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| Children receiving food |
Food Container #1 has arrived in Honduras and it’s already being used. You may recall that this is the container Allen begged for from Food for Kidz, filled with food that organization rustled up and sent for free - Sowers4Pastors only had to pay shipping.
Food Container #2 is almost ready, thanks to the efforts of seven or eight church bodies in Maryland. Lighthouse Church began the process and Fredericktowne Baptist is wrapping things up. The phenomenal Suzie Kelly even took some supplies home, and packed about 200 boxes at her dining room table. Allen mentioned that each box holds 450 meals, so that comes out to 90,000 meals!
Allen did some calculations and realized that they were about 4000 pounds short of having a full container. You probably know that Allen refuses to ship air! He sent out a 911 call to Food for Kidz and they agreed to ship enough food to completely fill container #2.
Russell and a Honduran attorney are currently working to get the needed duty-free shipping to send the container ASAP. This process is complicated by the fact that the government office involved is only open two days a week right now.
Food Container #3 will begin packing in Sugarcreek, Ohio, thanks to the help of the Amish and Mennonite communities, as well as some independent local churches, such as The Branch Church. The guys with Off the Wall Discipleship have committed to do the heavy lifting, while the other groups pack the meals. Storage space has been arranged and Allen is hopeful that the food packing will be finished by the middle of November. If all goes as scheduled, the container should ship out at the end of the year. Thank you to everyone who has already committed to packing this container.
Please pray for more churches in Ohio to step up and help out on this project. Pray also for the funds to be raised. As Allen said, “It’s tough to go back to the same people who helped with donations toward food and backpacks before, and ask them to help with food again. Pray for additional partners to come forward.”
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Fortunately, back in Lempira Honduras, the gardens are coming in and more families have access to fresh fruits and vegetables. People are eating “baby corn” now and mature corn should be ready to pick soon. That corn will be dried and ground to make tortillas, an important staple food here. As a result of the gardens, as well as the restrictions lowering so that more people are able to work if they have jobs, fewer pastors have been coming in to make requests for food. Between this and the fortified oatmeal being shipped over, Sowers4Pastors is hopeful that the children will no longer be in danger of starvation (back to the level of chronic malnutrition, instead). Allen requests prayer for all of the kids that are suffering and that the kids will really like the new meals of oatmeal.
- posted by Christi
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| Click HERE to see video as the first food shipment arrives (Russell starts talking about 40 seconds in). Russell is not really green, btw, he's just under a green tarp. LOL |
Allen did some calculations and realized that they were about 4000 pounds short of having a full container. You probably know that Allen refuses to ship air! He sent out a 911 call to Food for Kidz and they agreed to ship enough food to completely fill container #2.
Russell and a Honduran attorney are currently working to get the needed duty-free shipping to send the container ASAP. This process is complicated by the fact that the government office involved is only open two days a week right now.
Food Container #3 will begin packing in Sugarcreek, Ohio, thanks to the help of the Amish and Mennonite communities, as well as some independent local churches, such as The Branch Church. The guys with Off the Wall Discipleship have committed to do the heavy lifting, while the other groups pack the meals. Storage space has been arranged and Allen is hopeful that the food packing will be finished by the middle of November. If all goes as scheduled, the container should ship out at the end of the year. Thank you to everyone who has already committed to packing this container.
Please pray for more churches in Ohio to step up and help out on this project. Pray also for the funds to be raised. As Allen said, “It’s tough to go back to the same people who helped with donations toward food and backpacks before, and ask them to help with food again. Pray for additional partners to come forward.”
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| Family with garden |
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- posted by Christi
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