Our pastor told us last Sunday that the next Sunday would be a church service you'd never experienced before. And he was right! We woke up this morning and I told Kent that today was going to be different. He's not one to love change. So he was a little hesitant. We were welcomed in the parking lot by a bunch of greeters in red shirts. When we got intside, they had the big youth/kid room set up with tables and people were gathered in ther around the tables with hair nets on. We were about to do some physical labor!
The organization "Stop Hunger Now" works with feeding the hungry. Our church helps out with Nicaragua and raised a LOT of money to send meals over there. This morning our church service was dedicated to filling rice bags and packaging them. We ended up packaging up 290,000 meals!!!! WOW! I have never been a part of something like this and I will say, I choked back tears multiple times while we were packing the rice. I'm not sure if you remember a few posts back where I mentioned I wanted to feed the hungry. I told Kent this was a start! We worked the loading station. We took the packaged rice and boxed them up. One of the guys in our group went around to the tables collecting buckets full of packaged rice and ran them to us. I'm telling you, this event was awesome. God is great. 290k meals! Amazing.
I snapped a picture and video of the whole process. It was definitely a church service I had never witnessed before! <3
3 comments:
Very cool. I think about Nicolle and her huge heart, reading this!
What a great Sunday!
Adopting and feeding two children through church was one of our best decisions.
That is soooooo awesome and beautiful!!!! :)
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