10th Lancaster County Feed My Starving Children MobilePack, March 28-30, 2025 in Willow Street, PA

Start: Friday, March 28, 2025 1:30PM
End: Sunday, March 30, 2025 6:00PM

Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) is a Christian organization founded in 1987. Through MobilePack events, FMSC is able to partner with local community organizations to send healthy, safe meals to malnourished children around the world. Thanks to volunteers packing and covering the expense of the meals, each meal costs only 29 cents to produce. Since 1987, FMSC has distributed more than 4 billion meals in more than 100 countries.

The 10th Lancaster County Feed My Starving Children MobilePack will take place Friday-Sunday, March 28-30, 2025 at Willow Street Mennonite Church, Willow Street, PA. 2,000 volunteers will pack 400,000 meals to help alleviate world hunger! To date, our meals have gone to Somalia, Haiti, Belize, Dominican Republic, Malawi, Uganda, Jamaica, Poland, Guyana and Moldova. Working together over the last 9 events, more than 10,000 volunteers from our community have come together to send more than 2.3 million meals to those most in need around the world! 
If you are age 5-205, WE NEED YOU!!

How does it work? 2,000 volunteers work during 2 hour shifts to pack 400,000 meals in 3 days. The volunteers come from churches, schools, businesses, friends, relatives, co-workers and anyone else who would like to participate. It is an awesome opportunity for families and friends to volunteer and spend time together for a great cause!

Can anyone do it? For safety and efficiency, required student-to-adult ratios are put in place:
K-2nd grade 1 student to 1 adult
3rd-6th grade 3 students to 1 adult
7th-9th grade 4 students to 1 adult
10th-12th grade 5 students to 1 adult
Sit down jobs are available as needed.

Does it cost to participate? Every individual who signs up for a packing shift is encouraged to make a personal goal of contributing a minimum of $63. At the price of 29 cents a meal, this covers the cost of 1 box of packed meals (216 meals) which is the average amount a single volunteer packs in a 2 hour period. Whether a person can contribute 29 cents or $290, we welcome you to participate in the MobilePack event.

Donations may be submitted on-line for our event at:

https://give.fmsc.org/campaign/2503-014mi-willow-street-pa-lancaster-county/c578933

or mailed to:

Feed My Starving Children
ATTN: MobilePack #2503-014MI
1000 Kreider Drive, Suite 200
Middletown, PA 17057
Make checks payable to FMSC. Write "MobilePack #2503-014MI" in the memo line.
 
Where do I sign up? On-line sign up for the public will begin in mid-February, 2025 at the following link:
https://give.fmsc.org/campaign/2503-014mi-willow-street-pa-lancaster-county/c578933
 
If it is your first time to ever register for a FMSC event, see below for additional instructions!

Packing times will be as follows:
Friday, March 28, 2025 1:30-3:30 PM, 4:00-6:00 PM
Saturday, March 29, 2025 9:00 AM-11:00 AM,12:00 PM-2:00 PM, 2:30-4:30 PM, 5:00-7:00 PM
Sunday, March 30, 2025 1:30-3:30 PM, 4:30-6:30 PM
Some shift times are more popular than others and fill quickly. 

Again this year! Food Collection for the Lancaster County Food Hub: 
Unfortunately, food insecurity is a local challenge as a well as a global one for many. As a result, in addition to financial donations to cover the cost of the FMSC meals, we are inviting everyone to bring along a non-perishable food item that will be donated to the Lanc. Co. Food Hub that is located in Lancaster city. Items requested include:
Peanut butter (1 lb. containers) Canned meats- chicken or tuna 
 
Rice (1 lb. bags- white or brown) Canned fruit (in juice/light syrup) 
 
Pasta (whole wheat preferred) Meal helpers (Hamburger Helper, rice sides, etc.) 

Breakfast cereal (low sugar) Soup (low sodium)

Anyone from Lancaster County may receive food from this location.
 
Following is a video that you may find helpful to learn more about FMSC. Feel free to share it and spread the word!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ech5XOryipM&t=10s

If it is your first time to ever register for a FMSC event, you will need to set up a username and password to register as an individual or for your group. Here is the link for the home page for FMSC. Go to the upper right hand corner and click Log in You can then create an account to set up a username and password. 
https://www.fmsc.org/#

Once you set up an account, you can go to this link, click on Volunteer, then reserve the number of spots you will need for your group. It is fine to have your group come during multiple different time shifts if that is what they want to do. Please do NOT reserve more spaces than you know that your group will fill. 
We need all of our volunteer slots filled and and don't want to waste any slots. 
https://give.fmsc.org/campaign/2503-014mi-willow-street-pa-lancaster-county/c578933

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