 On Thursday, December 21, Pikeville Community Kitchen embraced the spirit of Christmas by giving away food bags and toys at the Pikeville United Methodist Church. Hundreds of toys and over 1,000 food bags were given away to Pikeville residents to help make everyone's Christmas a little better. This is the sixth year the community kitchen has held this charitable event. It's been great. We have tried our hardest to work with all of our sponsors and bring everyone together and have enough for everybody to go around. And it's just a pleasure that we're able to do it every year. This makes our sixth year of doing our big Christmas giveaway. We have over 500 toys and we have 1,000 bags of food that we're handing out today. And we're just so happy we're able to do it. Everyone who stopped by for food and toys left satisfied. Members of the community kitchen are glad to be able to give back to the public. We're being Jesus's hands and feet and we're happy to do it. Jesus is the reason for the season and we try to spread that across to everyone that we see here today and know that they're loved and cherished and to have a merry Christmas and we know how it is when people don't have a lot for Christmas and this is just a way that we can help and we're happy to do it. Every single person we see here today has had a smile on their face and we're just happy that we're able to provide that to them. And honestly, we feel thankful to have them come and help us out and be here and us being able to give to them. It's definitely a blessing to us so we can be a blessing to them and that's why we do it every year. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Colum.