Food Pantry Thanksgiving 2025
Christ Church Food Pantry was pleased to have another successful Thanksgiving dinner distribution on the Monday and Tuesday of Thanksgiving week. Three shifts of five volunteers offered their welcoming smiles, energy and holiday cheer as they provided bags with all the fixings for a Thanksgiving meal to 110 individuals and families. In lieu of turkeys, clients were also given gift cards to local markets, allowing them to purchase the meat or food item of their choice. In total, we served approximately 325 individuals.
As the saying goes, it takes a village: to build the distribution plan, order and purchase the food, sponsor can drives and make financial donations, shelve donationated supplies, recruit volunteers, take orders from clients – including those with language differences, pack bags, order and keep track of gift cards, welcome dinner recipients, carry bags to cars, and clean up at the end of each day. This year, several students from CC’s church school helped pack perishables and carry bags to client cars. We welcome their participation and the assistance from their parents and look forward to other partnership projects with them in the future.
CCFP is grateful for the many wonderful financial and food donations we received during November, all of which helped with the Thanksgiving dinner distribution and will stock our shelves for the coming months. We received a generous contribution from the Plymouth Lions Club, which annually gives support to local food programs at Thanksgiving. We are also grateful for donations from the Picerne Family Foundation, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the South Shore Corvette Club, and members of Christ Church parish who made contributions specifically to support our Thanksgiving dinner project. Indian Brook and Plymouth South Elementary Schools, Congregation Beth Jacob and The Church of the Pilgrimage held can drives for the Pantry, and Gatra’s Office of Community Engagement Foundation partnered with the United Way to donate supplies to CCFP. An amazingly diverse group of organizations all of which joined with us to address food insecurity in our area.
This has been a particularly difficult year for many in our community. Prices are rising, government assistance programs have been cut, and some of our neighbors fear leaving their homes because of the threat of arrest and deportation. We are so grateful for the support of our parish, the community at large, and our many volunteers – all of whom helped CCFP provide a Thanksgiving meal to families facing such challenges. The dinner distribution serves as an important reminder of the importance of community and the blessings we are privileged to enjoy.
