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The Dish

For the past eight years St. John’s Uniting Church Wahroonga has been operating a soup van “The Dish” in Hornsby, each week serving a nourishing three course meal to those who come. It began with soup and now we have an average of a dozen folk who come to share a meal with us.

Fresh fruit and vegetables and bread rolls are donated by local businesses and meals are prepared by members of the Church and wider community. The Dish is a broad ecumenical effort with volunteers from other Churches in the area, including Waitara Adventist, Hornsby Uniting, Cathedral of Our Lady, Waitara, Bobbin Head Anglican Church, Bible Study groups, Turramurra Uniting Church, Thornleigh Chinese and Australian Baptist Church and Thornleigh Community Baptist Church.

In October 2011 the Dish expanded to a second evening, thanks to a great cooperative effort by a number of local schools. The Dish is now regularly supported by members of the Prouille, St. Leo’s, Wahroonga Preparatory School, St. Lucy’s, Abbotsleigh, St. Edmund’s, and Knox Prep. communities.

For more information, email dish@stjohnswahroonga.org.

Recent Dish News

Christmas at the Dish

Lots of activities at St. John’s stop over the summer, but the need for the fellowship and food provided by the Dish doesn’t take a break. Alison sent me this report on the great work done by so many members of the wider community who chose to generously give their time at such a busy time of year…
For our friends at The Dish preparations for Christmas began some time ago.…

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The Dish Christmas

Alison wrote the following piece about Christmas at the Dish, and I thought it should be shared more widely!
Eighteen friends joined us in the Park last evening for our Christmas gathering.
Janet had organised a fabulous Christmas meal of Soup, Turkey, Cranberry sauce, Ham & mustard, roast vegetables, peas, individual Puddings and custard or Mango ice cream – a great thrill for many!…

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The Dish on Tuesdays

It is now over six years that The Dish of St. John’s has been serving, from the back of a Van, a meal to folk at Hornsby who come for the food and the company each week. This month marks a wonderful new step forward in outreach to the needy of Hornsby as the Van now goes out each Tuesday evening, thanks to a collaboration amongst the local schools of Wahroonga.…

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The Dish in the Advocate

Big welcome to anyone who has found our website after reading about The Dish in this weeks’ Hornsby Advocate. If you’d like to find out what you can do to help out with The Dish, please don’t hesitate to get in touch by email or by phoning our Minister, Chris, on 02 9489 1762.…

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