More than 150 homeless men and women enjoyed healthy servings of Christmas dinner last Saturday when volunteers from the Prison Fellowship setup a provisional kitchen on Court Street.

This is the third year the project dubbed "Hands of Love'', has been providing free meals to the homeless at Christmas.

Tables were set up next to the Bargain Centre and food was served from 12 p.m.

until 5 p.m.

"The response was equal to last year,'' said the Rev. Glenn Caines, director of Prison Fellowship (Bermuda).

"We were able to serve over 200 pounds of turkey along with cassava pie peas and rice and macaroni and cheese. There was also homemade vegetable soup.'' The food was cooked by Prison Fellowship volunteers in their own homes.

"There is an element of justice involved here,'' Mr. Caines added, "Those who are homeless are in conflict with a system that is not responsive to their needs while the volunteers, many of whom were unable to relate with homeless people, were brought together.

"It was exciting to see these people who volunteered being touched in this way. Their ministry became very real for them.'' Mr. Caines said that there was a good cross section of people involved in both aspects of the event.

"Hands of Love Ministry invited us at Prison Fellowship to join with them last year. We are a transdenominational group. We have Baptists, Anglicans and Pentecostals who all participate in this outreach.'' HANDS OF LOVE -- Prison Fellowship volunteer Mrs. Joy Fubler serves another warm plate of Christmas dinner to one of the many homeless people who came to the makeshift kitchen on Court Street last Saturday.