Feed My Starving Children: La Croix Church celebrates 10 years of meal prep

Tyler Graef

Friday, December 6, 2019

This year marks the tenth year La Croix Church has hosted meal packing events for Feed My Starving Children, a program which distributes meals to impoverished communities around the world. Event co-director Linda Watts said the volunteers performed work that is in the spirit of the Gospels - a work of ministry that will serve the less fortunate.

Volunteers pack containers with food during a Feed My Starving Children meal packing event hosted by La Croix Church Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, at the Osage Centre in Cape Girardeau. (Tyler Graef ~ Southeast Missourian)
Angie Huber, right, reacts with alarm as Adalyn Brandhorst, left, pours food into a funnel without a container attached to it during a Feed My Starving Children meal packing event hosted by La Croix Church Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, at the Osage Centre in Cape Girardeau. (Tyler Graef ~ Southeast Missourian)
Eli Hennecke, 6, concentrates while helping other volunteers seal packages of food during a Feed My Starving Children meal packing event hosted by La Croix Church Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, at the Osage Centre in Cape Girardeau. (Tyler Graef ~ Southeast Missourian)
Avery Alexander sorts labels during a Feed My Starving Children meal packing event hosted by La Croix Church Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, at the Osage Centre in Cape Girardeau. (Tyler Graef ~ Southeast Missourian)

From right, Genevieve Brandhorst, Kate Rowland, Angie Huber and Adalyn Brandhorst begin packing meals during a Feed My Starving Children meal packing event hosted by La Croix Church Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, at the Osage Centre in Cape Girardeau. (Tyler Graef ~ Southeast Missourian)
Neil Petzoldt, left, and his son, Will, read a label on a gigantic sack of rice during a Feed My Starving Children meal packing event hosted by La Croix Church Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, at the Osage Centre in Cape Girardeau. (Tyler Graef ~ Southeast Missourian)
Volunteers work to prepare meals during a Feed My Starving Children meal packing event hosted by La Croix Church Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, at the Osage Centre in Cape Girardeau. (Tyler Graef ~ Southeast Missourian)