A Hampton church spent Sunday helping make the Thanksgiving holiday a little brighter for families across the community.
Greater Emmanuel Temple hosted its annual Thanksgiving giveaway, providing more than 500 turkeys and full meal baskets to households throughout the city. Bishop Michael Golden Jr., who leads the church and serves as chairman and CEO of the Get in Power Community Development Corporation, said the tradition has been going strong for more than a decade.
“For 13 years we’ve met the need,” Golden said. “We started off with 100, we moved to 200 or 300, and now we’re at over 500. This is really a challenging time, and we cannot ignore it. We are called as the church to meet people where they are.”…