Join us for VISTE’s 28th Annual Thanksgiving Meal Delivery and help brighten the holidays for seniors in need! This family-friendly event is a local tradition and helps kick off the holiday season. There are numerous ways to participate and to help! Prior to the event we hold the Green Bean Snap and “Operation Cranberry.” In addition, local school children decorate meal bags and placemats, and others create craft items to share.

On the morning of the event, volunteers prep and pack Thanksgiving meals at the RP Funding Center in Lakeland. In the afternoon, hundreds of volunteer drivers pick up the meals, as well as a beautiful poinsettia and other treats (using convenient drive-through lanes) and deliver to grateful VISTE clients. Volunteer as a family, with friends, or with your colleagues!

Green Bean Snap
The Green Bean Snap is a family-friendly event, held at First Presbyterian Church of Lakeland each year. This year the Green Bean Snap will be held on November 25th at 9 am.

Operation Cranberry
Help provide cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving meals for local seniors in need!  14-ounce cans of cranberry sauce can be dropped off at VISTE at 1232 E. Magnolia St., Lakeland from now until November 18th Monday – Friday, 8 am to 4 pm.

THANK YOU to everyone who helps make this annual event a success, including volunteers, community and service groups, local businesses, and individual supporters – we couldn’t do it without YOU!