Last night, I took a group of middle school students to a local ministry called Kids Against Hunger. KAH runs a very simple operation, but it really struck a chord with our students last night. Our job was to fill small bags with a scoop of soy, a tablespoon of dried vegetables, a protein/vitamin pellet, and a scoop of rice. When prepared, these bags yield six servings. These servings, however, will likely be the only meal the recipients eat each day. We worked for about an hour and a half and assembled roughly 500 bags (over 3,000 meals). The teens enjoyed the work and kept asking if we could come back next week.
Simple ingredients poured into a small bag won’t end global hunger, but it’s a start. To me, it was a significant experience to see a group of eight middle schoolers joyfully working to assemble as many meals as they could so that fewer people would go hungry. In a small deed done with great love, they got a taste of kingdom work, and they left wanting more.
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“It’s extraordinary to me that the United States can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can’t find $25 billion dollars to save 25,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases.”
- Bono, (Source: The American Prospect blog)
GOod post. Glad you are board here in the Ozarks.