Connection Church Thanksgiving Dinners
Connection Church, Spearfish, partnered with a local grocery store, Lueders, in order to reach out in love and kindness during the Thanksgiving season. Ahead of Thanksgiving, Connection Church offered registrations so that community members could register if they needed a Thanksgiving meal. The church also advertised this outreach through local schools and social media. The Sunday after Thanksgiving, members then stayed after church to help hand out the boxes, which included turkey, sides, and dessert. The church offered this kindness outreach as a way of showing love to the community and gave cards from the church to tell people who received the boxes that they loved them. According to Pastor Jon Ballard, the church was able to distribute 50 boxes this year.