John Tumino

IMFK is excited to announce the launch of Taste & See products. These delicious products are now available, and all proceeds go to benefit the work of In My Father’s Kitchen. Our hope is as the community “eats with a purpose” the mission of In My Father’s Kitchen is shared around the dinner table. Together with your support we are building hope and changing lives.

The purpose of our Sauce, Syrup and Coffee is to bring awareness to our work and those we help. These Products will help to bring in the finances to help IMFK continue to help those who feel invisible. The vision to help our friends is BIG and the proceeds from this sauce will help IMFK expand.

On behalf of those living outside we say thank you,

John, Leigh Ann and Team

Using your talents for others will always bring joy to your heart as well as a blessing to the person receiving your blessing. As a Chef there is no greater joy than to see someone enjoying a meal that you have prepared just for them. Today we made Kielbasa Sandwiches smothered with Onions, Peppers topped with Provolone Cheese and finished with LOVE. These Sandwiches were typical street food that you we would see sold on NYC street corners or sold in local delis through out our Country. As we delivered the meals today our friends would light up with excitement to receive one of these sandwiches. Very often our friends cant wait to dive in and eat, they will open the package right in front of us and chow down or bring it to their corner and start eating there. The great thing is that these awesome lunches are just a tool in our hands to continue dialogue as well as deepen our relationships with our friends outdoors. My talent is cooking and I love to feed our friends as well as get to know them better so we can truly understand what they need to get their lives back on track. If a meal brings us together for birthdays, holidays or other celebrations why not use it to bring our homeless friends to the Table were trust can take place. As we say in Italian ” Tuttia a tavola per Mangiare” translation ” Everyone to the Table to eat. Leigh Ann the Team and I appreciate your on going financial support together we are making a difference in our Community.

Using your talents for others will always bring joy to your heart as well as a blessing to the person receiving your blessing. As a Chef there is no greater joy than to see someone enjoying a meal that you have prepared just for them. Today we made Kielbasa Sandwiches smothered with Onions, Peppers topped with Provolone Cheese and finished with LOVE. These Sandwiches were typical street food that you we would see sold on NYC street corners or sold in local delis through out our Country. As we delivered the meals today our friends would light up with excitement to receive one of these sandwiches. Very often our friends cant wait to dive in and eat, they will open the package right in front of us and chow down or bring it to their corner and start eating there. The great thing is that these awesome lunches are just a tool in our hands to continue dialogue as well as deepen our relationships with our friends outdoors. My talent is cooking and I love to feed our friends as well as get to know them better so we can truly understand what they need to get their lives back on track. If a meal brings us together for birthdays, holidays or other celebrations why not use it to bring our homeless friends to the Table were trust can take place. As we say in Italian ” Tuttia a tavola per Mangiare” translation ” Everyone to the Table to eat. Leigh Ann the Team and I appreciate your on going financial support together we are making a difference in our Community.

Today was a scorcher during Hire Ground clean up around the community, the heat index was at 100 degrees! This crew of 6 awesome friends picked up over 900 Gallons of debris through out our community. Many have said that Panhandlers and Homeless individuals do not want to work but we have seen different. Week after week we go out and give those who our struggling and opportunity to obtain dignity through the sweat of their brow and the work of their hands. Our friends might not be to the point of obtaining regular employment because of many scenarios of brokenness but we encourage them and show them that if they can work a 5 hour shift with us during their struggles to imagine what could happen if they allow us to lead them to wholeness. Nothing is Impossible for anyone especially when you have someone standing in your corner encouraging you and advocating for your needs to be met. So after a hard days work Kevin and Carolyn treated our Crew to ICE CREAM, who doesn’t like ice cream? Together Sous Chefs with your support we are Building Hope and Changing Lives

John and Leigh Ann

Its never ceases to amazing me how a wonderful lunch can open a door for change to happen. Food becomes a real living tool for dialogue to begin and for Hope to arrive. Today we were able to connect with a young woman on the corner, we asked her if she needed anything else other than lunch because we were really concerned for her. She paused for a moment, looked up and said she wanted to go to a detox to get off Heroine. We let her know that we had connections to Helio Health and their Cody Team who could come right out to start the process. Our friend agreed we called our friend Jacob from Helio and he was over to our location within 25 minutes to do an intake. One of the things that starts to happen when the ball starts rolling is cold feet and a change of mind, our friend started to say that she was having a tooth issue and needed antibiotics before she could go. Our friend forgot that Dr. Lehmann was with us and I said Doc can take care of that right now, thats when Jacob pulled up from Helio. Doc assessed her tooth gave her some antibiotics to take for the rest of the week and then we introduced her to Jacob and made the connection. Jacob was assessing her and then going to see if there was a bed available today for her. This is just one of many out of the box scenarios that happen on the streets for our friends. I always tell them my connections are your connection my friends are your friends, Relationships Minimize Risk for our friends and with your continued support all these out of the box scenarios become possible. Thank You

John and Leigh Ann