Annual wild game dinner draws crowd tonight to Liberty church

VIENNA

Liberty Bible Church’s annual free wild game dinner is a combination of tasty food, mostly venison meatloaf, roast, chili and stroganoff, and Lake Erie perch and familiar vegetables.

The Saturday event, which attracted more than 225 diners – about a third of those non-church members, is primarily an outreach effort as well as a novel meal, said the Rev. Allan McCracken, who founded the church 37 years ago and has been its pastor since then.

“We hope they enjoy the fellowship and come back on Sundays,” he said.

Keeping with the Christian theme, one of the speakers was the Rev. Gary Forney, hunter, fisherman, Arctic bush pilot and missionary in Canada’s Northwest Territory, now of New Philadelphia. The other speaker was Vince DeNiro, a firearms entrepreneur, who had a gun display which included assault weapons.

Read more about the speakers and the event in Sunday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.