Coffee Hour

Equal Exchange coffee is now being served during Coffee Hour at All Saints’ Church. Equal Exchange is a worker-owned co-op of small farmers in Latin America, Africa and Asia. By avoiding expensive creditors, brokers, distributors, retailers and other middlemen, these small farming communities retain more of the financial resources they need to provide for their families.

Each week a family or individual in the Parish hosts Coffee Hour. A comprehensive hosting procedure, map of kitchen supplies, and suggested Parish Hall layout is available below or on the Parish Hall Kitchen bulletin board. We invite you to signing up to host a Coffee Hour after the 10:00 AM, Sunday service. The schedule for the entire year is on the bulletin board. Reminder: snacks are completely optional; all supplies, including animal crackers for the kids, are consistently stocked in the kitchen.

If you have questions, please contact our Coffee Hour Coordinator.

Proceduress for Hosting Coffee Hour

Before You Come to Church

Making snacks for the grown-ups is completely optional! If you would like to bring something, you can usually count on about 50-70 servings. All other supplies (including animal crackers for the kiddies) are provided by coffee hour donations!

Before the 10:00 AM, Sunday Service

Note: You'll want to consult the Parish Hall and Kitchen layouts for guidance on what goes where.

  1. Use Wall-Mounted Water Purifier to fill percolators to appropriate water fill line. Then install coffee baskets and dump Regular Coffee or Decaf Coffee into baskets. If there are no coffee envelopes in the drawers, use the pre-measured coffee in the freezer.

    Type of Coffee Amount of Water Envelopes of Coffee
    Regular 40 cups 5
    Decaf 26 cups 3

    Push the coffee cart into the church hall & plug into wall (coffee takes about 1 hour to brew).

  2. Load coffee cart #2 with the donation basket, cups, sugar, sweetener, and stirrers. Leave the cream in the refrigerator until coffee hour starts. Position cart #2 as shown.
  3. Set up 3 tables with plastic table covers as shown. Set out 1 or 2 trash cans with trash bags.
  4. Make 2 or 3 pitchers of apple juice (can thaw during church service). Set out kid’s juice cups, animal crackers on table #2
  5. If you brought snacks for the grown-ups, set these out with napkins on table #1

During Coffee Hour

  1. Set out kid’s juice and keep cups full.
  2. Set out cream on coffee cart #2 and keep full.
  3. Smile and enjoy the great company & warm thanks!
  4. About 15-20 minutes after coffee hour starts, bring money from donation basket to the money counters, who will typically be in the Parish Office or one of the class rooms.

After Coffee Hour

  1. Wash out percolators. Coffee grinds can go either in trash cans or in garbage disposal in sink closest to refrigerator.
  2. Wipe off table covers & put back in cabinet.
  3. Wash out cream server and put away leftover supplies.

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