Tim Scaife doesn’t even like fish. Yet every Lenten season for the past 14 years, he has overseen a six-night series of Friday fish fries for his church in Kittanning, Pennsylvania.
With 30 people in the pews on Sunday morning, Scaife and his volunteer crew feed as many as 180 people a week with tender-crisp fish as well as French fries, baked potatoes, macaroni and cheese, and homemade pies.
“I never ate fish, but I do eat the potatoes,” said Scaife, a member at First United Methodist Church, where Lenten fish fries started in the early 1990s. The Kittanning United Methodists borrowed the fundraising idea from the Catholic church located just across the alley.
