St Basil’s Community Kitchen
We believe that pure and undefiled religion is to help orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world (James 1:27). We are called to help the fatherless, the widow, the sick, the needy, and the helpless. Our place is to serve mankind by meeting physical and spiritual needs. St. Basil’s Community Kitchen’s goal is to do just that.
Our Organization
In the past, kitchens were places where someone who loved you was working for the good of the family. Do you have any warm kitchen memories? Grandma’s kitchen or Mom’s kitchen--a place where someone is lovingly, sacrificially preparing something to meet your needs. A place where you can sit and talk. A place where you are welcomed.
Today, many people have no such place. Many people spend their time alone. Many people have no meal cooked with love. We want to help provide such a place and such meals right here in Monett.
We are not open yet.
Our goal was to have St. Basil’s Community Kitchen open by Christmas December 25th, 2023, but our contractors were not able to finish the things necessary to have functioning in time.
The kitchen is quite a ways from being completed but we have the electricity being worked on and the plumbing, moving slowly towards the goal.
Please support us in our effort to get St. Basil’s up and running. Spread word of the project! Pray! Donate!
A Community Kitchen is a hybrid of the well known soup kitchen
St. Basil’s Community Kitchen will focus on those who are struggling with loneliness and with feelings of isolation. It will be a place where those who are struggling with fear and confusion can go for a meal, find peace, and quiet.
What is a Community Kitchen?
Who is Saint Basil?
Saint Basil the Great was a righteous bishop in Caesarea in the 4th Century. He was a devoted shepherd of his Spiritual flock and a compassionate father to each one of his faithful.
With a concern for the poor that knew no bounds, he carried forward the construction, just outside Caesarea, of the 'city of charity', an extensive benevolent institution which he had planned and initiated when he was still a priest. Later known as Basiliad, it consisted of hospices, hospitals, a leprosarium, a school and other buildings, grouped around a church.