{"id":2657,"date":"2013-12-05T11:41:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T19:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2014-01-14T20:15:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T04:15:25","slug":"confirmed-our-121000-meals-went-to-the-phillipines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/confirmed-our-121000-meals-went-to-the-phillipines","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed: Our 121,000+ meals went to the Phillipines."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"StopHungerNowPhilippines\"<\/a>We packed 121,000+ meals on October 20th just in time to be sent to the Philippines, probably through Divine guidance. \u00a0Below is a confirming letter from Christopher Romero of\u00a0Stop Hunger Now:<\/p>\n

“Subject: Your Meals Have Shipped to the Philippines!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friends of Stop Hunger Now,<\/p>\n

We are delighted to announce that the meals from your respective meal packaging events have been shipped in a container totaling 285,120 meals from our San Leandro, California warehouse.<\/p>\n

Convoy of Hope, a 501(c)3 faith-based nonprofit, has served more than 55 million people throughout the world through international children’s feeding initiatives, community outreaches, disaster response and partner resourcing. Through the cooperation of their local partners, Convoy of Hope is able to feed nearly forty-five thousand children a week in the Philippines and five thousand children every day.\u00a0Click here to read the entire letter to Memorial<\/abbr> from Stop Hunger Now.<\/a>

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Alongside these feeding programs, Convoy of Hope also distributes water filters and conducts lessons in proper hygiene including the washing of hands and feet and keeping living environments safe and clean. In response to the recent tragedy in the Philippines, Convoy of Hope is responding with Stop Hunger Now meals and other aid to provide relief to those affected.<\/span><\/p>\n

Please see www.convoyofhope.org<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n

Visit www.stophungernow.org<\/a> for more information on how to continue your involvement in the fight against hunger and follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com\/stophungernow for updates, videos and photos from the field.<\/p>\n

Thank you for generously donating your time as a volunteer with Stop Hunger Now. We are sincerely grateful for your dedication and for sharing our vision of a world without hunger. If this is your second notification email then it simply means that a portion of your meals have gone to impact multiple programs.<\/p>\n

Gratefully,<\/p>\n

Stop Hunger Now
Christopher Romero
Northern California Program Manager | Stop Hunger Now
1567 Alvarado St. | San Leandro, CA 94577
415.992.7776 office
www.stophungernow.org<\/a>“<\/div><\/p>\n

UPDATE: We have fully paid Stop Hunger Now for the 120,000 meals. Thank you for your donations!. \u00a0You may still donate to Stop Hunger now for their on-going efforts to\u00a0relieve\u00a0hunger around the world. \u00a0Mail checks to\u00a0Memorial<\/abbr> UMC<\/abbr>, 1726 Pollasky, Clovis, CA 93612 or Donate NOW<\/a> via credit card.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To read entire letter, open this post<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We packed 121,000+ meals on October 20th just in time to be sent to the Philippines, probably through Divine guidance. \u00a0Below is a confirming letter from Christopher Romero of\u00a0Stop Hunger Now: “Subject: Your Meals Have Shipped to the Philippines! Friends of Stop Hunger Now, We are delighted to announce that the meals from your respective […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[25,31,19,22,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-2657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-what-happened-event-over","7":"category-event-announcements","8":"tag-disaster","9":"tag-food","10":"tag-hunger","11":"tag-philippines","12":"tag-relief","13":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 22:02:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}