A campus MobilePack™ event for Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) invites students to serve globally while living out Concordia’s call to servant leadership.
On March 19, the CUW Psychology Club and Campus Ministry Leadership Team plan to host a MobilePack™ with Feed My Starving Children (FMSC), a Christian nonprofit dedicated to seeing every child whole in body and spirit. Donations fund nutritious meal ingredients, volunteers hand-pack MannaPack® meals, and the meals are donated to FMSC food partners around the world, where malnourished children are fed and lives are saved.
Four photos courtesy of FMSC
Hunger is the world’s largest solvable problem. According to the World Health Organization, 1 in 11 people worldwide faced hunger in 2023, 1 in 5 in Africa. This crisis can be addressed, and FMSC is tackling it head-on while sharing the Gospel.
This academic year, CUW students are reflecting on a theme verse that identifies what servant leadership looks like in a radical way. In the book of Galatians, Paul calls those redeemed in Christ to demonstrate their freedom from the chains of sin through service to others.
“For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’” Galatians 5:13-14
The Lutheran identity of Concordia itself demonstrates a commitment to service. With the goal of enriching students to grow in mind, body and spirit and preparing leaders to serve Christ in the world, this verse encapsulates the values Concordia seeks to instill in its students to further its mission.
With this in mind, students this year have sought opportunities to complete service projects that assist the wider community beyond the university. One such project is approaching rapidly as an opportunity to reflect on past student service and inspire it in the future.
Through this event, organizers hope to show students they can use their God-given gifts to serve in meaningful ways wherever they are placed. The event has been spearheaded and organized by students dedicated to ensuring Christ’s love is demonstrated in a radical way to neighbors around the world.
This is not something that can be done alone. To host the event, organizers must raise $30,000, which will directly pay for more than 100,000 meals to be packed and sent to children around the world. Donations are an impactful way to advance this mission. Even a donation as small as $1 allows a child to be fed and hope to be shared. Together, as a Christian community, we can demonstrate our freedom and share Christ’s love with neighbors around the world.
To learn more and donate, follow the link: https://give.fmsc.org/cuw
Written by Mikayla Dolan, double major in psychology and social work
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