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Help feed hungry children with MUST Ministries

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Help feed hungry children here with MUST Ministries

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(June 13, 2013 - MUST Ministries) --- With 19,400 students eligible for the free and reduced lunch program in North Fulton county, MUST Ministries is working to rescue hungry children again this summer by providing and delivering sack lunches to various housing neighborhoods.

 

“This is our eighteenth year to provide meals and our third in North Fulton,” said Gayle Kruger, MUST coordinator for North Fulton. “We plan to serve 400 children each week day totaling 20,000 meals, but we need community support,” she said.

 

Lunches are made by churches, businesses, clubs, neighborhoods, sports teams and families who want to help. A detailed list of what goes in each lunch and the daily menu is posted on the MUST web site at www.mustministries.org, she explained. Then the lunches are taken to host sites where packers and checkers perform a quality control check, making sure each lunch has a sandwich, a sweet, a salty and a juice box. Sandwiches are repacked in bread sleeves after                                             being assembled and put in cold storage, so they must be added to the sack just before delivery.

 

“One of the most meaningful ways to volunteer is to become a driver,” Kruger said. Each week day, the drivers load their cars with the lunches and drive a pre-appointed route where children wait for the meal. “When they see us, it’s like Christmas! The children come running and the driver and a helper distribute the lunches. On Fridays, we also hand out free books for the children to help them continue to read during the summer.”

 

Eighteen summers ago, a teacher came to MUST who was concerned about what her students would eat during vacation. She asked MUST to provide the meals and she promised to personally deliver them to her students. She helped 25 children that summer, but today, the MUST program spans eight counties. What is the sack lunch goal? 250,000!

 

People who want to participate in this important project can also donate online via the MUST web site or donate supplies. The ministry needs peanut butter, jelly, bread, juice boxes, individually packed salty snacks and sweet snacks, baggies and paper bags. “Even your young children can help by decorating lunch bags for other children,” Kruger said. “It’s an easy way to get your whole family involved in helping others.”

 

 

MUST is grateful to the host sites in North Fulton who are working hard to provide some of the volunteers and space to support the outreach. Special thanks to the staff and congregations at Roswell United Methodist Church and North Springs United Methodist Church.

 

For more information on how to help in North Fulton, please email gkruger@mustministries.org.

 

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