Lisa Cardinal – Parker, Colorado … The answer is BRING A FRIEND – FEED 10,000 event at Newday Adventist Church in Parker, Colorado, where participants packed meals for 10,000 people in Honduras, March 28. Church members and their friends and neighbors excitedly joined together to divide 1,562 pounds of non-perishable food into bags that would each feed six people.
Multiple assembly lines were set up for the job, each with rice, soy-protein, dehydrated vegetables, a vitamin, seasoning powder, large funnel, plastic bags, scale, heat-sealer, and labels. Once filled, sealed, and labeled, bags were packed into boxes and taped.
With hairnets and plastic gloves in place, over one hundred of the participants ranging in age from 3 to over 60 years chose an assembly-line position. It was teamwork at its finest: fun and fast. The task was completed in less than the projected hour and a half.
Before leaving, all gathered and prayed over the boxes of packaged meals: “God, may these boxes reach their destination safely. May those who receive these meals also receive the love and joy packed into each one.” The boxes now await transport by railroad.
“In a world where uncertainty, chaos, and trauma seem to compound daily, doing good is a way of refusing to let those things have the last word,” remarked Lisa Cardinal, lead pastor at Newday. “The hour and half invested was multiplied in each of our hearts as we, along with our friends and neighbors, were blessed by the simple act of doing good together.”
—Lisa Cardinal is lead pastor at Newday Adventist Church. Photos by Kenneth Martinez and Jim Huenergardt.
