Empty Bowl Dinner to Benefit Friends Enrichment Program Takes Place March 30

The Friends Enrichment Program (FEP) for underserved, financially disadvantaged Moorestown children, will hold its annual Empty Bowl Dinner fundraiser on Sunday, March 30, in the Moorestown Friends Meetinghouse, located at 118 East Main Street, in Moorestown.

Proceeds will benefit the Moorestown Ministerium Live Civilly Food Pantry and the FEP scholarship for underserved children to attend summer camp, enroll in art classes or sports clinics, or take private music lessons at no cost to their parents.

The event combines food for the body with food for the mind and the soul, and is open to the public.  It is an opportunity for FEP children to greet guests and to sell the bowls they made and painted at a FEP workshop led by David Gamber, a ceramic artist and a Moorestown Friends School art teacher.

For a freewill donation, guests will select and buy a handmade ceramic bowl, eat a dinner of homemade soup, bread, and juice, and enjoy a Greater South Jersey chorus performance. 

There will be a variety of beautiful bowls and delicious soups to choose from, including bowls made by ceramic artists and bowls made by FEP children, as well as vegetable soups, chicken soups and meaty soups to choose from.

The first dinner sitting runs from 5-6 p.m., and is followed by the chorus performance, from 6- 6:30 p.m. The second dinner sitting runs from 6:30-7:30.

Reservations are advised. To reserve seats, call Moorestown Meeting office at 856-235-1561.