Couple donates 1,300 pounds of turkey to Rescue Mission

YOUNGSTOWN — Jon and Jennifer Lewis of Boardman, grateful for what the Rescue Mission of Mahoning Valley did to turn around the life of their son, donated nearly 1,300 pounds of turkey to the mission for its Thanksgiving dinners.

Dhylan Spano, 19, had been kicked out of his home in North Carolina, where he lived with his mother, several times over the last two years because of his drug problems.

Spano said he was going house to house living with friends, and then, “by the grace and mercy of God,” found a ride back to Ohio with parents of a friend to

rejoin his father, Jon, a Boardman Township firefighter.

“He wanted to live with me; but he had to make some life changes first. He has since been saved,” Jon said.

Spano enrolled three months ago in the Rescue Mission’s Discipleship Academy, a 12-month program.

Jennifer, moved by the change in Spano’s life, heard the mission’s plea for 300 more turkeys and decided to do something about it.

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