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CISNA is an orphanage that Greg Lewis of Catering by Design visited on a mission trip to El Salvador. Located in San Salvador it houses about 120 boys.

Greg Lewis visited the orphanage on at least one of his mission trips earlier this year. “When I visited the orphanage, I looked right through those wires into the orphanage. As soon as we went in the kids were so hungry for attention, they were all over us wanting to play. You can’t help but want to do something more for them.”

Photo from CISNA Blog

Orphan Helpers staffs the CISNA orphanage and on their Website they write that CISNA stands for “Complejo de Integración Social para la Niñez y la Adolescencia” (Complex for the Social Integration of Children & Teenagers)

Here is the About CISNA blog for the organization.

We’ve added a few other related links.

Orphan Hepers’ CISNA Page.

Orphan Helpers that does work with CISNA created this video on YouTube.

Here’s a newspaper story about the orphanage in Spanish.

The Church of the Woods offers services to the homeless throughout Wake County with food and support from local churches and communities.

The Raleigh, North Carolina based Church in the Woods has a mission to help the homeless in Raleigh, NC. It was their call to action to Triangle churches years back that led to our participating with Hope Chapel (Apex, NC) in cooking and donating hot food once a month in Moore Square.

For the past five years, on the 4th Saturday of the month, we at Catering by Design, have contributed hot meals that members of Hope Chapel served to homeless men and women in downtown Raleigh.

Back when we became part of it, very few churches were involved, and for years we could see and feel the difference we were making. Through the years since we began participating with Hope Chapel, many more communities have become involved, providing a much wider and stronger base of support.

Over the past year, the community at Hope Chapel began to feel it may be time to turn elsewhere in service work, and so, on the last Saturday in September, we prepared our last hot meal to give to the members of Hope Chapel to serve at Moore Square.

We’re grateful for the chance to have been of service, and especially would like to honor the Church in the Woods for their leadership in this important ministry.

For everything there is a time and a season. We know the immense value of helping others, and hope that all of us, especially as the season of giving approaches, will find ways that we can give back.

Catering by Design is still donating food weekly to the Church in the Woods, food that was not needed at the many events we cater each week.

To find out about helping the Church in the Woods, visit their How to Help page.

Hope Chapel has a Web site and a Facebook Page.

Catering by Design is located in Cary and also has a Facebook Page.
We are a full service caterer catering meals and events throughout the Triangle metropolitan area. Call (919) 481-2366 with your questions.

March 6, 2010 marks Catering by Design’s 10th anniversary.

We’ve had ten good years. We’ve been part of very important events in people’s lives. We’ve helped businesses take care of their employees and customers with meals and break food. We’ve served lunch to hundreds of school children.

We’ve worked with thousands of customers through Weddings, B’nai Mitzvah’s, Conferences, Annual Banquets, Picnics, Anniversaries, Awards Dinners, Fairs, Business Meetings, Annual Parties, Birthdays, you name it, and we’ve probably done it.

We are proud to have reached this milestone, proud also that some of the staff who started with us ten years ago are still working with us. “Chef Luis Compos, for example,” said our owner, Greg Lewis, “started washing dishes. He was interested in the business and because we cross train, he had the opportunity to work just about every job there was. When he showed a strong interest in cooking, he trained with me to become a chef. I’m very proud of him and his work.”

Catering by Design’s Operations Manager is Steve Zapadinsky. He arranges the events, orders everything, handles all equipment and oversees loading of the vans.

Jen Hernley is Catering by Design’s Sales Manager. When you want to talk with us about a catering event, Jen is the one you’ll make an appointment with and then meet in person. She handles the event budget, the selection process for the menu and anything else we are asked to do, including any special needs.

We have a number of event coordinators who actually manage the events on site: Cheri Matisuf, Steve Gade and Steve Lombardo. They are reliable and thorough, and take care of Catering by Design’s customers at the event sites.

Earlier this year, the Holly Springs Chamber of Commerce selected Catering by Design as their Small Business of the Year Award for outstanding service to the community and chamber.

We’re thankful for the past ten years, for our team and our customers. Here’s to the next ten!

From the Hope Chapel Missions Blog

The Fall is packed with events, peaking in October with weddings and continuing through the holiday season. With so much going on, it’s not the best time to make appointments; experienced and popular caterers will be busy.

So if you want to have a relaxed talk with a caterer about your event, wait until after the new year. January is a good month to start, except…

…except in the case of Catering-by-Design, in Cary. This year, Catering-by-Design’s owner and head chef, Greg Lewis took some off to be with family, and now he’s venturing out to El Salvador.

Hope Chapel has a team participating in a medical mission trip to El Salvador; Greg will be among them. They will brave the language difference, water you can’t drink and conditions very different than in Cary and the Triangle.

If you’d like to read about the work in El Salvador, see pictures and follow the Hope Chapel team, here’s the link to their blog: http://hopechapelmissions.blogspot.com/