Thanksgiving at Colonial Heights

For many years Colonial Heights has given out food baskets, using names shared with us by community agencies. This year was no exception.

Here Steven and Don help load a basket for a family.

In 2000, as a memorial to member Rick Flanagan, tragically killed by an impaired driver, we began a Thanksgiving Day meal. This year, we fed about 375 folks, many of them homeless or from public housing, and many of them who had no family to spend the day with.

Here's a picture of some of the crowd there that day. We had lots of help from church folks and a few from other churches: Seymour, Fairview UMCs and Hillcrest UMC let us borrow their van. We transported quite a few folks, because many of those who want to come have no transportation.

Jon came all the way from Massachusettes to give haircuts. Some of the folks who took advanage of this gift had not had a professional haircut for many years, apparently.

Table decorations were provided by South Knoxville Elementary School: the woven mat, and by our Girl Scout troop: the pine cone turkey and gourds.

Thanks go to all who made this a special time at Colonial Heights. We see all this as a response in Thanksgiving for all that God has provided for us as a people and as a congregation.