Campion Connections News – Students and members of Campion Academy (CA) and Campion Seventh-day Adventist Church in Loveland, Colorado, hosted their second tandem meal packing event, March 7. Planning started a few months before the event and was made possible by the work of several people from both the school and church.
A potluck took place following the church worship service, which led into the meal-packing event. The event took place in Campion Academy’s gymnasium this year, unlike last year where the event took place in HMS Richards Adventist School’s gym. However, there was an exciting reason for this change in location.
This year, the goal for the number of meals packed was pushed to approximately 32,000 meals, which is over 10,000 more meals than last year. The event lasted around two hours, as the saying “many hands make light work” was clearly put into practice, with many fLarrom the community coming together to serve. There were eight tables being used with ten or more people at them manning a different station. Some poured oats into bags, others added cinnamon, others sealed the bags, and the line ended with the bags being counted and packed into boxes.
Throughout the afternoon, music was playing in the background and the sound of talking and laughter filled the air. Every so often, the sound of a cow bell would ring out at different tables signaling to the others that their table had packed yet another box. There were kids helping out at tables, high school students mixed in with church members, and ages ranging from the young elementary students all the way up to the older members of Campion Church.
Addison Gann, the CA student who spearheaded this event, mentioned that her favorite part was, “getting to see everything come together in the end. There were a lot of pieces that had to come together for this activity to work and after months of planning, it was just awesome to see them fit together and for the community to come together and serve the Lord!”
This activity required help from many people in order for it to happen, ranging from finances to finding a pallet jack that could be used to transport the equipment around. Gann commented, “It really was a miracle that this all came together. God’s hand was definitely at work.” In the end, the meals were sent to the Larimer County Food Bank* to be distributed to those in need throughout the community.
* Larimer County Food Bank is not affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church nor the Rocky Mountain Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
—Campion Connections News. Reposted from April 2026 Campion Connections Monthly Newsletter. Photos supplied.
