Port Arthur church offers curbside Thanksgiving to community

A church community in Port Arthur, literally, went 'outside of the box' for its Thanksgiving celebration this afternoon.

If you ever wanted to see outreach in action.. on Thursday, you would have found it on the corner of Gulfway Drive and Memorial in Port Arthur.

"The atmosphere, it just gets more intense, the joy of it," said Pastor Raymond Washington.

'Serving' to the beat of their own drum, members of Christ Temple New Life Ministries turned the tables on Thanksgiving this year, and went to the community to help.

"Washington said, "It's showin' the people that it's time that we come out of the walls and just make ourselves available to the people."

The volunteers offered free meals, along with children's clothes and toiletries to anyone in need, like Jasmine Dennis.

She said, "You don't see too many groups out like them, doing stuff like this so I think everybody's appreciative of that."

Washington said, "This is the way I feel we all should celebrate Thanksgiving by being thankful for one another and showing our love to one another."

And the community agrees. One by one, they came to collect, to chat, and to offer thanks.

Washington said, "Thank you, thank you and that's what it's all about."