December 3, 2024 • 39 mins
Join us as we explore the impactful work of Feed My Starving Children, where volunteers of all ages come together to pack life-saving meals for families in communities across Latin America and the Caribbean. Through personal stories and the energy of the distribution center, we highlight the relentless dedication of this organization, which operates tirelessly to turn hunger into hope (with your two hands). This Giving Tuesday episode, learn about simple acts of giving transforms lives around the world. (foodforthepoor.org/givingtuesday)
The remarkable global impact of Feed My Starving Children is amplified through their partnership with Food for the Poor, as ministry partners, committed to distributing nourishment and hope. We celebrate Feed My Starving Children's monumental achievement of delivering over 4 billion meals globally, underscoring the power of collaboration with local pastors and ministry partners in places like Jamaica, Tanzania and war-torn Ukraine. Delve into the profound conversation about how this partnership offers not just a handout but a hand up, and the spiritual growth that accompanies this mission, resonating deeply with the ethos of interdenominational ministries.
Volunteering doesn't just change the lives of those who receive help—it transforms the givers too. Hear the inspiring stories of teenage volunteers, whose early involvement in charitable activities has cultivated a lifelong commitment to helping others. Their journeys to Jamaica to see the impact of their work firsthand are a testament to the power of community and the spirit of giving. Whether it's the versatility of Mannapak meals or the tireless efforts of organizations serving as safety nets in countries where Food For The Poor serves, this episode highlights how volunteering can create hope and joy for everyone involved.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
We're all inspired by our human connection that
arises when we share food withothers.
So what's on your heart becomesa hub for truly heartfelt
conversation.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Tertulia, as they say in Spanish, fostering genuine
bonds between individuals,creating that sense of community
and connection.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
I'm Paul Jacobs, your podcast co-host, ready to
inspire you by conversationsthat nourish the soul as we go
beyond the plate.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm Daniel Patino, welcoming you to join us for
some truly inspiring tertulia.
Get ready to satisfy thatcraving for connection and
inspiration as we dive intotopics that aren't only broaden
your perspective but also deepenyour understanding of lives of
families in Latin America, theCaribbean or even in your own
backyard.
So, wherever our conversationstake us, come along for the ride
and let's go Beyond the Platetogether.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Hey guys, it's Giving Tuesday and what an amazing
Thanksgiving we all had, right.
Well, we have an amazingepisode that was recorded not
too long ago with our friendsfrom Feed my Starving Children.
We actually got on a plane toRichardson, Texas, to meet with
the amazing team from Feed myStarving Children.
We actually got on a plane toRichardson, Texas, to meet with
the amazing team from Feed myStarving Children and it was a
party that they had going on atFeed my Starving Children when
(01:10):
we were arriving.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I'm pretty sure it wasn't for us, but it was a
party to feed families in LatinAmerica, the Caribbean and
throughout the world that needus the most.
So I hope you enjoy thisepisode with our friends from
Feed my Starving Children.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
So let's a big shout out to our friends at the
Richardson Distribution Centerfor Feed my Starving Children.
Larissa, the amazing team from.
Feed my Starving Children.
Richardson, that's a commonname to us here at Food for the
Poor, but probably for many ofyou, if you've been living on
(01:45):
the fourth rock from the sun,the third rock from the sun, you
don't know about Feed myStarving Children.
Where have you been?
These guys took us on anamazing tour of their facility.
We'll talk a little bit aboutthe organization, but I was just
amazed by the fact that when wewere there, we got there and
they were so gracious to kind ofwalk us around, because we've
(02:06):
been involved with Feed myStarving Children here at Food
for the Poor for wow, almost,you know, more than 15 years.
But what is really cool is Isaw on the wall Luke, chapter 1,
verse 37.
For nothing is impossible withGod.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I loved it Right, I loved it.
I felt like I was coming out ofa locker room.
Yes, like a, you know, abasketball locker room a
football locker room, a soccerlocker room, nothing is
impossible.
And everybody's smacking thesign and saying, yes, I get it,
and following those wordscompletely, totally.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
And then of course, the dozens of elementary school
kids on a field trip.
