{"id":63531,"date":"2025-11-28T15:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/63531\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T15:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:17:06","slug":"this-ministry-served-nearly-1500-thanksgiving-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/63531\/","title":{"rendered":"This ministry served nearly 1,500 Thanksgiving meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014 More than 100 volunteers helped members of <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mustardseedslc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mustard Seed Ministries<\/a> in Fort Pierce on Thursday prepare nearly 1,500 Thanksgiving meals.<\/p>\n<p>The holiday feast happened in front of St. Anastasia Catholic School.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH THE REPORT BELOW: <\/p>\n<p>Mustard Seed Ministries serve nearly 1,500 Thanksgiving meals in Fort Pierce<\/p>\n<p>Meals included mashed potatoes, corn, gravy and more. Members of the St. Lucie County Fire District also offered a helping hand, cooking more than 100 turkeys.<\/p>\n<p>With rising food calls, Stephanie Kingsbury with Mustard Seed Ministries said food insecurity is a major problem in St. Lucie County.<\/p>\n<p>But Kingsbury said everyone deserves a Thanksgiving meal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think this gives people the opportunity to provide that for their families if they cannot, and also for those who don&#8217;t have anywhere to go. If their families are not local and they&#8217;re alone, then they&#8217;re still deserving of a special meal,&#8221; Kingsbury said.<\/p>\n<p>Meals were handed out from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014 More than 100 volunteers helped members of Mustard Seed Ministries in Fort Pierce on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3886,38083,171,173,172,1402,1189],"class_list":["post-63531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-fort-pierce","tag-mustard-seed-ministries","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st-lucie-county","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}