‘Operation Jesus Feed’ celebrates 30 years
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Berean Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Uniontown held its annual Operation Jesus Feed in November, offering takeaway food instead of its traditional sit-down dinner.
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84 Lumber donated 84 turkeys to Operation Jesus Feed at Berean Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Uniontown.
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Berean Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Uniontown distributed 120 turkeys and 120 boxes of food during Operation Jesus Feed.
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Gateway Health set up tents during Operation Jesus Feed at Berean Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Uniontown, offering health care-related information.
The Berean Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 95 Searight Ave., Uniontown celebrated 30 years of 鈥淥peration Jesus Feed鈥� this past November.
The program is the church鈥檚 annual Thanksgiving dinner for the community.
Due to COVID-19, the dinner was held as a takeout meal instead of the traditional sit-down dinner. The church distributed 120 food baskets and 120 turkeys during the effort, an increase from the 100 of each they typically give out as part of the program.
The church also set up a tent where guests could look through hundreds of donated clothes and take what they wanted.
Businesses in the area donated food, dinnerware, money and turkeys, including 84 Lumber, which sponsored 84 turkeys.
Volunteers were led by Karen L. Nelson
The distribution came just weeks before Lucille Colbert, who was there at the start of 鈥淥peration Jesus Feed,鈥� passed away at age 96. Colbert was in charge of the kitchen and food preparation at the outset of the program.