That was amazing.
To pack food, I mean like, okay, so you talk about your.
I'm going to give you a second.
I want you to tell me yourquickly your best field trip
ever in elementary school.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
We went to all right.
So I lived in South Florida allmy life.
Yep Grew up, school, all thethings.
So Everglades the Evergladeswas the one thing I mean,
because it's just, it'sbountiful, it covers a lot of
area and just all the animalsthat are there that usually just
see in textbooks.
You know you're pointing at anibis, You're pointing at an
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alligator, it's not the same.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
It's not something.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yes, when we went, it was amazing because they took
us up and close and personalwith an alligator.
It wasn't a 10-foot gator, itwas a 10-inch little baby gator
and the mouth is tied but nobodycan touch that thing, and I
think that was one of thecoolest ones, because I really
learned something.
To this day it stays with meand I think that was the last
time I really went into theEverglades as a student, as
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somebody who wants to learnabout the Everglades and its
history and what it really is,how big part of it it is to
South Florida, but not like this.
No, no, no, no, not like this.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Nope, nope, nope, nope.
And every one of these kidswere like screaming, they're
excited, they're like more rice,and you know, and more protein
powder.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Like Wall Street in the kitchen, I need more sauce.
Yes, chef.
Protein powder.
Like Wall Street in the kitchen, I need more sauce.
Yes, chef, I need more sauce.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I need more meal no, it was a buzz.
It was a buzz I mean itaffected me when we both of us
right.
And then of course we finishedwith that and I remember walking
upstairs and the cool part waswe saw the very first ever
Manipac rice meal.
It's kind of like when you gointo a restaurant and you see
that dollar bill.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
They were hiding it.
They should have put yeah, Iknow what you're talking about.
It's like their first check,the first time they get money,
and it's the first dollar orsomething for some.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Do you remember?
People autographed it, Whoeverit was that packed it?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
they autographed it.
We asked who of that picture isstill here.
Some of them I've moved along.
Some of them I've moved along,but it's a capsule, right, it's
a moment in time and a reminderof the generosity, the power
behind generosity and how itmotivates people to just get out
of their skin and do somethingfor others.
(04:58):
And they have that all nice andframed and right before they go
into the office, like youmentioned.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Right and you walk in upstairs and then, of course,
the thing that got me was weasked the question or I think
you asked the question how manytimes do they do this?
It's five times per day, sixdays a week.
I don't think there are a lotof restaurants that are open
less than this.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Five times, five packing sessions a day, six days
a week more than likely ifyou're listening to this podcast
at any point of the day ornight.
Yeah, there is probably asession going on, obviously
working hours, but they had ifyou listen to this already right
before bedtime.
Trust me, today there was, youknow, five different groups,
(05:42):
five different age groups aswell, because, because, like you
mentioned, when we went in, itwas elementary school kids.
I got a six-year-old at homeand I saw my daughters, you know
, just doing this with theexcitement they were playing
music.
It was a party, a party youdon't want to miss out.
And then, all of a sudden, wesee a new group, right, and it's
the local, I don't know, thelocal bingo shop.
(06:02):
Let out, right, it looked likemy ideas and my egos coming in
and working it the same way thekids did, with the same
enthusiasm.
The party, the noise, Just theatmosphere of giving is just.
It was palpable.
You were like I'm going to dothis, I'm going to get in.
I'm shaking my shoulders nowthinking about it.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And you remember, when I nudged you, there was a
corner of the group that waspacking and helping.
Everyone had differentassignments.
But then there was that groupthere that looked like they had
some developmental challenges,right, but they were there just
with all the rest of the kidsdoing their thing.
I don't know exactly what wasgoing on, but you obviously knew
there was something uniqueabout them, right?
(06:42):
And I was like, oh wow, howawesome that nobody's left out,
nobody.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
No, no, no, you are totally 100% correct.
Where it's, nobody is left out,and I just love the inspiration
that some of you know I'm notgoing to give away just yet.
