Thanksgiving Meals
How Gifting a Meal Changes Lives
Thanksgiving Meals Served to foster families
Dollars Spent Helping families in need
Over 1000 Meals Gifted so far. Let’s reach more in 2025.
“Adopt a Foster Family” Campaign
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2024 Thanksgiving Meal Delivery Recap
What an incredible Thanksgiving season! This year, our community came together in a powerful way to spread love, gratitude, and nourishment to those who needed it most. Here’s a look at the impact we made together:
🍽 172 Families Served – That’s 865 mouths fed with warm, delicious meals, lovingly prepared and delivered.
🚗 48 Delivery Volunteers – Our dedicated team of delivery drivers spent an average of 3 hours each, totaling an amazing 144 volunteer hours to ensure meals made it to every doorstep.
👩‍🍳 Cook Team Heroes – A group of 7 culinary rockstars logged an impressive 173 hours preparing over 650 dishes to feed 96 families, ensuring no one went without a full plate and a warm smile.
💖 This effort wouldn’t have been possible without the unwavering support of our volunteers, donors, and community members who gave their time, energy, and resources.
Thank you for being a part of this heartwarming tradition. Together, we made Thanksgiving brighter for so many families. đź’•
GIFT A TIMELESS MEMORY
OVER 500 FAMILIES SERVED
THE CAMPAIGN
What it is. This program reaches out to the heroes in our community who bring abused and broken children from shattered homes into their own (even if just for a short time) to give them a safe and stable place to try to be a kid again.
This program is not intended to fill a financial need. This program fills a love and compassion need. Some of these families are quite well-off financially. However, the fact that they open up their home to somebody else’s child in need is priceless.
Community feedback. Over the years, we’ve gathered feedback from the families. It is clear that providing a Thanksgiving meal helps foster parents focus on celebrating the holiday, instead of both cooking a complex meal and juggling trials and tribulations that these often unique and stressful situations require.
What we pour into these families can not come from a wallet, but from a volunteer’s heart. The big key of this outreach program surrounds the volunteers delivering to the foster family, meeting them on their turf, and being intentionally open-hearted with gratitude for their service to our community’s kids.
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HOW IT WORKS
When you choose to donate a Thanksgiving meal, this is how it will work.
- You will register to adopt one or more foster families.
- We will send you the details about the families you’ve adopted.
- You will coordinate with the family on logistics (grocery shopping/gift card, hot and ready to eat, cook ahead).
- Deliver the Thanksgiving meal to the foster family.
- BONUS: Connect for Christmas or future needs.
Tips. Some families choose to make a gift basket. Some families bring in their churches and larger groups to coordinate the experience for multiple foster families.
FAQs
When do deliveries take place?
Deliveries run from Friday before Thanksgiving up to and including Thanksgiving Day. The delivery time will be coordinated between you and your adopted family.
What is the delivery area?
Deliveries are made around the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex and surrounding areas. A full list of participating families, including their cities and zip codes, can be found here. You can choose a family or families close to you or travel else where. It’s up to you.
What is the cost of volunteering to deliver meals?
The primary costs are the gas you use and the time you invest. Catering to Love will provide all the food needed to make the deliveries. Volunteers are welcome to contribute financially as they see fit but it is not required. Gift cards are available to cover items like hams, turkeys, and other groceries.
What types of meals are delivered?
Volunteers may deliver groceries, reheatable meals, or hot meals, depending on the request of the adopted family. You can see what they chose when signing up for a family.
Are there resources available for meal shopping?
Yes, gift cards are provided upon request to purchase hams, turkeys, and other grocery items.
How do I coordinate the delivery with the family?
Shortly after you’ve signed up to adopt a family, Catering to Love will send you their contact information. You’ll connect with them directly to arrange a delivery time that works best for both of you.
Who can I contact for help or additional questions?
You can reach out directly to Catering to Love via our contact page here, phone (817) 898-1308, or email cateringtolove@foodtronix.com
Thanksgiving Stories
Thanksgiving donations add much value to each family’s Thanksgiving experience. The foster families that we have helped rave about how life-changing it is to have caring members of the community step in to help them celebrate.
Video Testimony From a Foster Mother
We need our community, not because of financial reasons, but because helping hands from our friends allow us to give the children a childhood that they don’t have or would otherwise never experience.
How You Can Change Lives on Thanksgiving
After serving over 500 foster families on Thanksgiving, Catering to Love can honestly say it’s one of our most impacting ministries. Sponsors and foster families alike experience so much joy.
A Thanksgiving My Foster Children Will Always Remember
Being able to have someone else make an amazing meal (that makes you question if you can cook or not) and then to be able to celebrate with the children changed the children’s lives.
Get In Touch
Inquire here with questions about Thanksgiving meals, community outreach, foster sponsorship, and student education opportunities.