Herrin House of Hope to offer curbside pickup
HERRIN - The Herrin House of Hope, a ministry of the Herrin Ministerial Alliance (HMA) as a part of its COVID-19/CORONAVIRUS serve plan, is moving its hot meal service to a take out platform with a front-main door/curb side pickup, effective immediately. Meals will be provided Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.
This is in response to the Sunday's ordered suspension of all Illinois restaurant dine-in service from March 16-30, by Gov. JB Pritzker.
Pritzker's order does allow for curbside pickup service.
Lunch pickup service will continue until this order is lifted.
"The Herrin House of Hope, a ministry of the Herrin Ministerial Alliance will continue our commitment to making sure we are able to provide a warm and nutritious lunch to anyone in the Herrin Community that has a need," said ocal pastor Troy Benitone, who is media and public information coordinator for HHOH. "In the last 7-and-a-half years, since opening, the HHOH has served nearly 200,000 meals, and normally we serve 100-200 people per day with peak service taking place during the summer, when the kids are out of school, so we expect demand will be very high in the coming weeks ahead."
The Herrin House of Hope is located at 112 N. 14th St., in the heart of downtown Herrin.
Anyone needing a meal should simply come to the front entrance and a take-away meal will be provided. However, officials there are asking that anyone is experiencing symptoms such as fever, cough or shortness of breath, to refrain from coming at this time. Instead, those people are encouraged to help us all by contacting the SIH 24-HOUR COVID-19 HOTLINE at (844) 988-7800.
Regular workers and scheduled volunteers who are not experiencing any COVID symptoms should come to the back entrance, as normal, to help with service.
Anyone who would like to come and assist on weekdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. would be welcome.
The Director of the Herrin House of Hope, John Steve, will meet and screen all of our volunteers and staff daily at 10 a.m. and will provide additional information and training to meet the standards for providing safe-service meals in this new environment.