It's a little teaser, rightSome of the inspiration that
some of the people that workthere were just oozing of with,
and the kids picked it up, theadults picked it up, everybody
(07:07):
in between picked it up, andthen one of those moments were
right before those packing eventends.
They're like all right, guys,don't forget your help today
helped, and they show thenumbers on the screen and I mean
I don't know if it resonateswith some of those kids, but I
know at least out of the 20,there's got to be at least one,
yeah, right, one that says wow,mom, you know what I did today?
(07:28):
Yeah, I fed a family in theother side of the country that
I'm probably you and I wouldnever be.
Yeah, but my hand was in it andmy hand is now helping somebody
else at the other side of theworld.
I mean, I'm excited about it,thinking of it once again and I
want to go back.
The idea is to go back andwe're going to help you go back
through this podcast and throughtoday's episode because it's
(07:51):
otra cosa, it's some other worldthat you didn't think was in
our own backyard.
You know, richardson, texas isvery near to us.
It might be far Lejos, peronunca a la distancia, a la
distancia, a la distancia, peronunca lejos is what I was trying
to say.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I'm trying to teach you that saying before I leave
today.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
So it's very far, but never out of hand's reach or
arm's reach right.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Oh man, I want to go back.
So here we go.
Our ministry partner, feed myStarving Children, just kind of
a little bit about them.
They're a Christian ministrySciences they've developed these
non-perishable meal packs thatcan be assembled, packed and
shipped across the world.
Wait, wait, wait, wow.
Let me say it again, I didn'tsay across the street, I didn't
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say across the state, across theworld.
That particular day, I believeit was Tanzania, that shipment
that was going out going toTanzania, africa, powerful right
.
That shipment that was goingout going to Tanzania, africa,
powerful right.
They're partnered with fooddistribution networks that
(08:54):
extend the food but also extendthe gospel around the world.
I told you Luke, chapter 1,verse 37, right there up on the
wall.
And most recently our work withFeed my Starving Children here
at Food for the Poor came in theform of sending food, and of
course we do so much.
But I remember specificallysending food into war-torn
(09:14):
Ukraine.
I mean it was a very touchingtime for us because Ukraine's
halfway across the world.
Food for the Poor works inLatin America and the Caribbean,
primarily Latin America and theCaribbean.
But we couldn't say no when welooked at our brothers and
sisters in need, right.
And then we had a ministrypartner that was there on the
ground and I love a quote fromone of their executives who we
(09:37):
actually are going to befeaturing on our upcoming
episode.
But it said he said feed mystarving children.
Don't enter with tanks and M16s.
Get this, but box trucks,pallets of food and the gospel
for people in bomb shelters anddestroyed cities Drop the mic.
We could end the podcast rightthere.
(09:58):
We won't, but I mean but I meanpowerful, it's strong, powerful
, it's really strong.
And food but I mean powerful,it's strong, powerful, really
strong.
And food, by starving childrenand food for the poor.
Um, when their founder came, Iremember specifically, um, he
simply had one question to theexecutives at the time, more
than 15 years ago how can wehelp you?
They asked us that's wonderful,and you want to give them that.
(10:22):
That, that last step.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
This is my favorite.
Thank you for leaving it for me.
That was something else and, uh, this was as of 2022, so not
too long ago.
All right, more than 3.1billion billion with a b.
What meals sent globally?
Wow, okay, so the probably what?
The 30 minutes that we we gotto see the kids working on it?
(10:45):
Yeah, times that, like you said, five days a week, five times a
day, six times a week, 365 daysthat's how you get to 3.1
billion meals.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
That Feed my Starving Children has sent around the
world.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
So since I already said that number, that number
has changed, just to let youknow, increased.
Yes, for the good, for the good, for the good, of course it's
gone up.
Feed my Starving Children doeswhat their name entails.
Yeah, feed Our StarvingChildren.
Feed Our Starving Children, ourfamilies, families like you and
I, families that Food for thePoor has helped over 40 years
plus.
And Feed my Starving Childrenhas been along for the ride.
(11:22):
I Feed my Starving Children hasbeen along for the ride.
I mean for the mission to help,to help, more than just a
handout, right?
