Fayetteville: Ways To Give Back On Thanksgiving

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

October 30th 3:28 PM

By this weekend (11/2-3), Halloween 2024 has come and gone. We’ve eaten all the treats we’ve endured the tricks and put our costumes away for next year. It’s time to turn our focus to the next holiday, the Thanksgiving holiday, which falls this year on November 28.

Giving Back

Over the years, as my kids were growing up, my husband and I always wanted to teach them to give back. We’ve done the angel tree and we’ve searched for ways on Thanksgiving Day that we as a family could go help someone in need. Because so many churches donate their time on Thanksgiving, many of the places where they serve food have been booked up, but now that November is beginning and we’re just a couple of days after Halloween, it may be a good time to make arrangements for Thanksgiving and maybe sign up to help the homeless and helping those in need during Thanksgiving Day.

Being Thankful

So after we all went around the table telling each other what we are thankful for this year, we looked around and we found out that right here in Fayetteville, there are many ways that you can give during the Thanksgiving holiday to help those in need and spread some cheer as we get right into the holiday season.

Operation Turkey

Operation Turkey provides Thanksgiving meals, clothing, and toiletries to the homeless and less fortunate in Fayetteville and 29 cities nationwide.

Spring Lake, NC · Raeford, NC · Hope Mills, NC · Fayetteville, NC

(682) 226-2724

[email protected]

Highland Presbyterian Church

Thanksgiving Day Meal at Highland Presbyterian Church
Sign up to sponsor a meal (or parts of it) or sign up the whole family for a variety of duties on Thanksgiving day and the days before the event.

Meals on Wheels

Meals on Wheels: Deliver meals to people in need.

Salvation Army

Salvation Army: Volunteer to serve meals, organize events, or help with donation drives. You can also adopt an angel or silver bell to provide gifts to children and seniors.

Thanksgiving Dinner Scavenger Hunt

Search for six Thanksgiving dinner items hidden around the children’s area. Pick up a scavenger hunt sheet at the children’s service desk, find all six objects, and return the sheet for a free sticker.

The program runs November 1-30.

For more information about this program, please call (910) 483-7727 ext. 1450.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.