The Eclipse Project: Helping Harrisburg's Homeless

11/27/2025

11/26/2025

This was 3 years ago.
This year, we have 12 turkeys. We will be spatchcocking them on Saturday, so if anyone wants to pitch in for a few hours with food prep on Saturday for Sunday's meal, we'd greatly appreciate it. We will be putting together all of the casseroles, making sandwiches, roasting and disassembling all of the turkeys. I plan to start between noon and 1:00 p.m.

11/25/2025

The meal for our differently sheltered friends yesterday included but was not limited to
Baked ziti
Golden BBQ chicken breast with potatoes and squash
Chicken with broccoli and mini cheese raviolis in a tomato cream sauce
Ramen with fresh vegetables and chicken
Pasta with sausage
Bourbon maple pecan chicken with vermicelli
Chili dog mac and cheese
Baked macaroni and cheese
Tater tot casserole
Cream spinach with cheese
French toast bagel bake with fried apples, raisins, and pecans
Peach croissant bake with maple syrup
Confetti bean salad
Coleslaw
French bread pizza
Roasted veggies (butternut squash, purple sweet potato, and cabbage)
Snacks, drinks, and desserts, including homemade sweet potato pie.
Sandwiches

Thank you to Bethany Church of the Nazarene for your kitchen, Country Gourmet at the Market for your food donation, Lindy for picking up at Panera when the one the scheduled pickup person had an emergency, and Keith for donating prepared food.

My team is amazing. My Eclipse volunteers have become family.
Somebody please yell at me if I forget someone but my team this week was Jerry, Eric, Sue, Trish, Shaun, Danielle, Alexa, Ed, Ashley, the other Ashley, Cheryl, and Thomas. I'm going to encourage all of them to share their experiences here, how they got started volunteering, what they were expecting, if it was different from what they were expecting, how it's changed them, anything they want to say.

I was at the church today to pass on six pans of food to my friend Carolyn who serves on Tuesdays and also to meet with Joanie and her mom who brought eight boxes of goodies for our Thanksgiving meal which included ham, milk, butter, bread, potatoes, stuffing cubes, and canned food courtesy of her friend Rex. I took all of the turkeys out of the freezer today for this coming Sunday's meal. Jennie visited us yesterday and brought six turkeys and six bags of Thanksgiving meal supplies from her church giveaway, as they had extra. I am blessed with full freezers and full refrigerators right now!

We will be meeting Saturday at the church at around noon to spatchcock a dozen turkeys and roast and carve them, prepare some fresh homemade gravy, put together the casseroles, the baked corn, the green bean casserole, get the cranberry sauce ready, and make sure we are prepared for Sunday's Thanksgiving meal. Anyone wishing to volunteer, please send me a message!

11/24/2025

I tried to add these to our Amazon wish list and I was allowed to add them but, when someone checked the list, it said they were unable to be ordered as part of a wish list!
There are ways to get around that. If you click on the product and order it, it can be shipped to the church's address.
Eclipse Project
C/O Bethany Church of the Nazarene
1605 Parkway West
Harrisburg, PA 17112.
Or, if you're close by and you're able to drop off, they could be delivered to your address.
I'm also adding coffee cups to the wish list.
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Dart 85HT3R Med perforated 3 comp foam hinged container, 8.5 inches (Case of 200).

11/19/2025

Please be on the lookout and contact this page if you know his whereabouts. Feel free to share. Thank you.

This page was created by the family of Anthony Richardson, who has been missing since February 2025. Anthony is a deeply loved son, brother, father, and friend — and we are desperate to find him and ensure he is safe.
Our goal is to raise awareness, share verified updates, gather tips, and centralize any information that could help locate Anthony. If you have seen him, heard from him, or know anything that may help, please reach out — even small details can make a difference.
Despite our efforts, we have faced challenges filing an official missing persons report due to jurisdictional and legal barriers. Authorities have told us that because Anthony is not a danger to himself or others, and because “it’s not a crime to leave without telling someone,” they are limited in what they can do — unless we go to the police department in person, which is 6+ hours away from any of us.
The longest Anthony has ever gone without contacting anyone was during a stay in rehab — but his birthday came and went this year, and none of us heard a word. That has never happened before.
🧡 Please share this page, help us spread the word, and let Anthony know — wherever he is — that his family is here, waiting, loving, and never giving up.
If you are posting tips, memories, or photos that might help, please use our hashtag: FindAnthonyRichardson

11/18/2025

Sunday's meal for our differently sheltered friends: see photos.

Can I just say that I have the best team? My volunteers are no joke. Fortunate to have such dedicated parts in my bubble.

