WOW!

On Saturday, Blaze and many of Aldersgate's members joined 1100 other volunteers on the campus of Virginia Wesleyan College to participate in the Stop Hunger Now project to prepare over 280,000 meals for shipment overseas. For several hours, teams kept 50 lbs. bags of food supplies heading out to the 70 stations throughout the Batton Hall gymnasium, where other teams worked together to mix soy, rice, dried vegetables, and vitamins into plastic pouches. Runners then took the filled pouches to teams that sealed them, while still others boxed them up and loaded them onto a 18-wheeler waiting outside. By early afternoon, most everyone had left the gymnasium either sore, tired, or both, but all seemed so very grateful to have been part of such a meaningful undertaking.