By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The every other year area wide benefit for the Abbyville Community Church mission fund is Saturday.
"We've been doing this," said Mike Smith with the church. "This is our fourth time that we've done this. We started in 2015. We do it every other year, because we've had such great support, we've been able to stretch it over two years, instead of having to do it every year."
There will be some great food at the benefit, starting at 6 p.m.
"We're going to have smoked pork loin again, everybody's welcome," Smith said. "It's a freewill offering. They really don't charge anything, just a freewill offering. I think we're going to have green beans and I know last time, we had some homemade rolls. I don't know if we're going to have that again or not, but they were really good and pie. We always have pie and we have homemade ice cream for dessert."
There are also some of those legendary Abbyville pies on the silent auction going on during the dinner, plus there's a live auction at 7:30 p.m.
"We've got several things on here, we've got a chainsaw and a leaf blower, two pork halves, we've got a party for ten with food and game tickets at The Alley. We've got football tickets, other great farm, home and family items, alfalfa seed, an air fryer, we've got all sorts of things."
The mission of the benefit is to assist area neighbors if they have unexpected medical expenses, utility expenses or other emergency assistance.