Fellowship Friday Business dinners
February 16th, 2024
Our very first Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held on February 16th, 2024, at Angelotti's Pizza in Inverness Fl. We had a total of 25 different Citrus County businesses in attendance.
March 15th, 2024
For the month of March, our Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held at Cedar River Seafood in Crystal River, Fl. We had 35 in attendance.
April 19th, 2024
For the month of April, our Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held at Crystal River Smokehouse! We had 37 in attendance.
May 17th, 2024
For the month of May, our Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held at Peck's Old Port Cove! We had 50 in attendance.
June 21st, 2024
For the month of June, we did something a little different - our first ever Fellowship Friday Business Dinner FOOD TRUCK FEST!! It was held at The Hernando Church of Nazarene's Activity Hall! We had 71 in attendance.
July 19th, 2024
For the month of July, we had to sell tickets for the first time due to restaurant capacity - our July Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held at Joe's Family Restaurant in Inverness! We sold 61 tickets!
August 16th, 2024
For the month of August, our Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held at The Hernando Church of Nazarenes Activity Hall. We had delicious Italian Cuisine catered by Tangerine Tree Luncheonette!
September 20th, 2024
For the month of September, our Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held at The Hernando Church of Nazarenes Activity Hall once again. We will be having mouthwatering BBQ from the fabulous Cleveland's Catering!
October 18th, 2024
For the month of October, our Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held at The Hernando Church of Nazarenes Activity Hall again. We will be having delicious food catered by Waves Coastal Kitchen!
November 15th, 2024
For the month of November, our Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held at The Hernando Church of Nazarenes Activity Hall. We had a buffet style "Fellowship Feast" featuring AMAZING classic Southern Thanksgiving Food by Tangerine Tree Catering! $20.00 per person for all you can eat main course, dessert and drink included!!
We were also able to, through donations of our small business attendees provide 22 - $99 Thanksgiving Meal Deals for a family of 4 prepared by The Breakfast Station of Beverly Hills!! The Breakfast Station then matched our donated meals ultimately feeding 44 families resulting in 176 bellies being full!! We donated these meals to CASA, Citrus County Blessings and The Family Resource Center!
Happy Thanksgiving!
December 20th, 2024
For the month of December, our Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held at The Hernando Church of Nazarenes Activity Hall. We had the delicious food from The Tasty Cajun & Festive MOCKtails from Southern Charm Mobile Bar!!
We played an eventful dice game with our Christmas Mug exchange & collected enough items for our "OPERATION: Senior Santa 2024" to provide 60 Seniors in our community with gift bags full of personal care items, cards/puzzles/activity books and treats along with handmade Christmas cards by Gulf Coast Manatees Homeschool Group!!!
We also had the JOLLIEST guest join us for a photoshoot by Your Captured Moments LLC! Santa!!
Merry Christmas!!
January 17th, 2025
For the month of January, our event was held at the Crystal Oaks Civic Association with delicious food catered dinner by Cleveland’s Catering! Southern Charm was also on site with fresh squeezed lemonades, specialty hot chocolates and gourmet coffees!
February 21st, 2025 -ONE YEAR CELEBRATION
Our ONE YEAR celebration was held at the Crystal Oaks Clubhouse! Liberty Steaks Food Truck provided us with delicious food & we heard from our guest speakers George Schmalstig, CEO of Citrus County United Way as well as Operations Manager, Madelyn Russell.
Our Sherrif and his beautiful wife Angel surprised us & we gave away a gift basket worth over $500!!!
March 21st, 2025
For the month of March, our Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held Crystal oaks Clubhouse & Waves Coastal Kitchen was on site as our caterer!
WiN - Women in Networking sponsored our venue for the night!!
April 18th, 2025
For the month of April, our Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held at Crystal Oaks Clubhouse.
Cleveland's Catering provided us with an awesome spread of Mexican food!!
Coastal Tanning Salon and Cleveland's Catering sponsored our venue this evening!
May 16th, 2025
For the month of May, our Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held at the Crystal Oaks Clubhouse and we had an amazing "Breakfast for Diner" night!! Food by Cleveland's Catering!!
We had a tiny but mighty group!!
August 15th, 2025 - BACK FROM SUMMER BREAK
Our Fellowship Friday Business Dinners resumed in the month of August after a two-month summer break!! & boy did our attendees show up!!!
