A Hunger Challenge is a large event, held on-site in your community, where many volunteers work together in two-hour shifts to assemble packages of dehydrated food to send to starving children and families. We bring all of the equipment and materials to your school, church or other large building and ship it out directly from there. How much food can we package?
Our goal is to package at least one shipping container during a Hunger Challenge event. A 20 foot shipping container can hold 660 boxes for a total 142,560 meals. A 40 foot shipping container – (What is a shipping container?) – will hold as many as 1,320 boxes, for a total of 285,120 meals. Each individual registers for a specific two-hour time slot and pays $65 to cover the cost of the food ingredients he will package during that time.
Each assembly line group of 12 people will package 12 boxes of food during the two-hour time period. Therefore, each person packages one box of food – 216 meals – during his time slot. If you have 1,000 volunteers, you will assemble 1,000 boxes.
How does it work?
Depending on the size of your facility, we will set up three to eight assembly lines of 12 people each to package the food. Each person has a specific job • pour in the ingredients • weigh the bags • seal the bags • place the bags in boxes and stack them on a pallet
What type of facility is needed?
A gymnasium, large auditorium, or fellowship hall works well for a Hunger Challenge. We will ship some of the ingredients to your location ahead of time, so you will need a place to store the material for up to two weeks before to the event. It is ideal to have a loading dock, but not imperative. We also need a separate room for orientation meetings. This room would need sufficient space for one session of volunteers (36 – 96 people) seated in rows.
Where does the food go?
We ship this nutritious food directly to Christian missionary partners that we know and trust in key parts of the world. The food is always distributed freely in the name of Jesus Christ.
Hosting a Hunger Challenge will help you challenge your church and/or community to put their faith into action. In a very practical and tangible way, you can play a significant part in feeding people who are starving.
8 weeks prior to the event, 80% of the necessary funds must be raised and paid to HSM so we can order the needed ingredients and have them shipped to your location.
For more information about hosting a Hunger Challenge event, email Lynda at lynda@hsminc.org
Heaven Sent Ministries PO Box 5392 Princeton, WV 24740 Phone: (877) 525-4476
