 If you want to spend some time giving back this holiday season, the Community Christmas Meal in Bemidji is still in need of volunteers. This will be the 39th annual Community Christmas Meal in Bemidji. It rotates between six churches in the area and this year it will be held at Bethel Lutheran Church. Community meals are the perfect way to get to know your neighbors. Whether you choose to volunteer or just enjoy the dinner, the meal will usually serve around 500 people and right now they have only 70 volunteers. We have so far about 75 volunteers but takes a lot of people to get up to 500 meals served whether it be at the church that day or delivered. So we'd be glad for everyone to think about maybe paying it forward a little bit. Maybe you can start a new family tradition and help us as we try to bring the community together. Now volunteers can be of all ages. Some families choose to volunteer together. There's also a wide variety of roles a volunteer can take including making deliveries, serving, and working in the kitchen. The meal will include a ham dinner with all the trimmings including potatoes, coleslaw, corn, Christmas cookies. We try to make it as nice as possible. That's why we need so many volunteers. That day we have the people sit and then volunteers bring them their meals. So I think that's kind of nice to be able to sit and have somebody wait on you. The community dinner will go from noon until 1 30 on Christmas Day. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.