Meals From The Heartland

When Aunt Alice mentioned her church was participating in "Meals From The Heartland", I told her to sign us up. The kids and I went down to Des Moines with Alice and Carina to help pack meals on a Tuesday evening. We were scheduled to work at 6PM. There was around 12 of us that helped. Jayden, Jake, and I had helped before and really enjoyed it. This was Luke's first time. He started out as a meal stacker. He had to stack the meal packs before they went into a box. I was the package sealer. Jayden and Jacob added ingredients.

Each meal package feeds up to six people. To feed a family of six, it costs just $1.20 to package.
The meal package contains rice, soy protein, vitamins, minerals and dried vegetables (carrot, onion, tomato, celery, cabbage and bell pepper).

We would fill a box containing 24 meals aproximately every 2 minutes. That is 720 meals in an hour. The center was full of teams filling packages and boxes. It was a great feeling to be a part of feeding the hungry. The meals are then sent to South Africa and Haiti and some distributed in Iowa. Isaiah 58:10 “Feed the hungry, and help those in trouble. Then your light will shine out from the darkness, and the darkness around you will be as bright as noon.”

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