This year we were able to team up with another local ministry for our annual holiday meal. The Good Samaritan Center is a fantastic organization that services the low income folks of our community with monthly food boxes and meets other needs. They felt God leading them to have a Thanksgiving meal similar to our Christmas meal and wanted to know if we would be willing to join them. Because we service so many of the same individuals and often work together, we heartily agreed. Approximately 100 volunteers were able to feed over 800 individuals this year. It was split almost evenly between 400 folks that ate in at the community center and 400 shut-ins and other folks to which we delivered meals. Thank you, Lord, for supplying the wonderful volunteers set up, cook and serve; for the generous folks who provided mashed potatoes, gravy, dressing, desserts, green beans, rolls and more; for the folks who opened up their businesses to cook the 40 turkeys; for the drivers who provided rides and delivered to shut-ins and others who were not able to come to eat at the community center; and for all that prayed for the event.
Volunteers of all ages came...
to debone turkeys,...
prepare take-outs,...
and deliver to shut-ins.
Local pastors came to give the Gospel,...
individuals came to entertain,...
and even more volunteers came to help serve...
even more individuals.
Praise be to God!
What a wonderful opportunity you guys had to serve. 800 people is a lot to serve. We recently helped at our local soup kitchen's Thanksgiving meal and it was such a blessings.
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Diane