Coastside Lutheran Church partners with Abundant Grace Coastside Worker to provide breakfast every Wednesday and Thursday from our Coastside Community neighbors in need.
Individual volunteers cook and serve nutritious meals which are provided for free to anyone hungry for food or fellowship. HMB community members are invited to participate. The Community Breakfast Program also provides an opportunity for youth to earn community service credits for school. Email: [email protected] or call our office (650-726-9293) for more details.
Individual volunteers cook and serve nutritious meals which are provided for free to anyone hungry for food or fellowship. HMB community members are invited to participate. The Community Breakfast Program also provides an opportunity for youth to earn community service credits for school. Email: [email protected] or call our office (650-726-9293) for more details.
- Who we serve
- Our breakfast guests come from our Half Moon Bay Community. They include unhoused people, seniors, farmworkers and families with children. This weekly breakfast has become a community where people enjoy good food and socialize with each other and our volunteers.
- About the breakfast
- Every Wednesday and Thursday, from 7 – 9 am, volunteers at the Coastside Community breakfast feed from 50 – 100 people.
The Breakfast includes hot, nutritious foods such as scrambled eggs, vegetables, sausage, steel cut oatmeal, pancakes, French toast, coffee, tea and orange juice. We feed our Coastside community neighbors who are hungry for food and fellowship.
If you, or someone you know needs a warm nourishing breakfast, we invite you to join us. Just show up! No questions asked and no strings attached.
- Every Wednesday and Thursday, from 7 – 9 am, volunteers at the Coastside Community breakfast feed from 50 – 100 people.
- Our Volunteers
- Every week, two teams of committed and caring volunteers make the Breakfast happen by shopping, cooking, serving and cleaning up. Our volunteers include members of the Coastside Lutheran Church, other faith communities, the Rotary Club and caring volunteers from the community at large. We are a great group of dedicated people who enjoy each other, enjoy our guests, listen to music while we cook and have fun. Most of all, we are dedicated to helping people who rely on us. We love what we do!
"We love serving breakfast to our guests. We love sending kids to school with a full belly"
- How We Operate
- The Coastside Community Breakfast is a collaboration between Coastside Lutheran Church and Abundant Grace. Coastside Lutheran Church acts as the Breakfast’s fiscal agent. All donations to the Breakfast fund are used solely to support the Breakfast. We use about $20,000 worth of supplies to provide over 7000 meals a year. Some of the food and supplies we use comes from Abundant Grace’s farm program, some is donated, and some is purchased. Funding for the Breakfast comes from grants, individual donations and fundraisers. Because we are 100% run by volunteers who shop, cook and clean, we are able to feed a large number of people in need with a very modest budget. But we need donations to sustain and support this important service.
- How You Can Help
- Donate:
- By check: Make check to Coastside Lutheran Church with “Breakfast” on the memo line. 100% of your donation will support the Coastside Community Breakfast.
- Online: Click the button below that will take you to Giving to CLC and click the yellow donate button and select Community Breakfast from the dropdown menu.
- Donate:
- Sponsor a breakfast:
- Our Coastside Community is a very generous community. In our Breakfast Sponsor program, individuals or community businesses can sponsor a breakfast. Because our breakfast is run 100% volunteers, we are able to optimize the generous contributions of our sponsors. We are grateful for sponsors for a daily, weekly or monthly breakfast. A small donation goes a long way thanks to our volunteers! Email: [email protected] for more details about our Breakfast Sponsor program.
- Volunteer
- We love volunteers! If you are interested in volunteering email: [email protected] to be put in contact with one of our team leads. Our volunteers love what they do. They enjoy interacting with the guests who are so grateful.
- Breakfast Fun Facts
- Every year we crack 1500 – 2000 eggs
- We cook up about 1500 pounds of sausage each year
- One of our volunteers loves to make “Mickey Mouse pancakes” for our kids – complete with ears and raisin eyes and smiles!
- What Our Guests Say
- "Coming here lifts my spirits."
- "I enjoy coming here and seeing the same people who are my friends."
- "I have three boys-bringing them here for breakfast before school is a help to me financially and also sending them to school with a good breakfast. Boys eat a lot."