Harpoon Helps Mission: Wayside Soup Kitchen (Portland)

The Wayside Soup Kitchen is currently in its twentieth year serving hot, nutritious, evening meals to the homeless and poor of Southern Maine. Wayside is open from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m., seven nights a week, 365 days a year and has never missed a meal in its history. The Wayside Soup Kitchen is comprised of 61 churches, civic groups, and businesses. Wayside has over 2,000 volunteers and serves an average of 241 people each evening. This past year Wayside provided 68,275 evening meals, 760 of those were to children.