We packed Cattledog Coffee Roasters in Inverness and enjoyed an absolutely mouthwatering Mediterranean buffet made by Cattledog's owner, James!!
Everyone had a blast!!!
September 19th, 2025
For the month of September, our Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held at Breakfast Station of Beverly Hills with a fabulous Italian buffet made by them!!!!
We had a sign-up sheet for CASA Citrus's Domestic Violence Walk happening on October 18th!
Those who signed up at our dinner, were permitted to add a second entry into our door prize drawing!
We raised over $100 for them this evening!
October 17th, 2025
For the month of October, our Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held at The Hernando Church of Nazarenes Activity Hall. We had an awesome spread for our Soulfood buffet by Cleveland's Catering!
We collected travel size toiletry items for our 2nd Annual Senior Santa coming up in December!!
Our goal was 50 of each item requested, and our amazing attendees knocked it out of the park!!
Our venue fee was sponsored by Spacedream Productions!!
November 21st, 2025
For the month of November, our Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held at held at Cattledog Coffee Roasters at their Inverness location. We had a buffet style "Fellowship Feast" featuring AMAZING classic Southern Thanksgiving Food by Cattledog!
We will also had available, donation forms for our dinner attendees to sponsor a $99 Thanksgiving Meal Deals for a family of 4 prepared by The Breakfast Station of Beverly Hills!! The Breakfast Station agreed to match our donated meals again this year!! We ultimately raised $2,772.00 for 28 thanksgiving meals for Family Resource Center in partnership with Breakfast Station Beverly Hills which helped feed 112 people this year for thanksgiving!
Big thanks to everyone who participated and to the Citrus County Chronicle for including us in an article to highlight this!
December 19th, 2025
For the month of December, our Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held at the rented Hernando Church of Nazarenes Activity Hall. We had an awesome spread from Citrus Southern Eatz with a Hot Potato Bar and Salad Bar! We also had a complimentary Hot Cocoa Bar Sponsored by: Southern Remedy LLC
We collected our final items for our 2nd Annual Operation Senior Santa and played all attendees participated in our 2nd Annual Christmas Mug Exchange!
January 16th, 2026
For the month of January 2026, our Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held at the rented Hernando Church of Nazarenes Activity Hall. We had an awesome spread from Cody's Roadhouse in Crystal River via Catering! Everyone was thrilled!
We collected paper good items for the cold weather shelter!
February 20th, 2026
For the month of February 2026, we had a huge celebration for our Fellowship Friday Business Dinner TWO-YEAR Anniversary of dinners!!!!
It was held at the Realtor Association Building in Lecanto thanks to Dave & Betty Wheeler of ERA Suncoast Realty! We had a delicious spread from Olive Garden & collected Peanut Butter and Jelly for Family Resource Center with our "Spread the love" food drive!
We had a record-breaking attendance of 80 attendees including our amazing Sheriff and his wife Angel! (Not all pictured)
March 13th, 2026
For the month of March 2026, our Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held at Cattledog Coffee Roasters Hernando Location!
They served up an amazing fajita bar!!
We helped sell tickets for CASA Citrus Annual Fundraiser "Hops for Hope"
April 17th 2026
For the month of April 2026, our Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held at the rented Hernando Church of Nazarene Activity Hall!
We had a wonderful spread of food from The Roost who is based out of Homosassa!
Beebe Embroidery Source was our venue sponsor and spared more information on their services!
We collected items for a local non-profit: Gulf Coast Manatee Home-School Group!
May 15th 2026
Our May 2026 Fellowship Friday Business Dinner was held at Breakfast Station Beverly Hills where they provided us with a crowd-pleasing Breakfast Bar loaded with all the favs!
It was a heartfelt dinner as we spoke about a dear member, Kay Torcuator who lost her battle with chronic kidney disease on May 5th. We honored her memory & shed tears for the great loss of a true friend.
Our Fellowship Fam really showed up for our community give-back of the month. We had a "gift card drive" for a local business whose owner passed away in a tragic explosion in downtown inverness. Our amazing group kept adding and adding to our total and we were able to provide the family of David Mohr, Owner of Storm Distillery, $700.
We are on our annual summer break for June/July & we will be back in August!
August 2026
Can't wait to see everyone!