Mon 25 JUL 2011

Hi this is Tristan! Today we all went to the Emergency Foodlink and packaged food. We broke into teams and each group had a job to do. The first group made boxes and handed them out to the other groups. The packing groups took food out of giant crates of food and separated them into different smaller boxes (dry food, canned food, baby food, glass containers, etc.)
We had youth who taped the boxes shut, ohers who put them on pallets then others who hauled them off. At the end of 5 hrs and being hot,sweaty and dirty, we packaged 27,000 lbs of food. We are going back tomorrow for 5 more hrs of fun!----------------



Hi its Tim. Today we took a long and eventful trip to foodlink. It was a blast! We packaged a whole lot of food and Mary and I made hundreds of boxes! We had some great teams and amazing systems to box, load and wrap thousand pounds of food. It was long, tiring and sometimes seemed like it would never end but in the end the sense of accomplishment was worth it!!!! :-)
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Hey, it's Mary. Today we went to Foodlink. We worked to help build a better community. We were Christ's body helping people in need.
Foodlink supplies over 180 pantries in the Sacramento area and provides food for various organizations throughout the State of California. We were going to help in the fields, but they needed us to box food instead. We said we'd help out wherever the greatest need was. I think this may have been a better experience for us, because we had to work as a team and I felt we worked really well together. I didn't completely expect it. We were really cranking out those food boxes and had a great system going. I am really proud of the work we did and how well it was done. I am very proud to be part of this youth group. Just as I have always been. I can feel fellowship when I am with them. I miss everyone at home and can't wait to see you all. Missing you, but I am having an amazing time growing closer to Christ. Love, Mary