Northwest rallies to provide Thanksgiving meals

Posted 11/26/25

Several local organizations and people worked to make sure that everyone who needed them got tasty Thanksgiving dinners.

Among them were students at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill Preschool, who held a food collection for the Germantown Avenue Crisis Ministry. School director Megan Cullen reported that they “were incredibly proud of the amount of food they were able to share with our neighbors.”

The 6th Annual “FriendsGiving” event, hosted by Anh and Anou Vongbandith of Tipsy and Das Good cafes, expected to feed some 400 people on Wednesday at the First …

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Northwest rallies to provide Thanksgiving meals

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Several local organizations and people worked to make sure that everyone who needed them got tasty Thanksgiving dinners.

Among them were students at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill Preschool, who held a food collection for the Germantown Avenue Crisis Ministry. School director Megan Cullen reported that they “were incredibly proud of the amount of food they were able to share with our neighbors.”

The 6th Annual “FriendsGiving” event, hosted by Anh and Anou Vongbandith of Tipsy and Das Good cafes, expected to feed some 400 people on Wednesday at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, with options to eat in or take out.

And at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, families and faculty continued their decades-long tradition of a school-wide Thanksgiving food drive. Baskets full of all the fixings — including 243 frozen turkeys and over 4,000 food items — were prepared and delivered to two local agencies, St. Vincent de Paul Church Food Pantry and Germantown Avenue Crisis Ministry.