinière communautaire

Coordonnatrice des activités de cuisine, Mission du Sud-Ouest

leonore.pion@gmail.com | 514 544-5264

Facebook: SouthWest Kitchens / Les cuisines du Sud-Ouest

Thanksgiving/ Action de grâces 2017

This is what God wants from you in your life in union with Jesus Christ. Be joyful always, pray at all times, be thankful in all circumstances.’ (1 Thessalonians 5: 16-17).

‘As we gather around the Lord’s Table this Worldwide Communion Sunday we are holding in our hearts brothers and sisters from around the world. Many of them are unknown to us but part of the same Human and Christian Family. We continue giving thanks in the varied circumstances we find ourselves, those which bring joy and those which bring pain.

Thank-you for your ongoing support of the work and ministry of SouthWest. Your faithfulness enables us to bless so many. Thank-you for the gifts of fridges, volunteer hours, cooking, prayer shawls, sponsorship of a breakfast club family and the prayers that sustain our community. We are generous with others as God has blessed us.

Many give a special offering at this Harvest time of year, there are envelopes available if helpful.

I sing this hymn of thanks.

Je chante l’Action de Grâces…

Now thank we all our God, with heart, and hands, and voices, who wondrous things has done, in whom this world rejoices, who from our mother’s arms has blessed us on our way

with countless gifts of love, and still is ours today!” (VU 236)

Loué soit notre Dieu! Que notre vie entière

Tous nous vivions joyeux sous le regard du Père.

Qu’il nous tienne en sa grâce et nous guide toujours,Nous garde du malheur par son unique amour. (NVU 34)

Rev. David

Community resource

With the support of the Anglo Family Council and SouthWest Mission, Action Prévention Verdun received subsidies this year for a new outreach worker with anglophones and allophones seniors. Corinne Martin-Valois is now a new resource contact for the seniors living in Verdun and Nuns’ Island. She provides support and help for seniors who speak english and spanish such as food bank referral, medical appointments, housing research and friendly visits. She could also refer elders of the community to the organizations of the neighborhood depending on their needs. You can find her at the church, in food banks, in cafes and walking on the streets.

You can also call her for an appointment at 438-406-8533 or email her at Corinne.aines@actionpreventionverdun.org.

Hymn Book Dedications

We are entering the season of remembering. This Sunday at church, we will dedicate over 40 large print More Voices hymnbooks paid for by individuals in memory of loved ones. Thank you to those who responded so generously to the call:

-      Mary Krul, in memory of her husband Stanley

-      Shirley Mitchell in memory of loved ones

-      Shirley McGowan, Brenda and Brandon, Linda, Allison and Adam, in memory of Mother and Grandmother Isabella McGowan

-      Lil Jones in memory of loved ones

-      Vernon Turner and family in memory of Shirley Turner

-      Doug and Francine Hastie in memory of his mother Peggy Hastie

-      Alex (Sandy) MacKenzie and family in memory of Shirley MacKenzie*

-      Joyce Crandall in memory of her parents Shirley and James Crandall

-      Shirley Stark in memory of Shirley MacKenzie

-      Judy Pepe in memory of loved ones

-      Catherine Cater, to a loved one

*Hymn books from the MacKenzie family will be dedicated during the service in two weeks, on Sunday Oct. 15th

A community is the people in it

We are blessed with volunteers and donations from near and far, often from folks who are not visible at church or Mission but still feel they are part of us. They offer their time, talents and prayers that help to warm the hearts of others who need uplifting and feel the warmth ourselves with gratitude and a smile.  Thank-you Rita and Danny for your gifts of hand-knitted prayer shawls; Mark for your muscles, time and truck....and others.

On a hot Sunday, September 24th, Meet n Mix/ Meli Melo (formerly known as Messy Church) was all that but in a somewhat orderly way!!! We celebrated and shared as a community led by Judith and Jacques and Rev. David.

Sandra and Sue and their packing team swept the clothing room and coordinated a clothing swap. Several folks and families benefited from swapping and shopping and spicing up their wardrobe for the season(s) ahead.

Kitchen crew served up a delicious chicken casserole, macaroni salad, apple tart, cookies and of course corn on the cob. Thank you to Dennis, Dorothy, Shirley Mc, Maurice, Sheila, Frank, Kathy, Shirley M, Rev. David for taking time on Saturday morning to shuck corn.

Baby Lucilla Faith Netta Pion was welcomed for the first time at the Mission on Sunday with an impromptu baby shower. Lucilla is the daughter of Frances and Brian. Little sister to Alexis, Alex and Skyler.

Darlene

This week in Southwest Kitchens

(le français suivra)

 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

Every second WEDNESDAY morning: 2 or 3 cooks for the preparation of the community meal, served at 12:30. (next Welcome lunch October 11).

