For the 13th straight year, City Church provided Thanksgiving meals to members of the community.
The annual event was first held at Miss Batavia restaurant when the church bought meals for everybody who wanted one between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Now the church owns a building on Center Street, the Generations Center, with a kitchen and serves the community meal there.
The purpose of the free meal, said Pastor Marty Macdonald, is to ensure nobody need feel left out of the holiday.
"I grew up in home where it was very dysfunctional, very disjointed," Macdonald said. "Holiday times were the hardest because we had lost a sister, my brother, my dad by the time I was 13, so when holidays came it was hard on everybody. My heart was on humanity. I didn't want anybody to be alone."
Most of the volunteers are members of the church, but other community members volunteer and there were volunteers there today from Arcade and Syracuse.
"I think the people who serve get more out of it than those who are served," Macdonald said.
