Successful feast!

Everything went so well it was amazing. Dick and PD carved away, put offerings of dressing and other casseroles into the antiquated church ovens, and just worked like a well-organized team, with several women rapidly putting cold dishes on the serving tables that stretched from one side of the Assembly Hall to the other.

When you don't know how many folks you will be feeding, it takes lots of cooperation, but our pastor announced that our community guests would go first to the serving tables, and Rob had set out Reserved signs on 4 long tables which was perfect. The Youth Team (teens) helped the disabled, either going through the line with them, or filling plates for them and bringing them to the tables.

No one complained about the time it took for them to go first, and there was so much food, so many offerings, that we did not run out of anything. In fact, we were able to fill take-away containers to deliver to the homebound.

Our creative team decorated with pineapples and fall flowers, along with some rustic-looking fall colored signs on the wall over the groaning dessert table. Table coverings were a muted gold color with burgundy paper napkins.

We've been having this feast the Sunday before Thanksgiving for all the years we've been in this church, but today was the finest. Perhaps because we shared.