St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen–the longest, continuously running soup kitchen since 1870–serves our community’s poor, homeless, and less fortunate six days a week. Each person is given a sandwich, cup of soup, snack, dessert, and drink. The Soup Kitchen needs the following items: vegetables (onions, cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes, beans, etc.), stew meat, chips/pretzels, cookies/brownies, coffee, sugar, and bottled water. For more information, call our beautiful and historic St. Mary Catholic Church, 155 Market St., Downtown Memphis, at: 901-522-9420.