I spent the past two days at East Aurora High School at a mobile Feed My Starving Children food-packing event. Great organization that provides meals for starving children around the world. East Aurora HS implemented a brand-new service graduation requirement this year for incoming freshmen, and they wanted to kick it off with a huge service event. Unfortunately, it costs about $17,000 to bring an event like this to a school/church . . . not a price an under-resourced school district can support. So often the kids in this community are the recipients of service, so a few of us thought it would be great to help give them an opportunity to serve the "poorest of the poor." So, four Naperville churches pooled resources to sponsor this two day event. It was a fantastic experience. 658 volunteers (mostly high school students) packed 102,600 meals that will feed 281 children a nutritious meal a day for one year. I thought the Beacon news did a great job of capturing the event. Click here to read it.
