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We've found that the most effective way to communicate love to a family is to bring help directly to their homes. At CHF, we give 20 pound boxes full of nutritious foods called Food Paks® which volunteers use as relationship-building tools. This strategy puts love into action and provides ongoing relief and hope for the future.  Imagine you are a grandmother. Your daughter has made some wrong choices and now she is unable to care for your 3 grandchildren. Being a loving grandma, you take them in and care for them. Your pension and social security are meant to pay your bills and feed you, but with 3 growing children under your roof, those checks only stretch so far. Soon, you're forced to choose between paying rent or buying groceries. You become desperate and take any job you can. Despite your failing health, you work long hours to keep food on the table and your grandchildren in your home.
Now imagine you hear a knock on the door. Fearing that it may be another bill collector, you hesitate, but you reluctantly go to the door and open it.
There, on your porch, stands a couple holding a large box of food, and they want to give it to you.
This situation is more common than many of us might imagine. We've all been in a place in our lives where we need someone else to come alongside us and help us past a difficult challenge. This is exactly what Children's Hunger Fund does through our Food Pak program. The Food Pak is a unique tool designed to open doors into the lives of poor families where they can be served more completely. Food Pak® CampaignsFood Pak® Campaigns allow churches and community groups the opportunity to get directly involved in helping needy families. Groups are given empty boxes and a goal to reach. Each member fills a box (or 2) with nutritional food and the boxes are distributed directly into the homes of the children and families that CHF serves.
The CHF Food Pak Campaign is an exciting way for your family to get directly involved in helping poor children and families.
To begin a Food Pak Campaign at your church or community group, contact us here.
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 Recently, a small Chicago church heard God’s call to meet physical and spiritual needs in their suburban community. Like many churches in such neighborhoods, they were uncertain where to find and meet needy families, or if their help was even wanted.
Despite their uncertainty, the church stepped out in faith. Members asked local schools and other agencies to distribute information about their new Food Pak® ministry to families in need. Within days, people started calling to ask for help. Within weeks, each ministry team had several families to visit.
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At the Corner of Light and Darkness |
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 Five years ago, Jimmy Robles was dealing drugs on the streets of San Antonio. Today, he is a changed man, a pastor, helping many of the same people to whom he had previously sold drugs. Located on a notoriously dangerous corner in San Antonio, Jimmy’s church, Last Chance Ministries, offers light and life to a fringe culture that only knows darkness and death. Weary of their unhappy lives, drug addicts, prostitutes and gang members have come to trust Jimmy through the compassionate care he provides. Many are following in his footsteps making dramatic life changes as well.
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Children’s Hunger Fund recently shipped our first international sea container of aid into the Dominican Republic (DR) and we have great news - it made it! The significance of this first container being received without any problems at the Dominican port cannot be overemphasized. Due to various factors like changes in government and corruption at the ports, it is often very difficult for our relationships in Latin America to receive and release containers without encountering one problem or another. We are thoroughly encouraged by the ability and efficiency of our new ministry partner in processing this shipment. Esperanza International is CHF’s new primary partner in the Caribbean. Together we look forward to the amazing doors God will open to resource local churches in both the DR and Haiti. |
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Meeting in the Crossroads |
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Crossroads Community Church is a new church in Austin, Texas. Led by Pastor Brady Trawick, the heart of ministry at Crossroads is to reach out to the poor communities directly surrounding the church. Mapping out the two zip codes surrounding the church, Crossroads has impact in the most populated and the most diverse zip code in the city, with fifty-three different nationalities represented in the local high school. Police say the area has the second highest crime rate in Austin, first in sexual assaults and motor vehicle theft and second in murders, robberies, aggravated assault and theft. |
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Dorothea has a lot of responsibility for a ninth-grader. Beginning at a new school this year, making the transition from middle school to high school is enough to stress out any teenager. But the responsibilities Dorothea has are far beyond what would be expected of an average American student. Dorothea is a recent immigrant from Tanzania. |
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