Annual Church Turkey Dinner

Every year our church puts on a huge Turkey Dinner. This is a big fundraiser for the church and everyone in the church gets involved.

The kids in the youth group will be busing tables all night. Some people will be in the kitchen, others serving food and others cleaning up. Along with the food with be handmade items from the ladies of the church for sale and other trinkets.

Since the first year that we have attended St. Paul UMC and been part of the Turkey Dinner, it has felt like the warmest and most comforting place to be. Each year, no matter how bad I feel, I look forward to this day. Tonight I know I will eat good food, cooked by loving hands of the women of the church, and sit among those that care the most about me and share the meal and the fellowship and the time together.

I am blessed that our church has this tradition.  Last year my son was in the Youth Group and bused tables, and although he complained on the way there, I know he had a good time and enjoyed some of the older people of the church that you don't see as often.  This year he will again bus tables, but my daughter will join him. She has a servants heart and I know she will enjoy this and talk with all the older people she can during her time.

In the hustle of our lives these days we forget to take the time to serve others and to remember to honor those who came before, our elders. I am blessed to have a church that takes the time to remember those things and helps me to teach those lessons to my children.

Off to eat turkey and clean the kitchen!