Help feed your Bates County neighbors!
The annual Thanksgiving meal with Judge Julie Highley and the Carpenters Cup is teaming up to provide a free Thanksgiving meal again this year. Last year, around 500 meals were given out. Our goal this year, is to meet this amount and surpass it! Wouldn't it be wonderful if we ran completely out of food!!
Our meal consists of turkey or ham, mashed potatoes and gravy or sweet potato casserole. The vegetable choice is between seasoned green beans (seasoned with ham ends), or corn. All meals will have dressing, homemade cranberry sauce, a roll and butter. Dessert choices are between pumpkin or apple pie.
We rely on the county to provide the money that pays for the meats, paper products and advertising, and food donations. We also need volunteers to make some of the food here at the Carpenters Cup prior to Thanksgiving day and work in the kitchen on Thanksgiving day. We need delivery drivers to deliver the meals all over the county.
This is a huge, exhausting, extremely fulfilling project. Anything God lays on your heart to do or give, whether a little or a lot, is appreciated and needed.
The food we need is
turkeys: 50
hams: 20
white potatoes: 280 lbs
sweet potatoes: 140 lbs
gallon cans of green beans: 25
gallon cans of corn: 20
brown and serve rolls: 45 packages
onions: 3 bags
butter: 50 lbs
gallon freezer bags: 10 boxes
apple pies (8 pcs/pes): 50
pumpkin pies (8 pcs/pie): 50
hefty 9x9 3 part take out boxes: 500
dessert clam shell boxes: 300
apple juice: 20 64 oz bottles
turkeys for baskets: 40
white potatoes for baskets: 150 lbs
regular cans corn: 80
regular cans green beans: 80
apple pie filling: 80 cans
boxed pie crusts (2 per box): 40
brown or turkey gravy packets: 80 packs
brown and serve rolls: 40 packs
stuffing mix: 40 boxes
plastic ware: 500
Knorr chicken bouillon: 5 jars
Please bring your donations to the Carpenters Cup, or give to Judge Julie Highley.
If you are interested in volunteering for kitchen help or delivery, call 660-679-3333.
If you want to order your Thanksgiving meal, call 660-679-3333. Please pass this information to those you know not on fb, and share this post. We heard last year, there were people that did not get a meal because they did not know this was available to them.
Proverbs 22:9 "The generous will themselves be blessed for they share their food with the poor".
