 Grace Community Kitchen will be celebrating their eighth anniversary with a turkey dinner Thursday, May 25th. When they began, Grace Community Kitchen served community meals once a month. They now serve over 500 meals a week. We're planning on having a huge dinner for our anniversary celebration. I don't really have anything particularly special planned on that day other than just to recognize all of our sponsors, all of our community partners. We would just want to say thank you. We deeply appreciate everything that they have done through the years to help us reach this point. We are just very thankful for the opportunity to be able to provide meals and we just plan on having a big dinner, hoping everybody will come in, hang out with us, fellowship with us, and I really would like to hear what difference coming to the Grace Community Kitchen has made, how has it helped you. I would love to have feedback so that we really have more of an understanding of the impact that we've made in cancer. It's a very scary word, but an outstanding treatment facility was here at home. I was led to the Lawson Cancer Center. As a nurse practitioner at the Lawson Cancer Center, we are champions for our patients. I am so happy for Robert. The treatment worked. Grace Community Kitchen serves meals weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays and offers food boxes, haircuts, and other services for the community. It's getting tough. We don't just have someone sleeping on the street or in the park or under a bridge coming in to eat. We see everything from someone that's elderly to someone that's young to someone that's working to someone that isn't working. So we see the whole range of people coming in to protect of our meals. And I think sometimes people come in because they like the fellowship, being able to come in with others. And that's a huge thing in our society. I mean so many people struggle with loneliness also. And to be able to come in and have meals, talk to someone else, makes a difference to their overall mental and emotional well-being. It's about the meals, but it's about the connection with our community of connecting with people and being there for them when they're going through something and they ask for a prayer for a family member, they've got an upcoming surgery or whatever it is, it's the connection because we need each other. For more information or to make a donation, go to Grace Community Kitchen on Facebook. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.