WHERE WILL OUR MEALS GO? National Capital warehouse shipped out to countries including Haiti, Cambodia, Panama, Nicaragua, Brazil, Liberia, Sierra Leon, and Zambia etc. Please donate generously and help us reach our goal. Please sign up to participate in the event and register for volunteer.Įach Rise Against Hunger meal package feed six (6) children and it cost only $0.33 (100 meals cost $33 or 1000 meals cost $330 only) our goal is 10,000+ meals which could potentially feed 60,000+ children. HOW CAN I HELP? More than 821 million people do not have enough to eat, join the movement to end hunger in our lifetime! Help us reach our goal to package 10,000+ meals. WHERE: National Capital Warehouse 44645 Guilford Dr., Suite 210, Ashburn, VA 20147 Ages 5 through 14 must be with adult supervision. WHO CAN PARTICIPATE? Anyone age 5 and up. WHAT IS A MEAL PACKAGING EVENT? The goal of the meal packaging is to combine nutritious ingredients, sealing the individual packages, and boxing the sealed packages for thousands of meals to be sent to hunger-ravaged parts of the world. RAH’s meal packaging program provides volunteers the opportunity to package dehydrated, high protein, and highly nutritious meals that are used in crisis situations and in school feeding programs for school and orphanage in developing countries around the world. Rise Against Hunger is an international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food around the world. Members on the ministry team are Barb Bakke, Kim Morris, Nancy Anderson, Tammi Dahlman, Ginny Fiedler, Jon Young, Sorenson, and Semke.YES, the opportunity to do a good deed is just popped up for all of us. The social ministry team’s mission statement is to “extend compassion and helpfulness to the ill, the aged, the orphaned, the underprivileged, the imprisoned, and in general to persons of all ages in need of aid in body and soul.” “You don’t have to be from our church,” Semke said. She is hoping to have at least 200 adults and children involved including church and community members.
Semke has even contacted two news stations for the event, hoping to get some coverage of this two-block-long human chain. The social ministry thought it was a great idea and decided to run with it. Semke, whose mother, Isabelle Mattson, is co-director of the food shelf, was talking about the food shelf when she said, “It just hit me.” The members were looking for ways to reach out to the community and get people together working for one cause.īecky Sorenson suggested the group pray about it and see what God laid on their hearts. The idea came after a social ministry meeting. 23, and will continue until the day of the event.ĭepending on the weather and how much food is collected, a “symbolic” amount of food will be passed, according to Carol Semke, ministry member and project leader.įollowing the event, a hot meal will be served for those participating.
The church began collecting food shelf items Nov. Participants will then pass collected food shelf items from person-to-person until the items reach the food shelf. 7 following the church’s Sunday School Christmas program.Ĭhurch and community members are invited to stand in a line extending from the church (corner of Third Street and Lee Avenue) to the Cokato Area Food Shelf, located on Broadway and Fourth Street. Sponsored by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cokato’s social ministry committee, the event will take place at approximately noon Sunday, Dec. Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cokato hosts first-ever Hands Against Hunger event with human chain from church to food shelfĬOKATO, MN - Community members will join hands to form a human chain around the block Sunday to help fight hunger in the first-ever Hands Against Hunger.
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