St. Mark’s, Thrivent feed hungry kids

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On Saturday, October 13, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church will partner with Thrivent Financial for Lutherans to pack 20,000 meals to help feed hungry children locally and around the world.

This is the third year St. Mark’s has hosted the food-packing event for Kids Against Hunger.  At the cost of 28 cents per meal, it takes $5,600, in addition to many volunteers, to support the October 13 event.

St. Mark’s was blessed to raise nearly $5,000 through its recent Highway 127 Garage Sale event.  Coupled with Thrivent Financial’s $1,000 contribution, the packing event was made possible.

The community is invited to participate in the packing on October 13, beginning at 8 a.m. Anyone can participate, even children as young as 4 years old! Come wearing comfortable clothing and shoes; all supplies are provided.  Any questions can be directed to Joan Holland at 419.203.9754.

Kids Against Hunger is an international organization that works with volunteers in the United States and Canada to package highly nutritious, vitamin-fortified soy-rice packets that are distributed to starving children and their families in over 60 countries worldwide.

About Thrivent Financial for Lutherans

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is a not-for-profit, Fortune 500 financial services membership organization helping approximately 2.5 million members achieve financial security and give back to their communities. Thrivent Financial and its affiliates offer a broad range of financial products and services including life insurance, annuities, mutual funds, disability income insurance, bank products and more. As a not-for-profit organization, Thrivent Financial creates and supports national outreach programs and activities that help congregations, schools, charitable organizations and individuals in need. For more information, visit www.thrivent.com. Also, you can find us on Facebook and Twitter.

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans recently donated $1,000 to the Kids Against Hunger program at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Van Wert. Shown are (from the left) John Vining of Thrivent, Joan Holland of St. Mark’s and Beth Kitson and Carl Etzler of Thrivent. (Dave Mosier/Van Wert independent)