Missio Lux surpasses 40,000 meals for children abroad
October 27, 2009
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Members of Missio Lux, the Sammamish church without walls, recently surpassed their summer/fall humanitarian goal of packaging 40,000 meals and raising $10,000 for needy children around the world.
At its Oct. 25 meal packing party, working with Silverdale-based outreach organization Children of The Nations, Missio Lux added 2,320 meals and $580. As of Oct. 26, the church had totaled 42,180 meals and $10,545.
That’s enough to feed 115 children for one year, said pastor Tamara Buchan.
She said Missio Lux plans to have three more “Parties with a Purpose” meal-packing events, with numerous others pending.
The meals, which contain chicken, spice, lentils and rice, later mixed with nutritious vegetables and grains, will be shipped in the next few months to Sierra Leone, Malawi, Uganda and the Dominican Republic, said Fraser Ratzlaff, Seattle feeding coordinator for Children of the Nations.
The organization feeds and educates poor children through village partnerships in each country.
It also provides medical care and community development resources.
Watch a video of packaged food from a similar Seattle-based event arriving in Sierra Leone at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl834TSR8Lc.
Members of Missio Lux, the Sammamish church without walls, recently surpassed their summer/fall humanitarian goal of packaging 40,000 meals and raising $10,000 for needy children around the world.
At its Oct. 25 meal packing party, working with Silverdale-based outreach organization Children of The Nations, Missio Lux added 2,320 meals and $580. As of Oct. 26, the church had totaled 42,180 meals and $10,545.
That’s enough to feed 115 children for one year, said pastor Tamara Buchan.
She said Missio Lux plans to have three more “Parties with a Purpose” meal-packing events, with numerous others pending.
The meals, which contain chicken, spice, lentils and rice, later mixed with nutritious vegetables and grains, will be shipped in the next few months to Sierra Leone, Malawi, Uganda and the Dominican Republic, said Fraser Ratzlaff, Seattle feeding coordinator for Children of the Nations.
The organization feeds and educates poor children through village partnerships in each country.
It also provides medical care and community development resources.
Watch a video of packaged food from a similar Seattle-based event arriving in Sierra Leone at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl834TSR8Lc.
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