by Darren Diekmann
Every year for the past five years Resurrection Lutheran Church puts on a community meal on the third Saturday of December as part of Joe Town Table, a monthly buffet-style meal served free to the public on the fourth Sunday of the month, except in November and December. St. Joseph Catholic Church serves the November, or Thanksgiving meal, and Resurrection serves the December or Christmas meal, on the third Saturday in December, said Angela Haynes who is on the organizational committee for the meal at Resurrection.
Resurrection coordinates with Sunrise Church in Avon who puts on a meal for that community.
“We want to do this as an outreach to the community,” Hayes said. “We go knocking on doors and get the word out that we are willing to deliver.”
Sunrise in Avon does this on the same day and also makes deliveries to that community.
The church delivered 113 meals today, Haynes said. They deliver to shut-ins who may get meals on wheels during the week, but don’t get them on the weekends.
“We deliver to anybody who contacts us,” she said. “We also made deliveries to Sauk Rapids and the east side of St. Cloud.