SUNBURY, Pa. — Every Thanksgiving, you can find Rhonda Fisher in the kitchen whipping up hundreds of meals for the Sunbury Community. This year, the Sunbury Annual Free Thanksgiving Community Dinner is going to look a little different.
"We will be coming out into Cameron Park to fellowship with the community, and we'll be passing out Thanksgiving baskets and having a table with free hats and gloves and some gifts and live entertainment by our own Jesse Moore, who is a Christian singer and songwriter," said Rhonda Fisher, founder of Sunbury Annual Free Thanksgiving Community Dinner.
Instead of serving a sit down meal at the Zion Lutheran Church in Sunbury, Fisher and other volunteers will be handing out boxes filled with Thanksgiving food items.
"Will pass out everything that they need to go home and make a full course Thanksgiving meal and just be blessed with their families," said Fisher.
Along with handing out boxes filled with Thanksgiving staples, there will be free coffee, hot chocolate, donuts, and cold-weather gear.
"We're giving away Bibles, like i said hats and gloves, they'll be a table with little gifts if people need something for a stocking stuffer and then they'll have their vouchers to go to Weis Markets and get a turkey, or ham," said Fisher.
Fisher says she's very grateful for the volunteers who have helped make the Annual Free Thanksgiving Dinner possible for the past 25 years.
"I am forever grateful for everyone who has reached out and helped me keep this ministry going. I know how it is as a single mom in my past to be alone for Thanksgiving, and I didn't want this to happen with these people that you see walking the streets of the high rises that have no family," said Fisher.
The Sunbury Annual Free Thanksgiving Dinner will be held on Saturday, November 23rd, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Cameron Park in Sunbury.