{"id":58346,"date":"2025-11-20T22:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/58346\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T22:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:04:07","slug":"corpus-christi-hosting-thanksgiving-dinner-gazette-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/58346\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi hosting Thanksgiving Dinner \u2013 Gazette News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CONNEAUT \u2013 Until the COVID-19 pandemic, the Corpus Christi parish served a Thanksgiving dinner to the community. Since then, that dinner became volunteers delivering meals and serving carryout meals.<br \/>As circumstances have changed recently, the parish decided it was time to once again open up the parish hall for a Thanksgiving dinner.<br \/>\u201cWe knew there was a big need this year,\u201d Diocesan Pastoral Associate Nick Perkoski said. \u201cWe wanted to open up and do a sit-down or takeout dinner with people still delivering meals to a few homebound people.\u201d<br \/>\u201cBefore COVID, we had a sit-down dinner,\u201d Perkoski continued. \u201cSince COVID, we just delivered to those who are homebound and those who want to pick up dinners. There weren\u2019t too many, about 200. This year, we\u2019re expecting about 500.\u201d<br \/>The Community Thanksgiving Dinner will be held at Corpus Christi Parish Hall on Saturday, Nov. 22, at noon.<br \/>\u201cIt is part of our ministry to gather people together, especially those in need, though people don\u2019t have to be in need to come,\u201d Perkoski said. \u201cIt\u2019s a way to gather the community and, at the same time, feed the hungry. That\u2019s our primary goal as Catholic and Christian churches. It\u2019s our duty to do this as part of our ministry.\u201d<br \/>The church has accepted approximately 500 reservations for the meal.<br \/>\u201cWe really weren\u2019t thinking it would be this huge, but because of the government shutdown and the SNAP benefits, people have been worried about where their meals are going to come from,\u201d Perkoski said. \u201cWe took reservations and we\u2019re at nearly 500. We were expecting about 250, so we doubled it.\u201d<br \/>Volunteers have already begun preparing the meals.<br \/>\u201cThe ladies have already been cooking the turkeys,\u201d Perkoski said. \u201cThey\u2019ve shredded it and put it in pans in the freezer. We can\u2019t cook all of those turkeys at once.\u201d<br \/>Corpus Christi has received assistance from Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, the Conneaut Human Resources Center and Corpus Christi service ministry Matthew 25 in planning and preparing the meal. The Salvation Army and the Conneaut Area Ministerial Association assisted with monetary donations.<br \/>\u201cThis is a great community, a very giving community,\u201d Perkoski said. \u201cIt\u2019s a good thing that we\u2019re able to do this, to gather like this in thanksgiving for what God has given us and not only for us, but for the community.\u201d<br \/>The parish is able to host the dinner because of the generosity of its parishioners as well as the community at-large.<br \/>\u201cWe have the Matthew 25 committee, which is an organization within the parish,\u201d Perkoski said. \u201cFor the last four years, it has done a variety of different ministries for the community. Our parish is extremely generous in ongoing donations to this group. (The Matthew 25 committee) has built up quite a bit of money in preparation for this. We got a lot of donations of turkeys, as well. The people of Conneaut and this church are very giving. We\u2019ve had a ton of volunteers donate time for these types of ministries, too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CONNEAUT \u2013 Until the COVID-19 pandemic, the Corpus Christi parish served a Thanksgiving dinner to the community. 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