What a blessed Thanksgiving tradition we have at Christ The Rock. Ever since we’ve been a church (26 years), we’ve served some sort of meal in our community. And for the past 15 of those years, we’ve done it in a very big way.
This year our Thanksgiving Meal chairman Dave Lemke personally cooked 200 turkeys in our CTR kitchens and organized a team of 500 volunteers. In all, 3,200 meals were prepared and served.
The turkeys and all of the side dishes are donated. With 5,000 servings of potatoes and stuffing, 2,500 servings of green bean casserole and cranberries, and about 400 pies and various donated pastry and bread items, everyone had enough.
Volunteers served about 1,200 of those meals at Monarch Gardens in Appleton, and the remainder were delivered to people’s homes. For many on those routes, our delivery people were the only human contacts they had for the holiday traditionally spent with family and friends.
As the need continues to rise in this down economy, we are very thankful that the donations of time, money and food has not fallen off. God is great!
Check out our photo gallery of Thanksgiving 2008:
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