Newtown Meeting’s Simple Supper Goes Virtual
Newtown Meeting Kids Raise Money for the Pennsylvania SPCA
On November 6th Newtown Quaker Meeting’s children and teens hosted a Virtual Simple Supper at the meetinghouse to raise funds for their selected charity and raised $1,552 for the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PSPCA).
In lieu of prices for the soups and desserts available for the Virtual Simple Supper, purchasers were asked to make donations when they picked up their orders.
Lisa Li of West Windsor, NJ, head of the children’s Simple Supper Committee, said, "The children and teens of our meeting worked together beautifully, packaging and offering in the Meetinghouse parking lot exotic soups like West African Peanut Soup and Cajun Corn Chowder as well as traditional Broccoli Cheddar soup and others, and collecting donations for their charity of choice this year.”
Li said there were also many home-made desserts including brownies, cherry pie, trifecta bars, carrot cake, pecan pie, coconut cake, and more.
Everything was packed in compostable containers. Masks and social distancing were required during preparation and pick-up.
Lisa Li was assisted by Sharon Hulihan of Newtown who re-conceptualized Simple Supper from the usual in-person and indoors event to an in-person only for food pick-up, with virtual socializing and fellowship hybrid event. “Sharon was spectacular,” said Li. “She is brilliantly well-organized and arranged for drop-offs by volunteer providers of soups and desserts, pre-ordering for buyers, and ensured social distancing and mask wearing for pick-up. Everything went off without a hitch.”
Newtown Meeting’s Children’s Religious Education program has been raising money through an annual Simple Supper for over ten years. Previous recipients of the funds raised at Simple Supper include Heifer International, Habitat for Humanity, Philadelphia Diaper Bank, and Mercer Street Friends.