Youthfront Feed the Hunger

In taking a moment to pray for those in Haiti.

A great weekend of support for packaging food for Haiti.  We have another night open for people to help. Feel free to check out the pictures below.

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Youthfront had its last scheduled day of public packaging on Sunday, January 31, and we had an initial goal of packaging 200,000 meals. We are amazed to announce that Kansas City’s response to Youthfront’s Feed the Hunger Haiti Initiative was unbelievable. Together we have packaged 302,832 meals to send to Haiti.

The momentum behind this initiative is so strong we have decided to extend it for one more day of packaging; this Wednesday, February 3 will be sixth and final day for public packaging. Group registration for Wednesday is available online.

Groups can sign up to package by clicking here.

A big thanks to those who came out to package and volunteer over the last two weeks. We have seen over 2500 people and over 100 different groups from the Kansas City area and all the way up to Lincoln, Nebraska have join us in this initiative.

In less than a month’s time, Kansas City, as one small part of the global body of Christ could send as many as half a million meals to our starving brothers and sisters in Haiti. That is remarkable. God is good!

However, our work is not finished. We are planning to send out our first container in mid-February through TouchGlobal. They are on the ground, awaiting our shipment to distribute these meals to those most vulnerable individuals further inland who have not received much of the aid that has been stuck in Port Au Prince.  We are also working right now with an ongoing partnership with The Global Orphan Project. We plan to send ongoing shipments to a number of orphanages that they have set up in Haiti among local faith communities. It has been amazing to see the hand of God opening doors throughout this process.

In addition to the all attention that Youthfront’s Feed the Hunger Haiti Initiative has received from the local news media, we have and will continue to document each step of this journey, and we fully anticipate to be able to show and tell this narrative as it unravels. We have been given tangible invitation to join the story of God’s justice and mercy to Haiti and around the world. This is a story that illustrates how through the responses of passionate youth, God brought a city together to proclaim our faith and join with the voices of those in Haiti, who amidst tragedy and devastation sing praises to a faithful God, who provides and Restores.

As the coverage of Haiti may begin to dwindle in the media, the need for ongoing sustainable relief will continue for months and months. Youthfront wants to invite you to continue to support this relief initiative by hosting a Feed the Hunger Haiti Initiative packaging line. Youthfront has 37 packaging lines set up in the auditorium right now, and we hope set up all 37 lines at satellite locations: churches, schools, community centers throughout the city. Imagine having a FTH line in your church lobby youth room, or class room for the next month as a service and spiritual formation opportunity. We are continuing to develop a full media experiential curriculum to accompany the individual lines. We will have that curriculum available as soon as possible.


For more information on how you can get involved with the ongoing Haiti Initiative, visit www.Youthfront.com/feedthehunger, or if you would like to have a Feed the Hunger packaging line brought to you to use at your location, please contact Kendon McBee, Director Feed the Hunger at kmcbee@youthfront.com.


Thanks for all your prayer and support & May God Bless the work of your hands!

Your friends at Youthfront

Feel free to click on an image below to see pictures from the first few days of food packaging for Haiti.  Thank you to the area churches, families, youth groups, clubs teams, and individuals who have joined together to provide food for the people of Haiti following such a devastating earthquake.  We look forward to continuing these efforts over the coming weeks and months. 

Your friends at Youthfront.

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