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Feedings will be held Thursdays @ 11am at:
Temple Corps
215 N. Calhoun Street
Baltimore, MD 21223
Due to the increase in need, the mobile canteen makes frequent trips across West Baltimore.
Cornbread Café is a ministry from The Salvation Army’s Temple Corps that has been around since 2020. In 2021, 10,975 boxed sandwich meals were provided to West Baltimore street homeless.
Every Thursday, boxed lunches are served to the homeless at 11:00 a.m at The Salvation Army’s Temple Corps located on 215 N. Calhoun St., Baltimore, MD. Since Cornbread Café is a mobile canteen, services are widespread around West Baltimore. Areas in West Baltimore that are in great need, such as abandoned buildings housing street homeless, are places Cornbread Café visits. Roughly, 200-250 street homeless are fed every Thursday. Weekly meals are comprised of sandwiches, chips, a cookie, and a drink; and these meals are purchased at a discount rate from Rouge Catering.
Captain Michael Chisolm and Lt. Schelika Chisolm, of Temple Corps incepted the Cornbread Café mobile canteen services during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Around that time two years ago, in April 2020, The Salvation Army of Central Maryland developed a Covid-19 Relief Hub on Lot C (M& T Bank Stadium). In partnership with The Department of Aging, Department of Transportation, and Rouge Catering, more than 10,000 meals were served to vulnerable seniors and to the unemployed.
Before Cornbread Café, street homeless would be treated to a dine-in meal inside Temple Corps. Around 40-50 seniors were fed once a week on Thursdays, from 2015 until 2020.
The Covid-19 Relief Hub inspired Captain and Lt. Chisolm to increase street homeless feeding initiatives by creating Cornbread Café, mobile canteen. Now more than 200 street homeless are fed across West Baltimore every Thursday. Many street homeless live in abandoned buildings and homes, and there are several homeless individuals that do not reach out for help. The mobile canteen meets food needs by driving into areas with great need. Volunteers and corps officers not only provide meals, but they also provide devotionals, prayer, and conversation. The homeless are treated as dignified people.
The increase in feedings, 200-250 meals each Thursday, are due to grant funding. Without grant funding, roughly 75 to 100 street homeless would be fed per week.
Cornbread Café is part of Captain Chisolm’s male ministry. Men from Temple Corps rally together each Thursday to feed and cultivate relationships with the homeless. Cornbread Café spreads The Salvation Army’s mission to share the love of Christ with prayer, kindness, and food. We meet people where they are.
What started as a mobile ministry in West Baltimore, has spread into a beacon of hope and conversation for street homeless living in unreachable parts of the city.
CORNBREAD CAFE