The Eclipse Project: Helping Harrisburg's Homeless

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Est. 12/2020. It all started with a bag of burgers... now we serve approximately 130 people each week.

10/30/2026

Volunteer check in Friday!
Jerry
Me
Bob
Serving both locations: Nancy +9, Emma, Cody
Serving 230-430 Ally, Sam +2
Serving first location: George
Kitchen 10-11 Chris
Kitchen 10a - 2p:
Arleen
Emma
Savannah
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Cleanup: 6p - ?
Marcy
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10/28/2026

Fridays I go to the church and pull donations in and look at what kind of food we have on hand, I make a grocery list, I pull things out from the freezer to thaw in the refrigerator. Saturday I've been going to the WestShore Farmers Market to pick up donations at about 2:00 and then I go to Restaurant Depot, Walmart, sometimes Sam's Club, and Karns to buy the items on my grocery list. Some Saturdays I'm at the church kitchen, sometimes with a volunteer and sometimes alone, until potentially 10:00 p.m. Sunday we start at 10:00 a.m. and I'm there through mopping the kitchen floor at the end of the day at about 8:00. My body is getting older. By the time I get home on Sunday, everything I own hurts. I usually don't eat on Sunday until everyone is served and all the cleanup is done and I'm home. It's a lot of work.
Messages like this from one of our differently sheltered friends makes it all worthwhile.
❤️

10/27/2026

Love Ferris... He not only kept up with the dishes last Sunday morning, but he also scrubbed out the sinks when he was done!

10/26/2026

Awesome day yesterday! The weather was perfect to serve our friends.
Buffalo chicken macaroni and cheese
Shrimp tetrazzini
Lasagna
Pulled pork tater tot casserole
Breakfast casserole with ham, eggs and potatoes
Chicken and egg noodles with sour cream and paprika
Broccoli stuffed chicken over mashed potatoes with gravy
Turkey and gravy
Cheeseburgers and hot dogs
Cheesy hash browns with broccoli
Rigatoni with meatballs
Pasta with vodka sauce and meatballs
Halushki
Tuna salad sandwiches
Coleslaw
Birthday cake and sweets
Twenty pizzas from Aunt Ash
And some other things I probably forgot.

Volunteers this week: Jerry, Bob, Savannah, Aunt Ash, Carol, George, Eric, Kristen, Alexa, Reed, Danielle, and Molly. Some of our friends help us unload and set up and John keeps an eye on the trash and cleans up.

Thank you, Bethany Church of the Nazarene for your kitchen, Country Gourmet at the Market and Panera Bread for your weekly food donations, to Jill and Rachel and Bob who brought prepared food,
to Marci’s At The Market for literally several hundred hamburger buns, and to everyone who made donations this week of bottled water and clothing.

We currently have no blankets, no tents, very few toiletries, and need bottled water on a regular basis! We go through about 120 bottles of water each week. We also could use things like powdered drink mixes, individual size snacks, flour and sugar, styrofoam clamshell ("takeout") containers, coffee cups with lids, cold drink cups, and napkins.

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10/23/2026

Volunteer check-in day.
We get to celebrate two birthdays this weekend!
Who's coming to play?

Jerry all day
Me
Aunt Ash all day
Carol, Savanna prep
Bob, Emma, Eric + 1 prep and serving
Alexa serving
Danielle serving and cleanup..

10/23/2026

Immediate need for this weekend: bottled water. (I'm old and my parts are fragile and these are heavy. Every case dropped off is one less PT session for me.)

10/21/2026

This is just out of control. If I tried to thank everybody who made this past weekend come together, you would get so sick of reading, you might fall asleep.

Sunday we served, among other things, a large shrimp Creole over rice, 5 large lasagnas, 2 gallons of zuppa Toscana, 6 large salads, 2 large sour cream chicken with paprika and egg noodles, 1 large chicken and rice, 2 hashbrown casseroles, a large apple crisp, sandwiches, sweets, coleslaw, two large cottage pies, one large baked spaghetti, two small pierogi casseroles, macaroni and cheese, garlic bread, green beans...

Among so many other volunteers for Terry's celebration of life, we were joined by some gentlemen from The Greenbriar House at Milton Hershey School. Tim showed up with Ferris, AJ, Leon, Donovan, Manny, and Connor. They were polite. They were fun. They either knew what they were doing or they learned really quick! Their follow-through was on point. When they got done with a task, they cleaned up after that task. They can come back to this kitchen any day! It didn't hurt that some of them called me Miss!

Thanks to those who donated prepared food. As always, much appreciation to Bethany Church of the Nazarene, Country Gourmet at the Market, Panera Bread.

If anyone is missing a pair of glasses, please let me know.

10/19/2026

It was a beautiful day to remember our friend, Terry Palmer. Scriptures, speakers, laughter, tears, prayers, and community. We do these things to offer closure for our friends for the friend that we lost. But we also have these celebrations of life so that those of our friends who are left know how special they are and how important their lives are. They are not our clients. They are our friends. Because there's no difference between the people on one side of the table and the people on the other side of the table, we often switch sides. If you look at our serving table, you wouldn't know who is housed and who is differently sheltered. Our friends help us set up and serve every week It's amazing to pull in every Sunday and be welcomed and hugged and hear about what happened to them that week. We were praying for T's brother who was in the hospital with a very high blood sugar and thankfully he was discharged. When I say grace every week, I thank God for the beautiful humans who come out and let us love on them. Thank you to everyone who participated in putting together this celebration of Terry's life. God bless. And Terry, I had a can of Pepsi in your memory.

10/19/2026

If anyone found a Subaru key fob at Terry's Memorial service yesterday, please let me know. I know who it belongs to.
Photo of Officer Loki for attention.

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