Stepping Out - Fighting Hunger

Another of our Step Out and Serve Projects this Discipleship Weekend was to pack meals at Kids Against Hunger.

This group packaged 15,076 meals which are destined for Haiti. Thank you for your work!

Discipleship Weekend: Kids Against Hunger

During Discipleship Weekend six teams gathered Saturday at Kids Against Hunger to pack 2,000 meals for those in need. Typically much of the meals packed would go overseas, but in this case the food was sent to pantries in Omaha and Fremont that were running low on food.

Disciples would funnel together a mixture

of vegetables, vitamins, soy and rice.

The recipients can boil the contents in water

 to provide a nutritious family meal.

The food bags are sealed, boxed

 together and ready for use.

Thank you to everyone who helped Saturday!

There were a number of projects during Discipleship Weekend. If you have pictures from another project, please email them to Deacon David.

20,000 meals could feed 120,000

Our 7th grade Confirmation students raised $5,000. This was enough to purchase enough food for 20,000 meals through Kids against Hunger. Then 130 students and parents packed the meals.

When we first talked to Kids Against Hunger about the project, they were a little reluctant. In the past other churches had had the same idea, but no one had ever made it work before. So congratulations to our seventh graders and Religious Formation staff for coming through.

Each meal contains rice, six vegetables, protein, 21 vitamins and minerals. Each bag contains six servings of the dehydrated food which, when boiled, will serve six children and provide all the vitamins and minerals they need for a day. Two thousand meals will be used in the area. Two Thousand will be reserved for emergency use when a crisis occurs somewhere. The rest of the meals will be used overseas.