Women’s Job Corps needs meal providers

The Christian Women’s Job Corps conducts classes in this multi-purpose room at Inside-Out Ministries. The corps needs volunteers to provide meals this semester. (RECORD PHOTO/GREGG PARKER)

MADISON – With a new slate of students, the Christian Women’s Job Corps of Madison County is hoping for community volunteers to help with meals during the spring semester.

“I’m still looking for meal providers for this semester,” site coordinator Susan Elder said. The corps conducts classes at Inside-Out Ministries, located at 103 Gin Oaks Court in downtown Madison.

Elder is pleased and excited to have 12 students this semester. Women can enroll in free classes, including computer skills and personal finances, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays to prepare them to enter the job market.

Elder hopes that residents will volunteer to provide lunch for the 12 students on these dates: Feb. 24; March 3, 10, 11, 17 and 18; April 7, 8, 14, 15, 22, 28 and 29.

Lunch will be served from 11 to 11:30 a.m. “Please provide everything needed to make the lunch complete, including paper goods,” Elder said.

Elder suggests a light, seasonal lunch such as crock-pot soup, bread and cookies; submarine sandwiches and cookies; barbecue-stuffed baked potatoes and dessert; or crock-pot casserole with dessert. Volunteers are asked to also provide beverages.

“Brown bag lunches packed by your group,” are another idea, Elder said. “Maybe a sandwich, cookie, chips and a note of encouragement.”

In addition to weekly meals, “we also have three special events, or Celebration Days, at each site each semester where meals, decorations and servers are needed,” Elder said. A soup or salad bar would work well for these days.

To volunteer to provide meals, visit takethemameal.com/meals.php?t=FYDF3052&v=dd0d77a614.

Officer hours for Christian Women’s Job Corps in Madison are Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information, call 256-886-2280 or visit cwjc.net.