Faces and images from the 2016 Community Christmas Dinner in Lawrence.

photo by: Peter Hancock

Greg Pelligreen of the Americana Music Academy in Lawrence entertains guests at the 23rd annual Community Christmas Dinner, including Zoella Julian, dressed as Super Girl, and her sister EilySkye Julian.

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Jim McMurray, left, Dick Grove and YaSin Baker serve up turkey and ham to guests at the 23rd annual Community Christmas Dinner at the First United Methodist Church.

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People from all walks of life line up for a traditional holiday feast at the First United Methodist Church during the 23rd annual Community Christmas Dinner.

photo by: Peter Hancock

Monika Goodwin tends to a table full of crocheted hats of all colors. The hats were donated and available to all at the 2016 Community Christmas Dinner at the First United Methodist Church.

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Volunteers worked for hours roasting and carving up turkey for the 2016 Community Christmas Dinner. Organizers said more than 700 dinners were delivered to retirement homes and individuals who could not make it to the event themselves.

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Deb Engstrom, left, organizer of the annual Community Christmas Dinner, hands out delivery assignments to volunteers who took meals to more than 700 people in Douglas County who could not make it to the event themselves.

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Hamideh Germani and her family, including her children Nora, Sadra and Emaad, have made volunteering at the Community Christmas Dinner a family tradition for the last several years.

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Beverly Billings refreshes drinks for guests at the 2016 Community Christmas Dinner at the First United Methodist Church.

photo by: Peter Hancock

Filling up boxed dinners to go and lining them up with volunteer drivers is an assembly-line process, but one that organizers of Lawrence's Community Christmas Dinner have refined to a science over the last 23 years.