{"id":45703,"date":"2025-11-26T23:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/45703\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T23:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:00:04","slug":"all-the-fixings-lehigh-county-church-provides-free-thanksgiving-meal-for-community-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/45703\/","title":{"rendered":"All the fixings: Lehigh County church provides free Thanksgiving meal for community | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. &#8211; A Lehigh County church is opening its doors for the community to come and enjoy a home-cooked Thanksgiving meal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers at Jordan United Church of Christ in South Whitehall Township are busy preparing to serve hundreds a homecooked meal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last night I was here, I started the first round of turkeys slow roasting over night,&#8221; said Dianne Mattias Rodriguez, organizer and church member.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Complete with all the fixings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, broccoli, what&#8217;d I forget? corn,&#8221; said LeAnn Kriner, a church member and volunteer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two dozen people came out to the church Wednesday to cook, clean, and set the table for their annual free community Thanksgiving dinner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be 65 volunteers or more tomorrow,&#8221; said Ann Royer, another church member and volunteer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving day, people can come in to enjoy good food, and even better company.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. &#8211; A Lehigh County church is opening its doors for the community to come&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-45703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-allentown-area"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}