Operation Thanksgiving

Early this year around the time of Thanksgiving I had the pleasure of helping Holy Cross Lutheran distribute frozen turkeys, vegetables, and other grains to the people in the area struggling to cook a Thanksgiving Dinner in the area.  I arrived early in the morning to find the volunteers scrambling to prepare the food for the flood of people arriving.  The first thing they had me do was move bags filled with packages of rice, cookies, chips, and other dry foods to the door where they would be handed to the people as they arrived at the first station.  Then they had me move around bags of produce and frozen turkeys to a table so that at the second station they could easily hand them out.  About two hours after we started, they ran out of turkeys and sent a man to buy about 100 more and the whole operation stopped.  When the man got back we unloaded his minivan that was completely filled with turkeys in every spot imaginable.  We then continued the assembly line until we ran out of turkeys and then we gave them chickens.  Soon after, we ran out of chickens and we could only give that last remaining people the produce and the bags of grains.  At the very end we were completely out of food and every person who came was very appreciative for the food and everyone had a smile on their face.  This was a great experience where I discovered the true joy that you can receive from helping people.

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