Christmas Day - Meals on Wheels

NEWNAN, Ga. -- About 40 home-bound patients and the residents of the Angel House women's shelter received a hot meal on Christmas day, courtesy of parishioners from St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
More than 70 parishioners left behind their freshly unwrapped presents to meet at the church on Roscoe Road to prepare and deliver the lunch of ham, mashed potatoes, carrots, green-bean casserole, pudding, milk and juice. For more than a decade, the church has ensured that people served by the Means on Wheels program are fed when their usual volunteers take a day off.
Many of the church members make the deliveries a family tradition. Children help decorate homemade Christmas cards that accompany every meal, and teens join college students in providing levity in the kitchen.

 St. Paul's Episcopal Church members Anne Stanier and her daughter Katelyn dish up food for the Christmas Day deliveries to 40 Meals on Wheels recipients as Nick LeVan looks on. Photo by Frank Vella/St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Mark LeVan and Kathy Ellison prepare pudding packages and peppermint candies as a Christmas Day treat for more than 70 members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Newnan to deliver to 40 Meals on Wheels recipients and residents of the Angel House battered-women's shelter. Photo by Frank Vella/St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Kathy Ellison prepare pudding packages and peppermint candies as a Christmas Day treat for more  than 70 members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Newnan to deliver to 40 Meals on Wheels recipients and residents of the Angel House battered-women's shelter. Photo by Frank Vella/St. Paul's Episcopal Church

To add cheer to the Christmas Day lunch deliveries, members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Newnan made their own greeting cards by hand. Some of the card makers were Megan Masters, left, Mikayla Pape and her mother Elizabeth Pape and Sarah Crow. Photo by Frank Vella/St. Paul's Episcopal Church

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