ALSO, Every week, For the YOUNG: 

Easy Peasy Recipe, Tuesdays 5-6 pm, 10-12 yr-olds. This week we made pasta salad, with veggies and real homemade mayo. 

TeenCuisine, Wednesdays 5-7 pm, age 13+. 

Contact SouthWest Kitchen Coordinator for all of the above:

leonore.pion@gmail.com | 514 544-5264

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BÉNÉVOLES RECHERCHÉS! 

Un Mercredi sur deux: 2 ou 3 cuistots bénévoles pour la Dream Team Cuisine en charge de la préparation du repas communautaire, que nous servons à 12 h 30. (prochaine date 11 octobre)

Toutes les semaines :

POUR LES JEUNES:

Les recettes vite faites, le mardi soir de 17 h à 18 h, atelier de cuisine pour les 10-12 ans;

TeenCuisine, le mercredi de 17 h à 19 h. pour les 13 ans et plus. Ce mardi, on a fait une salade de pâtes aux légumes avec de la vraie mayo maison. 

POUR TOUS LES AUTRES: Une recette santé à la fois, les jeudi soir de 17 h 30 à 20 h 30. Atelier proposé par Un plant de tomate à la fois. Participation: 5$. Merci de vous inscrire auprès d'Un plant de tomate: plant.de.tomate@gmail.com

Léonore Pion

Cuisinière communautaire

Coordonnatrice des activités de cuisine, Mission du Sud-Ouest

leonore.pion@gmail.com | 514 544-5264

From the Kitchen

Baking supplies

Certain pantry staples we use a lot of at the Mission: flour, sugar, oil, oats, etc. Because we know there will be no waste, we are able to buy them in bulk, which makes them considerably cheaper. One kilo of flour costs us as little as $1. A pretty good deal, right?

We would like you to make the most of these special prices too!

You can now pre-order flour and sugar (organic cane sugar, better for your body than the usual refined white sugar) at the same time as fresh fruit and veg from mini-market: check out the order sheet!

What other items could the Mission supply? Fresh yeast, baking powder, corn starch? Tell us, and we will try and source those products for you at the lowest possible price.

 Dishcloths wanted!

More and more kitchen activities are going on at the Mission, and we often run low on clean dishcloths and rags. If you have any at home you don't use, we would be happy to provide them with an opportunity to serve the community: we will gracefully accept your donation :)

Also needed are small Mason jars (125 ml to 500 ml), and the lids to go with them. 

 Léonore

Community Promises

As water will be poured Sunday on Simone Béatrice Gabrielle Major we will add our promises to those of God's Grace and Unconditional Love! 

Son père, Jean-François, sa mère, Geneviève, sa grande soeur Marie-Rose, sa marraine (et grand-mère), Ginette, son parrain (et Oncle), Guillaume, et la communauté SouthWest vont crier à haute voix: 

Bienvenue dans la Famille Chrétienne! Welcome to the Christian Family! 

Husking corn on Saturday morning so that we can be ready to feed those coming to Community Celebration Sunday (we call it Meet ‘n’ Mix/ Méli-mélo) is also about our promises. (See the invitation further down) It symbolizes that what we say at the baptismal font needs follow-up in practical hospitality. 

Promises are lived out in the everyday with concrete actions flavouring relationships: As we welcome all into the circle, As we swap clothes Sunday, As we sing together with joy, As we pour water on Simone...

Here's a prayer that can be sung during our actions as keepers of promises:

Draw the circle wide.

Draw it wider still.

Let this be our song, no one stands alone,

Standing side by side,

Draw the circle wide. 

(More Voices 145, Gordon Light)

Traçons un grand cercle.

Traçons le plus grand.

C’est notre seul chant,

Nul n’est solitaire,

Debout solidaires,

Traçons un grand cercle.

As community living out promises we shout: Alléluia!!

Rev. David 

It Could Happen to You!

Last year at this time, my partner bought two raffle tickets from Dawson Boys & Girls Club. One of them was the winner. The prize? Round-trip airfare for two to anywhere WestJet flies. We chose London and spent an unforgettable 10 days there last spring.

Lucky for you, Dawson is offering the same thing this year. Tickets have just gone on sale for a December 9th drawing. A $20 raffle ticket could win you the trip of a lifetime. And if it's not you, at least you'll know your money has gone to a good cause: supporting all the programs offered right here in Verdun by Dawson Boys & Girls Club.

Contact information is below. Good luck!

Amy

Repaire jeunesse Dawson Boys & Girls Club

666 avenue Woodland

Verdun, QCH4H 1V8

Renseignements / Info. 514-767-9967 #230