Hundreds turn out at Christ Community Church to help pack meal bags for Feed My Starving Children; the church's goal is to pack 1 million meals over several weekends.
Willing hands and joyful heart were the order of the day, and hairnets were the head gear du jour Saturday at Christ Community Church, 37W100 Bolcum Road, where volunteers gathered in shifts to put together meal packages to feed starving children around the world. They came in family groups, neighborhoods groups, clubs and even school groups — a contingent from St. Charles East was there for part of the day — working in two-hour shifts to pack as many meals as possible to feed starving children around the world. Feed My Starving Children, the agency that runs the program and distributes the food, says there is more than enough food being produced into the world today to ensure that no on goes hungry, yet 1 billion do. When they arrived, …
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Church on the West Side of St. Charles to pack 1 million meals for starving children.
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
Christ Community Church, 37W100 Bolcum Road, (http://ccclife.org/) will partner with Feed My Starving Children to host a series of “MobilePack” events in November, where volunteers will work together to pack 1 million meals for hungry children around the world. The MobilePack events will take place across all four Christ Community campuses on the following days: “We are very excited to be partnering with Feed My Starving Children,” said Larry Stratton, director of community impact for Christ Community Church. “We hope to have 5,000 volunteers from the church and the community banding together to express God’s love in a very tangible way.” At the Feed My Starving Children MobilePack events, kids and adults alike have the memorable …
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