A North Carolina church packs 50,000 meals to send to the needy in Zambia and credits God for the amazing outreach.
The Greenville-based Unity Church, which belongs to the National Association of Free Will Baptists, organized volunteers to pack 50,000 meals over a weekend.
Kevin Justice, pastor of worship and administration at Unity Church, told The Christian Post that the idea for the charitable event came from their senior pastor, Jeff Manning — “who wanted the congregation to ‘do something’ that impacts people around the world for Christ.”
“In researching various outreach opportunities, he found Kids Around the World, a nonprofit based in the Chicago area. One of their programs, OneMeal, provides a turnkey system for groups to pack meals to be sent to centers around the world that feed children and share the message of the Gospel.”
The meals were picked up from the church on Monday to be shipped to the Chicago area and, from there, to Zambia.
According to Justice, the 50,000 meals will be sent to a center in Zambia that is overseen by the OneMeal program that provides an estimated 14,000 meals a day to children in need.
Justice hopes the effort will help his congregation develop “a desire to make a difference in our world by meeting needs and sharing the Gospel,” and “a realization that God can accomplish great things”.
Many churches across the US are involved in similar meal-packing efforts.