May 1, 2017 at 5:34 p.m.
MobilePack left volunteers smiling
Editorial
You could probably identify people today who took part in Saturday’s mobile pack for Feed My Starving Children.
They are the ones with smiles on their faces.
Anyone who participated knows what we’re talking about.
Spearheaded by the Jay County High School chapter of the National Honor Society, the event was awe-inspiring.
Dedicated high school students with outstanding faculty leadership took the project to heart, raised something like $30,000 over a period of several months, and organized a day-long event involving more than 600 volunteers.
The end result: More than 132,000 nutritious, individually packed meals bound for hungry children.
That is simply extraordinary by any measure.
Think about it for a moment. Think back, reader, to when you were in high school. Could you have ever imagined taking on a project of that scope? Could you have ever imagined completing it?
Those involved will tell you it took a lot of help.
Volunteers sitting on bleachers in the JCHS auxiliary gym on Saturday could not help but look at a banner on the wall that spelled out how the students met their goal.
Churches, service clubs, sororities, businesses and individuals contributed. And the kids went to work every way they could think of, buying into the project with their own labor.
The spirit on that banner was mirrored Saturday by the volunteer effort for the pack itself.
Families, groups from work, students, church groups, clubs and organizations, you name it, they were all represented. Volunteers in their 60s or higher found themselves working with volunteers in elementary school, all for a common goal.
This was Jay County’s first mobile pack event for Feed My Starving Children. Our guess is it won’t be the last. South Adams Schools, which took on the project a couple of years ago, has already completed a second pack.
That’s because there was one other end result Saturday in addition to those 132,000-plus meals: All those smiles on the faces of volunteers who were so happy to have been a part of it. — J.R.
They are the ones with smiles on their faces.
Anyone who participated knows what we’re talking about.
Spearheaded by the Jay County High School chapter of the National Honor Society, the event was awe-inspiring.
Dedicated high school students with outstanding faculty leadership took the project to heart, raised something like $30,000 over a period of several months, and organized a day-long event involving more than 600 volunteers.
The end result: More than 132,000 nutritious, individually packed meals bound for hungry children.
That is simply extraordinary by any measure.
Think about it for a moment. Think back, reader, to when you were in high school. Could you have ever imagined taking on a project of that scope? Could you have ever imagined completing it?
Those involved will tell you it took a lot of help.
Volunteers sitting on bleachers in the JCHS auxiliary gym on Saturday could not help but look at a banner on the wall that spelled out how the students met their goal.
Churches, service clubs, sororities, businesses and individuals contributed. And the kids went to work every way they could think of, buying into the project with their own labor.
The spirit on that banner was mirrored Saturday by the volunteer effort for the pack itself.
Families, groups from work, students, church groups, clubs and organizations, you name it, they were all represented. Volunteers in their 60s or higher found themselves working with volunteers in elementary school, all for a common goal.
This was Jay County’s first mobile pack event for Feed My Starving Children. Our guess is it won’t be the last. South Adams Schools, which took on the project a couple of years ago, has already completed a second pack.
That’s because there was one other end result Saturday in addition to those 132,000-plus meals: All those smiles on the faces of volunteers who were so happy to have been a part of it. — J.R.
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