Mission Arlington® is getting ready for Thanksgiving morning. Last year, 26,000 people (about 5,200) families received Thanksgiving food from here. Thanksgiving delivery begins on Thanksgiving morning, November 27th, about 8:00 a.m., and ends by noon on the same day.

It takes 5,200 turkeys, and 5,200 boxes filled with Thanksgiving food to make that day work for the people.  In the weeks before Thanksgiving, volunteers help Mission Arlington® get ready. Unsorted food has to be separated; Thanksgiving boxes (everything in it for a Thanksgiving meal except for the turkey) need to be built and filled, and everything needs to be put in place in anticipation of Thanksgiving morning.

Today, hundreds of students are here of all ages.  From the student council of Goodman Elementary, to the Middle School from Coble High School in Mansfield, to the Mansfield High School Key Club, to UTA and TCU students, hundreds of young people are here helping us get ready.  What an incredible day!

It is truly fun to watch the assembly lines at work.  Flat boxes are taped into shape.  These empty boxes are passed along a line, filling up with a variety of food items, then they are taped shut.  From there, another assembly line of students shuttles the boxes into a building a block away.  Hundreds of boxes filled with Thanksgiving food, if not more than a thousand, will be built today.  We are well on our way to Thanksgiving.

How is it possible to express our thanks to you, the generous people of this community, who surround this place with loving arms, just so that someone in need will have a good thanksgiving meal? We are humbled and inspired by your faithful generosity.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. May our Lord bless each of you who so faithfully give, pray, and help.  You are making a difference here.