After being postponed for the free breakfast last week, due to weather and lack of location, we set out determined to serve yesterday morning. We were able to find a small park that does not charge for parking and is a little off the beaten path that would work perfectly. So, we made up a few small flyers (the size of large business cards) and hunted homeless people down on friday in the neighborhood of the park to give the flyers away. We did not want to be over run and end up running out of food, so we only gave out a few
invitations and told those people to tell their friends.
I said before we set up that if one person shows up, I would consider it a success. We served for one hour from 8am to 9am and had six people show up. Two of the six recieved the personal invitations. The other four had heard from someone else that we were going to be there. We were able to not only feed but to have pretty good conversations with each person. When told we were doing it again next week at the same place and same time, they all said they would tell all their friends. 
We'll make some improvements and prepare about the same amount we did this week. Hopefully we will double the amount of people we serve next week.
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