{"id":2632,"date":"2012-03-14T23:07:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T03:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2012-03-14T23:07:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T03:07:33","slug":"stop-hunger-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/2012\/03\/stop-hunger-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Hunger Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This past Saturday my church partnered with Stop Hunger Now<\/h1>\n

with the goal of packaging 10,000 nutritious meals for distribution to some of the world’s most vulnerable people.\u00a0 What an amazing experience it was!\u00a0 Stop Hunger Now<\/b> has developed a process of bringing raw materials and volunteers together to accomplish the “moving of the mountain” of hunger in a way that energizes a spirit of service among the participants.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\n
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\"Stop<\/a>In the weeks leading up to the big day we promoted the event in our neighborhood and raised the necessary funds to pay for the food we would be packaging.\u00a0 We had hoped to have about 50 volunteers for the event.\u00a0 When we gathered in the fellowship hall at Forest Hills<\/a> United Methodist Church just before 10:00 am, we had over 100 volunteers!\u00a0 Groups had come from Temple Terrace UMC<\/a>, Lake Magdalene UMC<\/a>, First UMC of Lutz<\/a>, Saint Timothy Catholic Church<\/a>, Lake Carroll Baptist Church<\/a>, Oak Grove UMC<\/a>, and neighbors from all around us.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\n
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Robert Samuels, the Stop Hunger Now<\/i> program manager for Orlando, FL instructed us in forming teams to perform the necessary steps and we went to work.\u00a0 It was like a perfectly orchestrated symphony of human effort striving toward a goal that was larger than life. <\/span><\/h4>\n<\/h4>\n
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“Stop Hunger Now provides meals to support school feeding programs in schools and orphanages around the world.<\/h2>\n<\/h4>\n

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This is a pivotal step because children in impoverished areas are often sent to school if they will be fed.\u00a0 The education they receive is the turning point at which many negative factors such as infant mortality, disease, and gender inequality are impacted and communities can begin to heal themselves.”<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Now here is something that doesn’t happen often…\u00a0 About 40 minutes into the project, our pastor asked that some of the people who were working please take a break so that everyone who came could have an opportunity to participate!\u00a0 After about an hour and a half we had packaged a total of 10,040 meals, and everyone was talking about when we might be able to do this again.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\n

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Our Stop Hunger Now event was a great success in every imaginable way!<\/h3>\n<\/h4>\n
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It was fun and engaging, and it infused a new level of unifying energy into our church.\u00a0 It was a corporate experience of being the hands and feet of Christ together, evidence that when the Church comes together with a unifying purpose, much prayer, and a willingness to pitch in, we can speak to that mountain and it will move!<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\n

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Blessings & Adventure,<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\n

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Lynn “lynnibug” Rios<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\n

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