A team of behind-the-scenes culinary professionals carefully creates every bite of food served at Trinity United Methodist. If you’d like to exercise your culinary talents, we have a place for you – whether it’s baking muffins or cookies, preparing vegetables or making sauces and soups. Opportunities are available during the weekdays, before and after services and during special ministry events on campus.
 
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Kelly E. King
Director of Food Services

Chef Kelly King, Trinity's Food Service Director, is a graduate of the California Culinary Academy/Le Cordon Bleu in San Francisco, California.  After graduating with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Culinary Arts, she moved to Maui, Hawaii where she worked for five years for Chef Roy Yamaguchi.  (Chef Yamaguchi is credited with the creation of Hawaiian Fusion Cuisine.)  During her employment at Roy’s the restaurant concept was purchased by Outback Steakhouse’s fine dining division.  Kelly jumped on the opportunity to move back to Florida and helped open four of their Florida and Georgia locations.  Missing her family and friends led this Gainesville native to move back home in 2001.  She opened  “A Touch Above Catering” and ran it successfully for two years before selling it to move on to the next phase of her career.  In 2003 she took the Food Service Director position at Trinity United Methodist Church. It was a natural fit for Kelly --she grew up in church kitchens.  Her mother helped start the Wednesday night program at her childhood church and her aunt has long served as the Hospitality Coordinator for her church.  Kelly truly believes that all of her culinary paths led her to this job.  And that God blessed her with the opportunity to serve at Trinity in such a wonderful facility with such amazing people.   Kelly is married and has a daughter.

Donna White
Kitchen Ministry Assistant

Donna, the daughter of a Preacher, was raised in South Georgia.  She spent her childhood, beginning at age four, traveling and singing with her family's gospel group.  Donna has worked extensively in the hotel and restaurant industry, as well as helping her husband run their own catering business.  She presently serves as the Ministry Assistant and Music leader at Pine Grove Baptist Church.  This combination of hospitality and ministry experience make her a unique fit for service in the Trinity United Methodist kitchen where she has served for the past 4 years as a kitchen assistant.  Donna is married and has two children.