Food For Children
Mobile Packaging - Coming to Canton, OH
February 11 - 13, 2009
Registration Due December 23, 2009
Registration Form pdf
HSM's Food For Children, First Friends
Church, and Malone University are partnering to feed starving children in
Burkina Faso, West Africa. You can be a part of this exciting event.
What is a mobile packaging?
At our Heaven Sent
Ministries facility in Princeton, WV, we have an area where we package this
fortified food, box it up and ship it to various countries throughout the
world. With a mobile packaging, we take this process on the road so we
can package a large amount of food in a short period of time.
How do I get involved?
To sign up, contact Carol
Gresham at First Friends Church (330) 966-2800.
If you are a Malone University student, faculty or staff member, contact Mark
Bankert - Associate Athletic Director at (330) 471-8293.
How does it work?
We will set up 4 or 5
"lines" of 15 people each to package food. Each person has a
specific job - pour in the ingredients, weigh the bags, seal them, box them up
and then stack them on a pallet.
How much food can one group package?
We estimate that a group
of 15 will generally package 15 boxes of food during a 2 hour session.
Some will do more, some will do less. It averages out to one box per
person.
How much does this cost?
Each box
of food - which contains 216 meals - costs approximately $60 or about 28 cents
per meal. We are asking that each participant sponsor one or more
boxes. If you would like to be involved, but don't have the time to
package, you can sponsor a box or several boxes, and we will find an individual
to package the food. The deadline to sponsor a box of food and sign
up is December 23, 2009.
How much food can we package?
Our minimum goal is to
package 500 boxes which is 108,000 meals. We don't want to limit what God
can accomplish through this event. We are prepared to fill an entire
shipping container - 1,000 boxes or 216,000 meals to the children of Burkina
Faso.
What is in the food? Click Here to learn more about our food.
Where
does the food go?
Although we send food to many countries throughout the
word, this particular food is going to missionaries working in Burkina Faso,
West Africa.
How is the food distributed?
This food will be
given to children living in an orphanage run by our missonary friends, to
widows and to HIV/Aids victims living in the village nearby. Our only
requirements are that the food be given freely, and that it be sent in the name
of Jesus. We have heard amazing stories of people being saved not only
physically, but spiritually as well through the contacts made by providing
food.