MADISON – The first planning meeting for the 2013 Community Thanksgiving Dinner will be held Oct. 1 at 6:30 p.m. at Inside-Out Ministries, 103 Gin Oaks Court.

Deborah Ward sorts food items at Inside-Out Ministries. (CONTRIBUTED)

“The community dinner is a wonderful time of celebration. Volunteers and churches from the whole community are involved and many are being fed — body and soul,” Inside-Out co-founder Deborah Ward said. The dinner will be held on Nov. 27.

For more information, call Eric Kile at 256-325-5193, email to IOM.Thanksgiving.Volunteer@gmail.com or visit inside-outministries.org.