Free Christmas dinner in Beaver Falls to serve many
BEAVER FALLS – The 29th Annual Free Christmas Day Dinner & Outreach returns to Beaver Falls High School on Dec. 25.
The event annually has served 1,000 to 1,500 people, providing a Christmas meal, gifts and activities for kids, along with fellowship. The Christian Assembly Reaching Everyone (CARE) ministry at Christian Assembly Church in Beaver Falls coordinates the event.
"It's an exciting announcement since CARE Ministries was unable to have this outreach for the last two years due to COVID," Rebecca Ficca Salopek, outreach coordinator, said. "We partnered with Central United Methodist Church Community Soup Kitchen for the last two years and gave out take-out meals and Blessing Bags and served several hundred families. Yes, it was a blessing, but we could not provide what we had been able to do through all these years serving between 1,000-1,500 and giving our guests access to all new items of clothing, toys, Bibles and devotionals, resource tables with community and social service help from many agencies."
This year's event includes free Polaroid pictures with Santa Claus, The Grinch and Elves, plus craft tables for children, food bags and free raffles.
"The best part of the entire day ― besides an amazing homemade meal of turkey, ham and all the fixings including unbelievable desserts ― is the great fellowship and camaraderie that develops for individuals and families who are alone and unable to provide for themselves and their family," Salopek said.
Dinner is from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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Bus schedule
For those needing transportation to the church, a McCarter Transit bus has been procured.
Bus service pickups:
8:30 a.m., Midcrest Community Room, Midland.
8:40 a.m., Lincoln Park at Midland Avenue, Midland.
9 a.m., Women's Center, Beaver.
9:15 a.m., Linmar Terrace, Waugaman Street (top of the hill) Aliquippa.
9:20 a.m., Aliquippa Police Station, 300 Franklin Ave.
9:30 a.m., Maplewood Personal Care Home, 461 Maplewood Ave., Ambridge.
9:40 a.m., Punk's Ice Cream, Route 65, Baden.
9:45 a.m., Fox's Pizza, 799 Third Ave., Freedom.
9:50 a.m., Mental Health Association, 105 Brighton Ave., Rochester.
10 a.m., Monro Muffler, Junction Stretch, New Brighton.
10:05 a.m., American Legion, 415 13th St., New Brighton.
10:10 a.m., Snowy White Cleaners, 602 Fifth St., New Brighton.
10:15 a.m., Cornerstone Recovery and Supports, 501 Seventh Ave. (the old SeventhAvenue Hotel) Beaver Falls.
10:20 a.m., Monro Muffler, Seventh Ave., Beaver Falls.
10:25 a.m., Smith's Personal Care Home, 300 Pine St., Beaver Falls.
10:30 a.m., PRV Manor, corner of Seventh Avenue and 17th Street, Beaver Falls.
10:35 a.m., Campbell's Funeral Home, 1326 Eighth Ave., Beaver Falls.
10:40 a.m., Beaver Falls High School to drop off everyone.
10:50 a.m., Mount Washington, going up Steffen Hill at 712 12th St., Beaver Falls.
10:55 a.m., Pleasantview,16th Avenue and 16th Street, Beaver Falls.
11 a.m., Beaver Falls High School for drop off.
Free car rides to the Christmas Day dinner will be made from Harmony Dwellings and Morado Dwellings, Beaver Falls, by calling LeShaun at 718-314-9207. Call as soon as possible to schedule a ride.
For updates and more information on the dinner visit christianassemblyfamily.org
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