Thanks to Country Gourmet at the Market and Panera and whoever picked up, Bethany Church of the Nazarene for your kitchen, and those who donated items and those who donated items or prepared dishes or ingredients for the meal. We got ham, sliced, from Steve that we used for our ham and green beans, a beautiful huge baked ziti casserole from Rachel and Safa, pork barbecue quesadillas from Keith, tots from Bob, chili from Gerry, butternut squash from Dickinson farms, pasta with sausage from Trish, and many other items that I wish I could list in full!

Please keep our friends in your prayers as the weather gets colder.

Our needs continue to be the same. Coffee cups, Ziploc baggies for sandwiches, cases of water, other kinds of drinks, non-perishables like canned food, dry pasta, and perishables like milk, eggs, cheese, butter. Donations could be made at any time at the address in our profile picture. Non-perishables, I am at the church usually from at least 4:00 until 8:00 p.m. Saturday evenings and Sundays from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. And again from 5:30 until about 7:30 p.m.

Thank you to everyone who continues to make this possible. We are coming up on our 5-year anniversary on December 13th! I'm proud to be able to say we haven't missed a single weekend in almost 5 years. ❤️

11/10/2025

Today's meal for our differently. Sheltered friends...see photos!

Please share our posts! The more people who know about us, the more we can do!

If anyone is looking for donation ideas, we are all out of Ziploc sandwich bags. We make about a hundred sandwiches every week. We also could use coffee cups with lids, 12 oz preferably.

We had a couple new volunteers this weekend who were awesome and we made some new friends. Both new volunteers said they were coming back again! I had someone reach out to me last night who's interested in helping me prep food on Saturdays, which is huge! We are growing by leaps and bounds, as far as needing to feed more people than we ever have, so we will take all the help we can get! We happily and graciously accept all sorts of food donations, whether it's ingredients or prepared dishes or desserts. Donations can be made to the address and in our profile picture at any time. If you have perishable donations, things that need to be frozen or refrigerated, we are at the church every Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. If you're not available at that time, I live fairly close to the church and can accommodate other days.

We appreciate donations of clothing, first aid items, feminine products, toiletries, batteries of all size, any sources of heat with the cold weather coming, anything that someone could use if they were camping full time.

If you are considering volunteering and you're just not sure, stop by any Sunday morning between 11:00 and 2:00 and meet us and I'll give you the $0.25 tour and if you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them. You don't have to have kitchen experience to help. All you need is a big heart. We have volunteers of different physical abilities and we all have our own stories on things that we've been through personally, mentally, emotionally, and together, we are stronger. We do not take anyone under 18 out with us to serve but we welcome school kids, scout troops, youth groups, etc. who are looking for community service hours to help in the kitchen. If you have any questions, reach out to me or ask them here! We'd love to have you join us.

We are open to collaboration with other groups that might want to serve on a Sunday. Many hands make light work. Maybe you're just a small group, just getting started, maybe you don't serve every single Sunday, or you just serve around the holidays, but if you'd like to jump in with us, the only stipulation we have is that we don't take photos of the people we serve. We respect everyone's right to privacy and dignity. Feel free to reach out.

Thank you to my tireless volunteers for making Sundays fun. As much hard work as it is, we do be laughin'. 😁

11/09/2025

Sneak peek for tomorrow. I'm just getting home now. Eight hours in the kitchen today! I mostly talked to myself and sang random songs but I did have company twice, lovely people bringing donations and one even shredded cabbage and sliced a bunch of onions for me!
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11/08/2025

First picture is donations Jerry brought in last night. Second picture is from just now when I arrived at the church. So many blessings, it's like Christmas everyday. Thank you to whoever dropped off pet food! I am at the church for the next. Probably at least 3 hours to prep for tomorrow's meal. So anyone with perishable donations, just stop by and come in. I'll be in the kitchen!

11/08/2025

Pulled my ingredients tonight and made my menu for Sunday. I will be at the church kitchen Saturday evening after 5:30 or 6:00 for a few hours for people who are asking about dropping off perishable donations. ❤️

11/06/2025

I spoke with the gentleman who needs the generator for heat so that he can recuperate from surgery in his tent after he's released from the hospital. I don't know a thing about generators so I asked him to send me some links and I added them to our Amazon wish list. Someone asked for information on what kind of generator and I didn't have anything on the wish list at the moment so it is there now. If someone is financially able to purchase one and have it delivered to us, I can get it to him or if several people want to contribute to the purchase, we can very easily go that route as well via Venmo etc. I will also be driving him to his doctor's appointment on Tuesday afternoon so please keep him in your prayers so things go well for him. He is going so that the doctor can discuss the results of his last test and hopefully schedule a surgery to reverse his colostomy.

$105 raised so far!