Thanksgiving 2011

Thanksgiving at Living Water begins weeks before the Friday we give out the food.

It begins with lots of volunteers packaging food for us.

It comes in one Bag of Blessing at a time by people in our community.

Volunteers spent weeks collecting boxes for us to use for our frozen food we gave away.

But this morning, boxes lined up from one end of the food room...

to the other end of the food room!

Cairl, our food room director, gave out directions early this morning.

And then George and Micah went and picked up the turkeys.

Volunteers gathered early this morning to pray over our morning.

We wanted everyone who came to be blessed.

Stephanie Spangler and Walgreens blessed us with free flu shots!

Lots of people took advantage of those free flu shots.

As we began our service, we asked for people to share what they were thankful for.

Then Mrs. Phyllis taught us all how to say "God is love" in sign language. It was beautiful to watch!

Here's Mrs. Phyllis signing as Thomas sings.

Dwight Kirksey, pastor of Celebration Family Church in Fritch, blessed us with a message this morning.

He told us about a cross he received for Christmas one year.

After the service, we began giving out the holiday groceries to about 120 families.

It was well organized and people didn't have to wait long.

We have some happy volunteers---they love blessing others!

And we had some new volunteers this morning. We're always excited about that!

We just can't believe Thanksgiving has come and gone at Living Water. We want to thank everyone who participated--either by giving a Bag of Blessing or volunteering. It was a great day!