Mt. Bethel Christian Academy
(MBCA) has launched a new service initiative called “You Fed Me,” with an
ambitious goal to pack 100,000 meals for hungry children in one day. Under the direction of Stop Hunger Now, an international hunger relief
agency, the school, with students in
grades kindergarten through eighth, engaged every student packing meals
along side faculty, staff and 75 parent and grandparent volunteers on Friday,
February 1, 2013 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
“Our
community will be assembling 100,000 nutritious, potentially life-saving meals
for hungry children around the world,” said Jim Callis, Mt. Bethel Christian
Academy’s Head of School. “A service
initiative of this scale will require 100% involvement from our student body,
our faculty and many more from our parent and grandparent community.” According
to Stop Hunger Now organizers, never before has a school endeavored to
accomplish such an ambitious goal. “By serving others, our students learn to
think beyond themselves and realize that as a community we can make a
difference in the lives of children that may not enjoy the same quality of life
that we experience.” continued Callis.
The “You Fed Me” campaign takes its name from the
passage in Matthew 25 where God tells us that when we feed someone who is
hungry, it is as though we are feeding Him.
Each meal, which costs twenty-five cents, contains rice, vegetables, soy
protein and 21 essential
vitamins and nutrients in a dehydrated form making them easy to store and
ship. At a cost of $25,000, MBCA will be
funding this campaign through contributions from the school community.
Throughout the year, students in
every grade level at MBCA support missions both locally and internationally
such as Georgia’s Make-a-Wish Foundation, MUST Ministries, Operation Homefront,
and the Community Hope School in Namibia, Africa.
