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Photos submitted Volunteers at the 2018 Thanksgiving Dinner put on by Love Him Love Them Ministry serve food.
The Love Him Love Them Ministry in Lavonia needs volunteers to help with its 5th Annual Thanksgiving Dinner.
This year, the ministry will deliver food to more than 2,000 individuals who are homeless or homebound in Franklin, Stephens and Hart counties.
Volunteers are needed to help organize requests, prepare and deliver the food, and clean up at the end of the day. They will have an informational meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 26, at 6:30 p.m. at the Boyd Outz Family Learning Center, 84 Hartwell Road in Lavonia. If you cannot donate your time, you can purchase food, donate food, cook food, or donate goods (blankets, towels, coats, jackets, household items, etc.)
“Five years ago, after spending four days cooking to prepare for my family of six, we sat down and ate it in 10 minutes, and there were mounds and mounds of food left. It just really irritated me,” Co-founder of Love Him Love Them Ministry Linda Gunter said. “We took all the leftovers and we made them up into 11 plates. We went out into the community ourselves and we delivered into the housing projects to people who weren’t celebrating thanksgiving.”
Gunter said they have doubled the amount of meals they have delivered every year.
“Love Him Love Them is a non-profit and our job is to give hope, touch lives, and change hearts. This is an opportunity for us to bring churches, individuals, and corporations together where there’s not any competition,” Gunter said. “We can come together as a community as a whole, ministries, churches, everyone, to serve those who are here.”
Individual or corporate donations are welcome as well.
• $20 Donation means a Meal for 1
• $50 Donation gives a Family a Meal
• $100 Donation gives a Family a Meal & groceries
• $250 Donation gives a Family a Meal/groceries and necessities (THIS AMOUNT or more also gets your Name or Company Name on our Volunteer T-Shirt worn by over 250 Volunteers), in addition with being placed on the box with every meal delivered.
$500 Donation gives a Family a Meal/groceries/household goods and coats, for a Family of 4
$1,000/2,000 Donation gives them all of the above and money for utility payments & rent
$5,000 Sponsor Event (provides turkeys and all products needed for meals)
For questions or more information, contact Linda Gunter at 706-599-7525 or Lisa M. Welshman at 508-410-9318.