Mission at FPC
Snack Sack Lunch
The FPC Mission & Service team with approval of the session are going to start a bag lunch program for food insecure people in Macon County. WHY START THIS PROGRAM? Food insecurity is an official term from the USDA. It's when people don't have enough to eat and don't know where their next meal will come from. It's a big problem in the United States, where over 44 million people, including 13 million children, experience food insecurity annually. Food insecurity affects a person’s physical and mental health, child development, economic impact, social consequences. Poverty, unemployment and low wages lead to food insecurity. HOW WILL IT WORK? We will be offering bag lunches containing a sandwich, some chips or crackers, a sweet treat, and a bottle of water. Each bag will have information on our church and/or an uplifting verse. We will serve every Thursday from 11-2. We will have tables in the kitchen parking lot where they can sit and enjoy their lunch, or they can take it and go. We will start out making 30 lunches until we see how many we serve and increase as needed. Any leftovers will be given to Smoky Mountain Harm Reduction to be served the next day. |
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