A New York church is gearing up for it’s fifth annual Thanksgiving dinner, which is expected to feed 1,000 people.
Pastor Reggie Stutzman of the Real Life Church in New York City, will lead 120 volunteers in hosting a restaurant-style Thanksgiving dinner in Hunts Point, Bronx next week.
Guests will be treated to a “full turkey dinner” as well as musical entertainment. They will then be free to take home a variety of donated supplies, including used clothing and toiletries, and the event is entirely free.
“It’s our fifth year and we do it every year at a place in Hunts Point called The Point (a community development center). In the last four years we’ve fed around 3,000 people. We get [the food] from The Bowery Mission,” Stutzman told The Christian Post. “So it’s a full turkey dinner with all the trimmings and then free clothes and free toiletries.”
Guests, who Stutzman described as being a “good mix of people,” are free to walk in on Thanksgiving between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. They will then be seated and served without the hassle of long lines.
“It’s all waiter-style, I don’t want any numbers or any lines. I want people to be treated as they would in a restaurant,” he said. “We’ll have some volunteers that actually plate the food and then others that will waiter it out and wait on people. Other people are cutting pieces of pie and putting it on plates … and then clean up and so forth so it’s a beautiful day.”
This year Stutzman, who began hosting the free Thanksgiving dinner in 2010, worked closely with World Vision and other organizations that assisted in making it all possible. The event has become the church’s signature outreach…Read More
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