Update from last week's activities....

We are about as close to 1.5 million meals as we can get!!! Total production to date at the end of production on Saturday (8/8/09) was 1,486,728 meals. Below are pictures of some of the volunteer packers that helped prepare almost 30,000 meals last Saturday.

Our next packing event will be Sat Aug 22. Two churches, Countryside Community and West Chester Nazarene will be teaming together to pack for the mission in Honduras that Countryside supports. This is a great thing when two churches come together for the least of these. They have been working as hard as they can on fund raising. Please pray for the pack and for the funds to come in - for the children in Honduras.

Our next packing day after that will be Sat, Sept 12.

The Great American Yard Sales is scheduled for Sat, Sept 19 from 9 AM to 3 PM. Brandy Griffis is point person. The location is the building located on Rt 22:

8432 Old 3c Highway
Maineville, OH 45039

We hope to get a key and alarm code for the building so that we can begin to move items into the building in advance. PLEASE let Brandy know that you can help with many aspects of this even now at bgriffis@fseinc.net. She needs some people to help coordinating now. We will need a lot of help on the event date so let Brandy know if you can do that please as well. Samples of KAH food, t-shirts for sale, baked goods sales, collecting money, etc.... This event will be one of our major and much needed fundraisers for the year. Your help is greatly appreciated. If you have items you would like to donate to be sold at the yard sale, please drop off at the "factory" Aug 22 or Sept 12.

Please pray for the food being shipped to Swaziland. We have sent 4 shipping containers of food for these kids, the good news is that the food is in Swaziland. Prayers are needed to quickly get access to the trains so the food can be delivered to the care points.

Great American Yard Sale - Sept 19

Just heard this morning that the building at 8432 Old 3c Hwy Maineville, OH 45039 has donated their location for the Great American Yard Sale Event on Sat, Sept 19!

All proceeds will go to Kids Against Hunger-Cincinnati, as you know our donations are down and we very much need this financial help. We will need lots of help the day of the event as well as preparing in advance.

For more info on the Great American Yard Sale to benefit KAH-Cincy, please visit http://www.achildshopeintl.org/YardSale.html More details will be forthcoming, but please contact KAH@achildshopeintl.org if you would like to help in any capacity.

July 25, 2009

On Saturday July 25, there was a big storm in the AM that knocked the electricity out for a bit. Emergency lights came on and volunteers sat in the dark while the computer projected the training video! Paul eventually got the lights on (they take time to reset) and we were back in action! We had several groups from local churches as well as a group that came to celebrate a birthday party, together we packed 31,536 meals for starving kids around the world. Thank you to all who volunteered! We are only 43,944 meals from hitting the 1.5 million meal mark!!!

July 18, 2009

A special thanks to the youth group from Milford Bible Church in Pennsylvania who conducted their own packing session on Saturday! All by themselves they packed 20,088 meals! We had to close the team down at 11:30 AM, otherwise they would easily have packed 3+ pallets! Not only did they help with a financial donation to pay for some of the ingredients they packed, but they also set up and cleaned up the factory!!! Thanks guys!

More good news...... 10 pallets of food (71,280 meals) destined for the Jean Cadet Restavek Foundation in Haiti left the warehouse this afternoon. This shipment will arrive at Mission Harvest America in Jacksonville FL late tomorrow!

Saturday's packers from Milford Bible Church

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July 11, 2009

On July 11, 2009 Kids Against Hunger - Cincinnati celebrated our one year anniversary at the "Factory" located in the Berean Christian Stores natonal support center. To celebrate we had a very successful packing session with 35,372 meals prepared!

It has been quite a year! Over 3000 volunteers used 100 tons of ingredients to make over 1.4 million meals! And hundreds of donors helped by giving as generously as they could.

All of this would not have happened without the help of the leadership and staff at Berean. Working together, we witnessed a miracle of multiplication.

Thank you!

June 27, 2009

Saturday, June 27, 2009 was another great day at the factory! A total of 31,968 meals were packed and ready to be shipped!! Both the AM & PM sessions were full of volunteers ready to make a difference in the lives of children around the world. The packing was a bit more spirited in the afternoon as the PM packers were trying to prepare more meals than the AM session did. The AM packers did win by preparing 17,280 meals.....in 2 hours! Thanks to everyone that served on Saturday, you are appreciated.