Feed the Need at Eagle Ridge

Fred Lynch

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Students and volunteers pack over 10,000 meals that will be shipped to Haiti during the second-annual Feed the Need event Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 at Eagle Ridge Christian School in Cape Girardeau.

Denise Gartman supervises pre-kindergarteners in the meal-flattening line, from left, Benson Keesee, Sophie Lewis, Jeremiah Cook and Perry Kolwyck, during the Feed the Need meal-packing event Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 at Eagle Ridge Christian School. (Fred Lynch)
Volunteers assist pre-kindergarteners at Eagle Ridge Christian School at its second-annual Feed the Need meal-packing event Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016, including, from left, Jane Myers, Kaitlyn DeVault, Thomas Peters, Kaitlyn Todd, Noel Friedrich and Harper Bruce. The school partnered with the Feed the Hunger organization in packing over 10,000 meals that will be shipped to Haiti with a small portion kept for local food banks. (Fred Lynch)
Rachel Mellies holds her son, Christian, as he pats a meal in the flattening line during the Feed the Need meal-packing event Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 at Eagle Ridge Christian School. (Fred Lynch)
Collin Barger works on the meal-loading table during the Feed the Need meal-packing event Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 at Eagle Ridge Christian School. (Fred Lynch)

Alicia Schumer watches her daughter, Colleen, color a picture that will be inserted in a meal package during the Feed the Need meal-packing event Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 at Eagle Ridge Christian School.
Pre-kindergarteners get ready for the Feed the Need meal-packing event Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 at Eagle Ridge Christian School.
The Feed the Need meal-packing event Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 at Eagle Ridge Christian School.
The Feed the Need meal-packing event Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 at Eagle Ridge Christian School.
The Feed the Need meal-packing event Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 at Eagle Ridge Christian School.

The Feed the Need meal-packing event Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 at Eagle Ridge Christian School.
The Feed the Need meal-packing event Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 at Eagle Ridge Christian School.
The Feed the Need meal-packing event Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 at Eagle Ridge Christian School.
The Feed the Need meal-packing event Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 at Eagle Ridge Christian School.
The Feed the Need meal-packing event Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 at Eagle Ridge Christian School.
The Feed the Need meal-packing event Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 at Eagle Ridge Christian School.