The Midland Soup Kitchen Ministry hosted its annual Thanksgiving dinner Nov. 22 after it was forced to cancel the event last year because of COVID-19.
"Right now, we're getting back to normalcy," Nancy Ivy, founder of Soup Kitchen Ministry, told NewsWest 9. “It's a wonderful feeling, we're having our Thanksgiving lunch that we didn't have last year. We serve over 400 to 500 people, maybe 600, it all depends on the crowd. We serve my dad's homemade stuffing."
The ministry spent all weekend preparing the meal, which included 35 turkeys, the story said.
Hundreds of volunteers helped, CBS 7 reported.
“I wanted to show an example to our kids and I thought what a better way than a serving the community we live in?" volunteer Nadia Urias told the station. "We’re just so grateful and thankful to God that we can be here.”
The ministry has been putting on a Thanksgiving meal for 30 years.
“We want to continue the ministry and keep going," Ivy told CBS 7. "You can see the smiles on people’s faces, they were waiting for this. We take advantage of all this, of all the people that come in here to tell them about Jesus and if we have to feed their bellies, which the Lord did, that’s okay, I’m more than happy to do it."
The ministry also prepares a Christmas meal and will now start preparing for that.