Moorestown FEP Dinner Set For Sunday

MOORESTOWN, NJ — Bowls created by 32 people, including 19 children ages 5 and up and 13 adults, will be on display and up for sale during the Friends Enrichment Program of Moorestown (FEP) Empty Bowl Dinner at Moorestown Friends School this weekend. The dinner is 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. For a free-will donation, guests will choose a bowl and fill it with the homemade soup of their choice. Cookies will complete the meal.

Guests will also have the opportunity to meet 34-year-old Paul Carson, a former FEP kid who will give an informal talk to the group, directing his remarks to the children. As a child, Carson lived in Moorestown with his mother and three siblings.

The bowls were made during the FEP’s annual pottery workshop. In an art studio of Moorestown Friends School, under the leadership of Moorestown Friends school art teacher and ceramic artist David Gamber, participants made, painted, and decorated ceramic bowls. His son, Eli Gamber, a Moorestown Friends School senior, assisted his father, devoting two-and-a-half hours of community service to the project.

The Empty Bowl Dinner is a fundraiser for benefit of the FEP scholarship fund. The proceeds will be used to pay for qualifying Moorestown children to attend summer camp, enroll in art classes or sports clinics, or take music lessons, or participate in other age-appropriate life-enhancing programs at no cost their parents.

Since its inception in 1997, FEP has issued scholarships to more than 400 children, with many of them having benefited from FEP scholarships year after year until they outgrew FEP or moved on. For all the scholarships it issued, FEP raised more than $211,000.

In addition to scholarships, FEP offers a program of Sunday afternoon activities open to all FEP scholarship recipients and young friends of FEP. That program is run by volunteers. Young people wishing to help with donations of time and talent are always welcome, and their community service hours are recorded and recognized. For more information, call Monique Begg at 856-235-3963 or the Meeting office at 856-235-1561.

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