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PHOTOS: Church Helps Malnourished Kids With Two-Day Meal-Packing Event
More than 500 volunteers—including Mayor Jim Holland and State Rep. Reneé Kosel—participated in last week's event at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, which created more than 116,00 meals that will be distributed to disadvantaged children around the world.
The idea of "packing lunches for kids" took on a new, deeper meaning for participants in activities on Friday, June 22, and Saturday, June 23, at .
More than 500 people—including Mayor Jim Holland and State Rep. Reneé Kosel—gathered in two-hour shifts to be part of a mobile two-day, meal-packing event for Feed My Starving Children, a Christian nonprofit group that creates and distributes specially formulated meals for malnourished children around the world. In those two days, the volunteers put together more than 116,000 meals
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Rev. Kevin Hahn, Good Shepherd's pastor, became aware of Feed My Starving Children's volunteer packing events after being a part of one at the group's Aurora facilities.
"You realize that we have more than enough food for ourselves, and this is a way to make a difference in the lives of those who don't," Hahn said about why the church sponsored the event.
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