{"id":7021,"date":"2015-11-27T01:18:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T06:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=7021"},"modified":"2015-11-27T01:19:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T06:19:26","slug":"brick-township-church-feeds-over-1000-on-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/11\/brick-township-church-feeds-over-1000-on-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Township Church Feeds Over 1,000 On Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QSrzGW2Is20?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Volunteers at Epiphany Parish in Brick Township prepared, delivered and served over 1,000 Thanksgiving meals Thursday in an annual event that involves hundreds of local residents pitching in to make Thanksgiving brighter for their neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>For 18 years, the church has delivered meals to homebound residents in local communities. The church partners with Ocean County Meals on Wheels and delivers to homebound senior citizens in Brick, Toms River, Seaside Heights and other local communities, and this year partnered with Original Leisure Village in Lakewood to deliver meals to the community\u2019s club house. The organizers of the event also worked with volunteer nurses at Meridian Health to deliver meals to recently-released hospital patients who are still recovering and need to remain home on Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe deliver our meals the day before, but there\u2019s nothing like getting a nice, home-cooked dinner on Thanksgiving Day,\u201d said Jim Sigurdson, director of Ocean County Meals on Wheels.<\/p>\n<p>The church also provides meals to local shelters, including Dottie\u2019s House, a shelter for battered women and their children in Ocean County.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Hermida, the lead organizer of the annual effort \u2013 which is in its 18th year \u2013 said 965 meals were delivered by volunteer drivers, with limousines picking up some of the more than 200 guests who came at 1 p.m. Thursday for a sit-down dinner in the church\u2019s all-purpose room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should be a nice time for all,\u201d Hermida said, before the feast got started.<\/p>\n<p>The number of volunteers, from cooks, to butchers, to packers and drivers, was in the hundreds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/11\/brick-township-church-feeds-over-1000-on-thanksgiving\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers at Epiphany Parish in Brick Township prepared, delivered and served over 1,000 Thanksgiving meals Thursday in an annual event that involves hundreds of local residents pitching in to make Thanksgiving brighter for their neighbors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7022,"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":false,"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":[24,84,634,1795],"class_list":["post-7021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-epiphany-parish","tag-meals-on-wheels","tag-thanksgiving-2015"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_4723.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1Pf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021","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=7021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}