Feeding the Hungry

       As the Christmas season approaches everyone gets that desire to help others and bring peace and comfort to those around them. For this act, I am truly grateful! This is a part of what makes this season so special. But, what happens the rest of the year? Does that peace and comfort begin to fade when all of your loved ones go home, or when the newness of the gifts wear off, or when all that good Christmas cooking is gone? Or were you able to even feel anything at all. Some people living very close to you never get the feeling of peace or comfort all year long. Your next door neighbor may be running low on money, or need clothes that they can't afford, or worst even yet is maybe starving. This is a feeling that never should exist for anyone. Not just at Christmas time, but any time.The Christian faith has no room for such feelings. We, the people of this world are responsible for each other. No matter how rich or how poor, rather you know them or you don't. Nor, does it matter where they live. The Bible tells us plainly to help others, and the Golden Rule says, Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Our mission here is to do just that.
      As we did last year, we will again be working with Stop Hunger Now to raise money for, and package as many meals as we can. Last year we packaged around 30,000 meals for starving children around the world. This year we hope for twice as much. Please, look into your hearts and consider helping us keep the feelings of hopelessness away from 30,000-60,000 children next year.

Thank You!
Brian Almond
cabarrusfightinghunger@gmail.com

Clothes

Thanks so much for all the clothes donations. We were able to fill a 25 foot box truck slam full. Giving like that is truly a blessing!!

Donate Your Unwanted Clothes

Some local churches are collecting clothes to go to Red Bird Mission in Beverly, Kentucky. This area is home to many coal miners that have lost their jobs due to the smaller amounts of coal used in today's world. These are very proud people and don't want anything given to them even though they are in serious need. So, clothes are donated to Red Bird Mission where they are sold to these family's for only a couple dollars. This money is taken and used for other mission work in that area. They except many other things as well, like tables,chairs, or furniture of any kind. All donations must be gently used and in good shape. If you have anything that you would like to donate please let me know and I will set up a time to get it from you. All donations will be taken to Red Bird Mission during the 2nd week of November. So, you have plenty of time to clean house! Thanks in advance.

If you would like to know more about this mission please visit their website at:   http://www.rbmission.org/

Always remember, What you may consider trash, others may consider it as treasure!

Brian Almond
Cabarrus Fighting Hunger (And Everything Else)
704-791-2490

Stop Hunger Now Packaging Event 2011

What a wonderful day it was at our 1st annual Stop Hunger Now Packaging Event. I want to thank all that volunteered their time at the event and all that helped to raise money for this cause. This was a journey that started in January of this year and ended today with a bang! I am very grateful to all of you!!

Here are some of the stats from today's event:

Amount of money raised - $7,387.96
Amount of meals packaged - 28,884
Amount of money donated for additional meals -$166.00
Amount of additional meals that will be packaged by SHN staff - 664
Total of all meals to be sent off from today's event - 29,552
Number of volunteers at the event - 140
Number of churches participating in raising the money - 11
Number of local businesses participating in raising the money - 4
Amount of time the packaging event took - 4 Hours Total
        1 Hour of Setup / 2 Hours to package meals / 1 Hour of cleanup

Thanks to all that helped:

Young Memorial Baptist             Carolina Compu-Tech
Center UMC                              What-A-Burger #13
Mt. Carmel UMC                       Carquest Union Street
West Concord Baptist                 Barrier General Store
Boger's Chapel UMC
St. John's Lutheran
Westford UMC
Center Grove UMC
St. Paul UMC
Pine Grove
Cold Springs UMC

We will surely do this again next year, and I hope it can be even bigger! I will be sending out a postcard to all the churches in the area in December inviting all to join in our fight against hunger next year. We will start our money collection towards the end of January next year. Thanks again for everything that you have done. I will forever be grateful for it all!
Brian Almond
Cabarrus Fighting Hunger
704-791-2490

Stop Hunger Now

Please join us...

Saturday, July 30, 2011

9:00 am

Cold Springs United Methodist Church