Robert Keeder began organizing the downtown Columbia Catholic church's holiday lunch in 1985.
Author: Emily Correll (WLTX)
Updated: 6:24 PM EST December 24, 2020
COLUMBIA, S.C. — For 35 years, St. Peter's Catholic Church in Columbia has fed hundreds on Christmas Day.
The man behind this tradition has kept coming back to serve his community every year since 1985.
“My home and my heart is in Columbia, SC, at St. Peter’s Catholic Church," says Robert Keeder, a longtime member of the church located at 1529 Assembly Street.
“I believe, really, in a calling. I think we’re all called to do something before we die. We don’t necessarily know what it is, but eventually, you’ll come upon it and you have to recognize it."