FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN

Hope Starts With Food

BREAKING NEWS!!!

Our Mobile Packing event was held on December 16th and 17th in the Gathering Place.

La Casa de Cristo has had six mobile packing events and has packed / provided 1,391,690 meals for starving children around the world to date.

Friday, Dec 15

Setup:
11-12pm
12pm – 2pm

Saturday, Dec 16

Packing Sessions:
10am – 12pm
1pm – 3pm
4pm – 6pm

Sunday, Dec 17

Packing Sessions:
10am – 12pm
1pm – 3pm
4pm – 6pm

Clean-up: 
5:30 – 8pm

Achievements

2016 Mobile Pack: 136,000 meals
2018 Mobile Pack: 150,120 meals
2019 Mobile Pack: 87,264 meals
2022 Mobile Pack: 127,224 meals
2022 ASU Pack: 50,000 meals
2023 Mobile Pack – 132,192 meals
Total – 1,391,690

To date, La Casa has given
$170,133.64
That’s enough to pay for 708,890
meals or feed 1,933 kids for 1 year!
Way to go La Casa!

FAQs

Click here to see all the available shifts on FMSC’s website using the code LCDC

Yes! Invite your family, friends, coworkers, neighbors, or small group to sign up for a packing shift with you so you can pack at the same station.

Absolutely! The minimum age for volunteers is 5 years old. Please follow these age guidelines:

  • Kindergarten-2nd grade: 1 student to 1 adult
  • 3rd-6th grade: 3 students to 1 adult
  • 7th-9th grade: 4 students to 1 adult
  • 10th-12th grade: 5 students to 1 adult

Plan to arrive 10-15 minutes before your shift for registration. Park in the lot just south of the Gathering Place. 

You’ll be greeted by friendly volunteers and staff to help you check-in and give you a cool hair net to wear while you pack.

Your gift goes a long way in the fight against world hunger. Each meal costs less than 29 cents. $106 feeds a child for an entire year.

Make sure you wear closed-toe shoes, and leave your jewelry/valuables at home (you’ll be asked to remove any jewelry before packing). Other than that, just dress comfortably!

Yes! You can be part of our labeling crew and put FMSC stickers on each bag before it’s filled with food. This is a vital step to the packing process, and you can sit while doing it.

If you’re allergic to soy, unfortunately, you won’t be able to pack. BUT we’d love to have join the labeling crew for your shift and help us put FMSC labels on each bag before it’s filled with food. This is a vital step to the packing process in an allergen-free zone!

FMSC offers volunteers a one-of-a-kind experience. You’ll hand-pack rice, soy, dried vegetables and a nutritionally complete blend of vitamins and minerals into bags which are then sealed, boxed, placed on pallets and shipped to our incredible partners working hard to reach the neediest children around the world.

Each package contains rice and an assortment of nutritious vegetables. It also contains Vitamin D, Calcium, Iron, Potassium, Vitamins A, C, E, as well as Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, and Vitamin B6

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