{"id":15670,"date":"2019-11-29T01:04:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T06:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=15670"},"modified":"2019-11-29T01:04:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T06:04:02","slug":"brick-churchs-hundreds-of-volunteers-prepare-deliver-1200-thanksgiving-dinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2019\/11\/brick-churchs-hundreds-of-volunteers-prepare-deliver-1200-thanksgiving-dinners\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Church&#8217;s Hundreds of Volunteers Prepare, Deliver 1,200 Thanksgiving Dinners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"v-raMbHXIl-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='1000' height='562' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/raMbHXIl?hd=1&cover=1&loop=0&autoPlay=0&permalink=1&muted=0&controls=1&playsinline=0&useAverageColor=0&preloadContent=metadata' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/video\/assets\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js'><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The organizers behind Epiphany Roman Catholic Church\u2019s annual Thanksgiving Feast broke their own record Thursday, organizing hundreds of volunteers to prepare and deliver more than 1,200 full Thanksgiving dinners.<\/p>\n<p>The meals, complete with soup, turkey, the trimmings and desert, were prepared, sorted, plated out and delivered by members of the parish, located in Brick\u2019s Herbertsville section.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Hermida, who, along with her husband, Bob, organizes the entire event every year, said she believes it is the 20th anniversary \u2013 but the number isn\u2019t as important as its growth and the number of people the church can reach each Thanksgiving Day. The church partners with Ocean County\u2019s Meals on Wheels program and also delivers to a number of senior citizen apartment complexes and organizations such as Dottie\u2019s House, a home for women and children who were victims of domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could be a few more, but I remember up to 20,\u201d said Hermida, as the line of dozens of vehicles outside the church stretched through the parking lot and volunteers diligently worked on an assembly-line style operation inside \u2013 cooking, dishing out food, making up plates and packing dinners in bags with colorful decorations made by the parish\u2019s children.<\/p>\n<p>Hermida said volunteers delivering meals to seniors in Brick and other local communities not only brought food, but good company, on the holiday. Some watched the parade together, and some just chatted and provided some companionship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many great stories come out of this every year,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2019\/11\/brick-churchs-hundreds-of-volunteers-prepare-deliver-1200-thanksgiving-dinners\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organizers behind Epiphany Roman Catholic Church\u2019s annual Thanksgiving Feast broke their own record Thursday, organizing hundreds of volunteers to prepare and deliver more than 1,200 full Thanksgiving dinners. The meals, complete with soup, turkey, the trimmings and desert, were prepared, sorted, plated out and delivered by members of the parish, located in Brick\u2019s Herbertsville [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,84,614],"class_list":["post-15670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-epiphany-parish","tag-thanksgiving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_1867-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-44K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}