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
It's a hand up with these meals, and I love that
last line where Food for thePoor steps in.
Since the time that we've beenworking with them, one billion
of those meals.
Okay, just get your head aroundthat.
And it's not to break our armspatting ourselves on the back
here.
So, just okay, just get yourhead around that.
And it's not to break our armspatting ourselves on the back
here, but to understand theimpact of the partnership that
we have and why this was soimportant for us to meet with
them.
That one out of every threemeals in these, in the history
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of Feed my Starving Children,has gone through the hands of
Food for the Poor tobeneficiaries that Food for the
Poor serves on the groundthrough pastors, local ministry
and trusted ministry partners.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And it's making it easier for Food for the Poor to
go into these countries and sayyou're going to get help today,
tomorrow, next week and a wholeyear from now.
I mean I'm applauding loudly inmy head right now for Feed my
Starving Children.
That's why I wear the Be Kindt-shirt so proud.
Get some of that stuff on.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
You can see.
What is that honey?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I'm sorry, I don't know, honey, I don't know what
you're calling me honey.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
All right, all right.
So here we go Back toRichardson, texas.
Right, it's one of many packingand distribution sites in the
country, in the United States,and we met some really awesome
people.
I mean, to me not all heroeswear capes and these were three
heroes, that two of them whichwe met at a Feed my Starving
Children pack here in SouthFlorida, just gosh, it's got to
(12:58):
be last year already and wediscussed with them kind of
their passion for the work andit's become kind of more than a
job for them.
I mean, would you say thatright?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
It's two different people two different times.
One of them is, I would justsay you know Caitlin, right?
We're naming names now, ofcourse.
Yes, of course, caitlin andMegan.
Caitlin and Megan were very,very special to us when we were
there at the installations ofFeed my Starving Children.
Caitlyn would say she's in themiddle of her career.
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She's already in the middle ofher life, looking for something
stable.
She lands with Feed my StarvingChildren and she is now part of
that family where Megan isstill trying to figure out life.
She's the younger one of thegroup.
You're 21 years old, stilltrying to figure out life.
She's the younger one of thegroup, 21 years old.
21 years old, still trying tofigure out where the next career
move is Come feed my starvingchildren and is guiding now, is
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guiding her now into justmaturing within this company,
within this generosity humongousplace of giving and getting
people fed, giving of peoplefuture, and she is all about
that.
I just I love them, I love themall.
When we met them and we got toshare, we got to share with the
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audience right Right.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
So we asked them.
The very first question waswhat's your why?
Everybody has a why.
So we asked Caitlin, we askedMegan what's your why?
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Ben Lansalo Just seeing the change in the
volunteers when they comethrough and hearing their
stories.
I've heard countless stories ofwhere people have been, and one
that sticks with me is this oneman who packed at a mobile pack
and he said he actually washomeless.
So he knows how it is to behungry and not have food.
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And he found a church and theytook him in, cleaned him up,
brought him in and now he'spacking food for kids who don't
have food as well.
So my why is hearing people'sstories, seeing the change in
their lives and then hearing thechange about the kids and the
lives around the world and thenhearing the change about the
kids and the lives around theworld.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
But my really big why is?
I went to college and I had areally unfortunate year with
lots of unfortunate lifecircumstances and I decided to
take a break because I was notin a good mental space.
But during that time I reallyfound my love for the Lord in a
deepened relationship with Him.
I mean, I grew up in church butI never knew what an adult,
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real relationship with Christwas like and I found so much
healing through Him after allthose circumstances and then it
was just so hard on my heart oflike doing something serving and
I had been praying to God like,what do you want me to do with
this break, with this time?
I feel like it's somethingserving.
And my mom, of course, was likeif you live at home, you have to
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have a job.
So she's sending me all thesedifferent, you know, like
websites and job applicationsand stuff and I see, feed my
Serving Children.
And I was like, oh, I love Feedmy Serving Children.
And I was like, oh, I love Feedmy Serving Children.
