The 7th annual Grace Ministries Thanksgiving meal giveaway is taking shape and organizer Bobby West said the plan is to provide 3,000 meals to folks in the community on Saturday, Nov. 18.
In addition to the Grace Ministries location at 215 Crozier St., West said there are a number of locations where individuals across Vance, Granville and Warren counties can go to pick up to-go plates, filled with pork loin, vegetables, stuffing and a dessert.
The event gets underway at 11 a.m., but there’s a lot of preparation that goes in to making that happen, West said on Monday’s The Local Skinny!
He said he expects to feed 1,000 at the Crozier Street location – folks can dine there or pick up a takeout plate.
All the other locations are takeout only, and West said they could use some volunteers to help, beginning at 8:30 on the morning of Nov. 18. “We’re going to need 2,000 plates ready to go by 11 o’clock,” he said.
It’ll probably take 100 or so volunteers that morning, West said, adding that there will be six or seven lines set up to pack all the plates. “We’ll pack them up fast, get them out the door and to the locations,” he said.
It’s their biggest outreach effort of the year, and West said he’s grateful to the churches in the area that help out each year. “We couldn’t without support of the community and other churches,” he said. “God has been so good to us…we just do it as an act of kindness – the world can use some more kindness.”
And cakes. They need cakes – 160, truth be told, West said, for each of those 3,000 plates. If you can help out, give him a call at 252.432.7124.
Monetary donations may be sent to Grace Ministries, P.O. Box 316, Henderson, NC 27536.
Following is the list of satellite locations that will have plates ready for distribution:
- Grace Baptist Church near fairgrounds;
- South Henderson Church of God set up last year at Rose’s on Dabney Drive;
- Room At The Cross, 235 Booth Ave.;
- Rushing Waters Outreach in Oxford;
- Norlina Baptist Church, Norlina;
- Old Aycock gym, Vicksboro Road, by New Sandy Creek Baptist Church;
- West End Baptist Church, Dabney Drive;
- Location across from standpipe on Andrews Avenue.
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