Thanksgiving Morning at Living Water

Our Thanksgiving celebration at Living Water started about 2 hours before we opened our doors today. Actually, it started weeks ago! Our Food Supervisor, Gib Welch, has been bagging food for about 3 weeks--and a host of volunteers have helped. But this morning, it started with Cairl Horst & Duane Snyder making a trip to our local grocery store to get 60 more dozen eggs and 100 more packages of Brown 'N Serve rolls to round out our bags. And the work began. A team of men and women bagged food while another team of women were sorting our always burgeoning pile of clothing that's been donated. Both groups were hard at work all morning.

The line began forming as people began signing in and registering.

Everything was calm and orderly...at the beginning...


And our room began to fill with lots of little beauties!


Janice Williams, LaNell White and Sandra Keys are our faithful volunteers who register each week.


Another one of those little beauties.

These men were all hard at work in the back getting the food ready.


Em'Rynn was standing in line with his mom getting ready to come in.

Most of the people were already inside. But this line still went halfway down the street. We ended up serving 159 families today!!

It was soon "standing room only!"

Andy Coffey, from Cornerstone, was our preacher for the day. And a celebrity showed up to help! In the background on the right is Chris Brown, our favorite bass player for the Christian band, A Road Less Traveled. He stayed and helped all morning. Thanks, Chris!

I wanted you to be able to hear a little of the message that Andy Coffey brought. You can hear the challenge of preaching to a crowd that is standing room only. What a great day at Living Water. We have so much to be thankful for! And I can tell you that I'm thankful for all of the volunteers who make it happen every week. God bless you--you know who you are!!