LEXINGTON, Ky. – Crossroads church is helping to provide as many as 100,000 people with a full plate on Thanksgiving.
"Serving is in their DNA,” says Lexington's Crossroads church leaders who are sealing boxes for their annual thanksgiving food drive with community partners and volunteer food collecting service, God’s pantry food bank.
For over 26 years, Crossroads Church has brought a new perspective to Lexington's faith community. Crossroad’s site team leader Bryan Carter said “To do church the way we feel like his house is impactful matters by being a very big part of the community, so we’d love to get out there and do things for our community.”
He says giving food at this time of the year is an essential part of memory-making. “I think all of us can think back to some of the most important times in our life happening around the kitchen table and where community happens where families get together and talk as we just want to make sure that everybody in our community can have that decorated food on thanksgiving,” Carter said.
Members of Crossroads and others in the community are providing some of the holiday favorites for an ideal Thanksgiving feast. Some of those items include vegetables, ingredients for stuffing, cranberries and a turkey as the centerpiece.
Dozens of prepped boxes aligned the back of the parking lot, ready to be unboxed for the big day. Carter says after each of the items that are listed are checked off, the boxes are sealed for the box trucks, which are scheduled to take these boxes right to the community.
“Go out to families and or partners today by the end of this afternoon and all this will be dropped off, but everything is coming in now as are people dropping off that is part of the Crossroads Lexington community,” Carter said.
He says the day of service brings families closer. “We love to have all of our families involved it is a great opportunity for parents and kids to come out here and to serve with one another. There are not a lot of opportunities in our culture today where kids and adults get to be together, and I think it’s a great way for parents to show that this world and this community — it’s about serving others and being there for other people,” Carter said.
Along with God’s Food pantry for the Thanksgiving food drive, Crossroads works with leading organizations like the Lexington Rescue Mission, local schools and others for more charitable opportunities.
The annual event also takes place across parts of Ohio like Columbus, Cincinnati and Dayton.