That total is similar to the number who were served past year.
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With more than 800 visitors at the Durham Rescue MIssion’s Thanksgiving celebration, an army of volunteers is necessary to pull off the event. “They are probably in plain sight, but you don’t realize the level of the issue until you have an event like this”.
Denny said the goal of More than a Meal is to go beyond a traditional meal and begin to help meet the basic needs of the homeless population. “And it’s good for them to have a good place to sleep just like us”, said Sydney.
The effort was part of the Fill-A-Box to Feed a Family event.
On Wednesday, he returned to the mission with his 6-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son to serve free Thanksgiving meals to the homeless and others in the community.
“We cooked 400 pounds of whole turkeys and 300 pounds of dark meat, which comes out to about 60 pans of turkey”, said George Fisher, Executive Chef, AC Convention Center.
The different Rescue Mission outreach programs all work together to register people for their holiday meals, and Cooney said it’s not just a meal they’re hoping to offer for Thanksgiving.
The restaurant at 4544 South Blvd. will give away the meals from 11 a.m.to 3 p.m.to people in need and to travelers.
After the meal, volunteers would fan out across Durham to deliver Meals on Wheels to the homebound so they could share in the bounty.
The last bagged meal was handed out at about 1 p.m., Layden said. “We have a lot of younger children that stay in our shelters, but in the families that we help in the community have a lot of teenagers”.
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“I just hear so many stories about how this blesses them and how they weren’t able to put food on the table without this so and I just think it’s a great thing”, Michelle Davis said.
