Thanksgiving Community Meal

A Butler Churches’ Tradition for More Than Two Decades

Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019 * Noon to 1pm

St. Peter Catholic Parish Hall * 127 Franklin St. * Butler

To RSVP for sit-down dinner, request a takeout meal, or request delivery:

Email ButlerThanksgiving@gmail.com or text or call 724-427-4153 by 5pm on Sunday, Nov. 24

     For more than 20 years, Butler area churches have provided free Thanksgiving meals to anyone who asked. In 2018, volunteers provided over 1,600 meals!

    St. Peter’s Catholic Church’s hall is the place to go for a sit-down or takeout dinner. Volunteers also worked out of St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church’s parish hall to deliver 1,200-plus meals to about 300 homes last year.

    Meals on Wheels recipients and seniors living in local high-rises were among the recipients.

Food Donations Needed for Thanksgiving Community Meal
 

     Thanksgiving Community Meal collection boxes are in the vestibules of our five parishes.
    Please place boxed stuffing (like Stovetop), canned jellied cranberry sauce, canned green beans in the bins. Donations of these items and frozen turkeys (18-22 lbs) also may be dropped off at St. Peter’s Hall from 8am to 4pm every day of the week until Sunday, Nov. 24.

     Dinner rolls and desserts may be dropped off at St. Peter’s Hall on Monday, Nov. 25, from 8am to 4pm.

Monetary Donations Needed 
 

Monetary donations are greatly appreciated. Please make checks out to St. Peter Church. You can mail / drop off donations at the St. Peter office at 127 Franklin St., Butler, PA 16001. Also, you can drop them in the collection basket at any of our parishes - please put them in an envelope marked “Thanksgiving Community Meal”. 

Volunteers Needed - Call 724-427-4153
 

Now through Thanksgiving Week  - Volunteers are needed to take phone calls, confirm reservations,

and enter info into a web-based spreadsheet.
 

Monday, Nov. 25 6 -7:30pm—Transport items for delivered meals from St. Peter to St. Michael Hall
 

Wednesday, Nov. 27 6am—Cook turkeys at St. Michael Parish Hall

Noon—Debone turkeys and begin prepping delivery meals at St. Michael Hall

4:30pm—Prepare cold takeouts at St. Michael Hall

6pm—Set up St. Peter’s hall for dining-in on Thanksgiving
 

Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28  8am–Cook at St. Peter’s Hall & St. Michael’s Hall

8:45am—Prepare and pack meals for delivery from St. Michael Hall

10am—Set up St. Peter Church Hall, prep and serve dinners

10:30am—Drivers to deliver meals from St. Michael Hall

(for safety purposes, at least 2 people deliver)

10:30am—Clean up St. Michael’s Hall

11am to 1pm—Plate & serve meals at St. Peter’s Hall & visit with diners