If I asked you where Sri Lanka is located, could you tell me? If I had to guess, many of you wouldn’t know—and you wouldn’t be alone! When I first started working at Feed the Hunger, I remember sitting in a meeting and Sri Lanka was brought
Read more →When you travel on a mission trip, your itinerary is usually planned out by the group leader. However, a good leader will tell you that the key for any trip is to be flexible. Sometimes things don’t go the way you planned them and you need to
Read more →When it comes to being healthy, there are two main groups of people. Those in one group have a plan for maintaining their personal health and work at that plan. Of course, they may go seasons with interruptions, but they generally progress toward their goal. Those in
Read more →Earlier this year, a second container of meal packets was sent to northern Iraq. The food was packed with the help of hundreds of volunteers over a series of fall Packathons. A container with 276,480 meals, primarily beans and rice, was sent through one of our partners,
Read more →As you know, we are partnering with Jennifer “Jungle Jen” Foster and Stand Out Ministries to reach the unreached tribes of the Amazon in Brazil. To date, the Lord has used her to plant six churches among the tribes. She has also launched a Bible initiative there
Read more →Church growth is usually one of the top priorities in most churches. That’s “bringing them in, and growing them up!” Here’s an unusual story of one church that wasn’t planning a Packathon as a strategy for church growth, but God stepped in and orchestrated His plan and
Read more →When I was in college, my football coach told us when we went to the cafeteria, “The food you get, make sure you eat it!” He was telling us not to be wasteful. I can also remember my dad letting me know that if I asked for
Read more →Feed the Hunger has a new partner! Woo hoo!* Nestled in the mountains of eastern Kentucky is the small county of Magoffin. Now before you say, “that’s nice” or you move on to something else, give me a couple of minutes to share with you about our
Read more →It’s easy to focus on and celebrate the profound change that God is working in the lives of needy children who daily benefit from Feed the Hunger food. But we also need to remember that God uses the Packathon experience itself to grow and shape the lives
Read more →You’ve heard of cornmeal, a happy meal, an all-you-can-eat meal, oatmeal, and piecemeal, but what in the world do we mean when we say, “Feed the Hunger: It’s More Than a Meal”? Let’s stop and think about that for a moment. The obvious part of our name
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