Providing Food and the Gospel to Starving Children
LWML Mission Grant #1
I know we’ve all seen the pictures of hungry children, and the situation tugs at our hearts. We might even have said “I wish there was something I could do to help.” Well, the truth of the matter is that you (all of us) are helping.
At the Albuquerque LWML Convention delegates voted to fund a $ 40,000 grant for providing food to starving children. This grant was the number one vote-getter out of all the proposed grants. One half of this grant has already been funded. Our mite gifts on Giving Tuesday will help fund the balance and provide food for the hungry.
Mercy Meals of Siouxland (Iowa West) has packaged over a million meals of fortified rice/soy meals for the starving children all over the world. With one regular packaging event held each month, along with several special events, meals have been packaged and sent to countries like Haiti, the Philippines, and Liberia, including a children’s orphanage in Bucharest, Romania. Approximately 45,000 meals are packaged during a single event.
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth (1 John 3:16-18).
Continue to pray for all the mission grants. On Giving Tuesday your donation will be matched. Your support is needed. Please donate your offering at www.lwml.org/givingtuesday.
