80,000 Meals
...noW What?
It started last summer when Westwood
hosted its first Stop Hunger Now meal
build in cooperation with our neighboring
United Methodist churches in the Westside
Churches Working Together mission area.
That event was so successful that a second,
“Westwood only,” build was held in January of
this year. Over eighty thousand meals have
been carefully bagged, sealed and boxed.
The meal build is fun as an activity, and
it has brought many members and
friends together in Fellowship Hall.
But now what? Where is all that
food going?
Stop Hunger Now’s mission is inspiring: To end hunger in our lifetime
by providing food and life-saving aid
to the world’s most vulnerable and by
creating a global commitment to mobilize the necessary resources. Co-founded
in 1998 by Ray Buchanan, a United Methodist
clergyperson, the meal packaging program that
has come to Westwood began in 2005. The
total meals packaged is nearing 200 million, and they are strategically shipped
around the world.
The infographic on the facing page
tells some of the story. Hunger is an
issue that faces us everywhere we turn
– including here in west Los Angeles.
It is exciting that our response can
extend across the street,
across the city and,
with the partnership of Stop
Hunger Now,
across the
globe.
The next
Stop Hunger Now
meal packaging event
will be held at Westwood
Saturday, August 23, 2014
10:00 a.m. to noon
including the Westside
Churches Working
Together.
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