Community Thanksgiving Dinner 2025

For almost three decades, Zion’s has provided Thanksgiving Dinner for the community, putting into practice our message of God’s Work Our Hands. The first year focused on meals for college students who could not go home for the holidays and began with three church families who got together to share Thanksgiving dinner with them. Only a few attended, but through the years the ministry grew to embrace the homeless, senior citizens, students, shut-ins, those who are ill or homebound, and the community at large.

While our 5-Loaves Ministry serves about 250 meals to more than 100 families and individuals each month, the Thanksgiving meal reaches more than three times that many people who either attend the dinner in person, pick up their meals, or request delivery. Our Thanksgiving Day “guest list” includes Meals on Wheels recipients and those who often eat at the senior center, as well as students who cannot go home for the holiday, the homebound, and the unhoused. People who need meals delivered, or who know someone who would like to receive a dinner, should call or message the church to request a meal delivery.

Zion’s Thanksgiving ministry has not missed a year since its inception, and our Thanksgiving team worked with the soup kitchen in 2020 to prepare and distribute meals in compliance with COVID-19 health and safety restrictions. Even without in-person dining, Zion’s still provided 500 meals.

Area community organizations, neighboring churches, and local businesses or individuals are invited to help with food preparation, service, delivery and clean up. Thay also are encouraged to make a monetary or in-kind donation to this community event. Individual donations are welcome as well and can be mailed to the church at 510 Pine Street (designate Thanksgiving on all donations). In addition, donations are welcome using this link:

https://tithe.ly/give_new/www/#/tithely/give-one-time/1334741