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On Oct. 21 and 22 Redeemer Lutheran Church will be packaging food for Feed My Starving Children, a non-profit organization that provides pre-packaged dry meals for the hungry and malnourished.
The meals, funded by volunteers, cost less than a quarter to make. The church is asking members of the congregation as well as members of the Spokane community to help pack more than 100,000 MannaPack meals.
According to the church website, “This is a way for all of us in the Spokane community to help the hungry around the world.”
Four work sessions will be held at the church, 3606 S Schafer Road in Spokane Valley. The church is also seeking funds for the project.
Tracy Simmons is an award winning journalist specializing in religion reporting, digital entrepreneurship and social journalism. In her 15 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti.
Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas and Connecticut. Currently she serves as the executive director of SpokaneFAVS.com, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Wash. She is also a Scholarly Assistant Professor at Washington State University.
