The Reverend Father Christoforos Schuff meanders between the tables, stopping to chat with each group individually - either in Greek, English, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish or one of the other four languages he speaks.
Born in the US but with links to Scandinavia, Schuff has lived in and around the village for 14 years. He has a serene aura about him and helps to co-ordinate the different organisations and lone volunteers into a system that just about works, despite the clear lack of any sizeable NGOs and any significant funding here.
Schuff, who works closely with the newly created Swedish NGO Lighthouse Refugee Relief organisation, can frequently be found on the beaches or in the makeshift refugee camps created and run by the small NGO that flank the village.
He has been known to give out pieces of carpet so that Muslim refugees have something on which to pray when they arrive ashore. "We all have the same God," he says.
"Because I'm a religious figure, perhaps they feel safe," Schuff adds, mulling over the thought. "I think there should be 100 priests down here. All the monasteries here on the island that have empty rooms and beds. They should be open too - but they're not."
When Schuff speaks, it is as though he is moving his thoughts from his head and out into the air. "All my brothers should be here," he says, his enthusiasm for the cause weighted by disappointment. "I believe in a God of love. If we don’t show love to our fellow man, we are not showing love to God. They go hand in hand."
A few minutes later, Schuff gets up to leave. He is off to pick up debris from the beach. After that, he will help to distribute water to the refugees. Then he will drive families that have just survived the trek across the Aegean to designated camps so that they do not have to walk the several kilometres, wet and cold, up Mt Lepetimnos.
"You know, someone asked me why I came here 14 years ago," Schuff says, almost as a passing comment, "and I said to them: 'To be here now'."
