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Volunteers pack turkey dinners for military families
Updated: Saturday, 10 Nov 2012, 12:56 PM EST
Published : Saturday, 10 Nov 2012, 12:56 PM EST
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Dozens of volunteers put together Thanksgiving turkey dinners for local soldiers and their families on Saturday.
Roger Reece, Executive Pastor of Associated Churches , said the boxes contain a 12 pound turkey, potatoes, pumpkin pie, and all the fixings of a Thanksgiving dinner.
Reece said around 100 to 150 boxed dinners will be delivered to the 122d Fighter Wing of the Indiana Air National Guard, located at 3005 W. Ferguson Road on Tuesday, November 13.
Each meal will serve eight people and costs around $36. Reece said individual donations make the boxes possible each year.
"Our Military Families Ministry continues to be so important as so many soldiers re-deploy, struggle to find work at home, and simply make sense of life. We are grateful to the community for so strongly supporting this ministry," Reece, a former Army chaplain, said.
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