SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Green Ridge Assembly of God spent Christmas Eve making sure no one in the community went without a meal.<\/p>\n
For the third year in a row, volunteers gathered bright and early to prepare a Christmas Eve takeout dinner, assembling bags filled with ham, potatoes, corn, gravy, a roll, applesauce, and cookies.<\/p>\n
More than 200 meals were prepped and packaged, continuing a tradition of giving that started with Thanksgiving dinners more than 15 years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re hoping that if it is a meal or two for them for a week, some of these people don\u2019t have meals. So, if we can help them out, it makes me feel good. It makes our group feel good. It\u2019s just a great thing to do for the community,” said Jane Ward, organizer.<\/p>\n
Church leaders say the goal is simple, making sure everyone has a meal and feels remembered this Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Green Ridge Assembly of God spent Christmas Eve making sure no one in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-69721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69721","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=69721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}