(KANSAS CITY, MO) On Tuesday, November 20, 2007 approximately 250 homeless men will sit down to a Thanksgiving dinner at City Union Mission Men’s Center at 1108 E. 11th St., KCMO (10th and Troost).  The Thanksgiving dinner includes mashed potatoes, vegetables, pumpkin pie and Honeysuckle White Turkey.

Honeysuckle White donated 175 turkeys to City Union Mission as part of the company’s ongoing national campaign, More to ShareTM, to feed the hungry during the holidays.  To read more about the donation, please click here.

In addition, City Union Mission will distribute nearly 300 Thanksgiving food baskets to needy families through its Community Assistance Department. The baskets include ingredients for traditional Thanksgiving dinners, including roasting pans.

There are so many ways you and your family can partner with us this Holiday season.  For information about drives, please click here.  And for information about upcoming events, please click here.   

City Union Mission’s CELEBRATE HOPE – Reach Out to KC’s Poor and Homeless campaign is an effort to raise $3.5 million dollars, nearly half of the Mission’s annual budget, by January 30, 2007.  Tax-deductible monetary donations are greatly needed and appreciated.  For an upsate on our progress, please click here, and scroll down.