. >> well, lake merritt united methodist is the church that we joined together to serving thanksgiving, about 700 folks in oakland quan niece club is in-- kuwanis is involved. open the doors on thursday and host of folks will come in. >> great. great. that is part of your ministries and you had that vision for a long time. >> yes, i transferred the ministry of prethanksgiving from church to church, the united methodist church is served and the reason that i believe god guided me into this particular ministry is because usually thursday through sunday, beginning with thanksgiving, to that sunday, there are a lot of organizations that help feed and it blesses tens of thousands of people, and so what i wanted to do was to look and say that they should be fed like this everyday, and so i moved it the sunday before when it's usually a void of that home-cooked full-fledged meal. >> i experienced a great deal of that when i was an associate. when i came over to oakland and see some of the oakland churches are doing the same ministry. >> a lot of churches do thanksgiving week grocery giveaway

. >> lake merritt united methodist is the church that we joined together to serve thanksgiving. about 700 folks. the oakland keyanis club and a host of folks will come in. >> that is part of your ministries and you had that vision for a long time. >> yes, yes, i've transferred the ministry of prethanksgiving from church to church, united methodist church is served and the reason that i believe god guided me into this particular ministry is because usually thursday through sunday, beginning with thanksgiving, through that sunday, there are a lot of organizations that help feed and it blesses tens of thousands of people, and so what i wanted to do was to look and say that they should be fed like this everyday, and so i moved it the sunday before, when it's usually a void of that home cooked full fledged meal. >> when i came over to oakland to see that some of the oakland churches are involved in doing the same kind of ministry. >> whether it is a meal and i know a lot of churches do thanksgiving week grocery giveaways, lake shore will give 75 turk keys and 75 bags of groceries to