TAMPA, Fla. — Special meals are being served on Christmas Day across the Bay area.

Metropolitan Ministries has been hard at work prepping and serving 1,000 community Christmas meals today.

What You Need To Know

  • Metropolitan Ministries serving holiday meals in Tampa and Pasco County 

  • Volunteers are delivering hundreds more holiday meals to people across the Bay area

  • MORE INFO: Metropolitan Ministries meal locations  

At the Met Ministries kitchen in Tampa, crews worked with an assortment of equipment to prepare huge amounts of food – from ham and potatoes, to dinner rolls and desserts.

Most importantly, though, is the staff and volunteers all working to make this happen.

All totaled, during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, Metropolitan Ministries serves  as many as 30,000 families in need with holiday meals.

In Tampa, meals are bring served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Portico Café at 1001 N. Florida Ave.

In Pasco County, meals are being served from noon to 2 p.m. at the Healing Hearts Café at 6436 12th Street in Zephyrhills.

Along with all of the hot meals they’re preparing in Tampa, Metro Ministries volunteers will be handing out meals in neighboring counties, including 100 meals in Pasco County and more than 200 in Pinellas County.