Last spring a freshman named Jordan approached our campus director, Jamey, with a pretty crazy idea: ask our movement to get behind a social justice organization called Feed My Starving Children and package food meals for starving children in developing countries. Typically we, as a campus ministry, don’t focus our time and efforts towards something that we encourage the local church to organize. But the past few years we have seen a trend amongst college students – Christian or not, they want to help those who are less fortunate.
It was quite a risk for us to trust that the Cal Poly community could rally around the idea of packaging meals for kids most in need. But we also saw a potential opportunity to rub shoulders with other organizations on campus and bless others in the process. The goal was big: 200,000 meals, $48,000 to fund it, and nearly 1,800 volunteers giving their time. Thankfully, I was wrong and God worked out the details in wonderful fashion.
I’m going to try something new: journal the process via pictures. Let me know what you think.
We had roughly 1,800 volunteers give 1.5 hours of their time to serve those most in need!
The beginning of each shift our volunteers learned what Feed My Starving Children is about.
Watch the orientation video explaining how the organization, Feed My Starving Children, works with partnering missions organizations. The reality is staggering.
Not only did we hit our marks, but we knocked it out the park! God was extremely faithful and the word about the event spread broadly to the greek houses, dorms, sports teams, and even Student Life’s Community Service department. It was really fun to rub shoulders with many other people who don’t hold the same faith but want to get behind a common goal: showing mercy to those most in need.
We first start with groups that package the meals assembly-line style.
We then seal the meals and place them in boxes of 36 each.
Packing the boxes of meals onto a pallet to be shipped overseas.
My favorite part of the weekend was when the men’s basketball team showed up to serve.
We were blessed to have the entire men's basketball team volunteer during one shift.
me with Jordan, a second year Cal Poly student who had the passion and vision to organize the entire event
Hitting our goals of 200,000 meals and $48,000 to fund it!
There you have it, the event in pictures! Thanks for praying and please continue to pray that our relationships with other campus organizations, teams, fraternities, sororities would continue flourishing and the gospel penetrate in real ways.
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