Volunteers serve up Thanksgiving meals to hundreds at North Portland restaurant

For more than 20 years, Celebration Tabernacle Church in North Portland has made sure no one in the community faces Thanksgiving without a warm meal.

On Thursday, the non-denominational church in the Kenton neighborhood continued that goal with its annual PROPER Thanksgiving Feast-ival, serving hundreds with the help of dozens of volunteers.

PROPER — short for People Reaching Other People Expecting Restoration — is the church’s community outreach arm. The group typically hosts a large sit-down Thanksgiving banquet with live music and entertainment inside Celebration Tabernacle’s sanctuary.

But after a fire outside the church last summer, the organization shifted to providing to-go meals from Po’Shines Cafe De La Soul , the soul food restaurant the church owns next door.

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