That's what I did when I was akid.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Jules and Amy talk about their family service as a
lifestyle and how, as Amy saidin the opening, anybody can
serve.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Ben blast off Service was always a central part of
our home.
Something we do together andeven like last weekend, we were
at an event and my family waspart of the host team and they,
like we all, like servingtogether.
On every holiday we serve, andso it's always been a very
central part of our household isthat, out of the abundance the
Lord has allowed us toexperience, to give to others
and to serve.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
This past weekend in Fort Worth there was a man with
dementia also, and it remindedme of my mom and she has since
passed away but he was able tosit at the label table and label
and give back, even though hedidn't know what was going on
around him.
He was still able to give backand that is what I love about
this mission is anybody canserve.
(17:00):
We're all children of God.
Is anybody concerned?
We're all children of God.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
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Speaker 1 (18:23):
It's obvious to me when we were there that Feed my
Starving Children is doing somuch more than just sending food
to children and families.
It's changing lives, it'sfostering spirituality.
We here at Food for the Poor, ainterdenominational ministry
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that works across the line invarious churches and ministries,
but it's all for thepropagation of the gospel, it's
all for the building of ourspirituality.
I mean, matthew 25, 40 is thefoundational scripture.
How much more can you saybesides that that whatever
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you've done unto the least ofthese, you've done unto me?
And that's where we hear Amytalk a lot about the
spirituality of why they do whatthey do.
And I love this because, as Isat back, I heard of the
practical change that is takingplace in their lives through
these mobile packs, practicalchange that is taking place in
their lives through these mobilepacks, through the lives that
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they witnessed change.
But then I heard Amy, reallyfrom a place of a center, a true
north, if you will, ofspirituality, talk a little bit
about, well, her motivationspiritually to do what they do
at Feed my Starving Children.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Ben, fire up the engines.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
As kids are growing up, especially in the United
States.
We're given a lot, we have alot, and when we are given a lot
, a lot is required of us andkids just need to learn that
they can give back.
I have five kids of my own, Isee it.
They range from 10 to 24.
So I see all the generationsthat are coming up and just
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being able to serve and to beable to have that relationship
with Jesus Christ, like Megansays.
That is so important Because,just like Megan said, there is
so much going on in this world,they have so much to deal with
these days and just to be ableto give back is so special for
them and just it'll.
It'll stay with them a lifetimeto do that.
I mean, look at Jules Beenpacking since she was eight
(20:27):
years old it has stayed with herand so they come even once.
They're going to remember thatand they're going to want to
come back, andy Carr.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
VP of marketing for Feed my Starving Children.
This guy is funny and at thesame time I'm thinking to myself
if he ever does a podcast, Ithink that's direct competition
and I'm hoping we can beat thatcompetition.
But I digress.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
All right, this is what I want to do.
Once you get a chance to meetAndy Carr in these next few
moments, you'll probably wanthim to be a permanent part of
this podcast, but enjoy thismoment we had with Andy Carr,
vice President of Marketing forFeed my Starving Children.
What a guy.
Listen.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Well, this inspiration that I have here on
my t-shirt says be kind.
That is the one.
That's the number, probablynumber three, number four on a
lot of list of things to be apositive person on the next day,
but I want to join Andy Carr,vp of Marketing for Feed my
Starving Children today.
Thank you for joining us onthis wonderful day.
(21:28):
It's wonderful because you'reon today, that's right, welcome.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Well, thanks, guys, danny and Paul, it's an honor.
It's as we kind of started offtalking before we came on air.
You know, it's been a long timecoming, in the sense of I've
been down to your studios beforebut here I am in my office at
home in Minnesota.
But I think it just representshow connected we are across the
(21:54):
efforts that we're all out theredoing and sharing about the
incredible work of Food for thePoor, and Helping my Starving
Children is a part of that.
So I look forward to chattingwith you guys here today and to
all your listeners.
I'm thrilled to be a part of apartnership that has such
tremendous impact across theglobe.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Both Danny and I wanted to ask a very important
question, because we're going totalk a little bit about your
recent trip to our facilities inJamaica.
The bottom line is, and I'mhere wearing my shirt and the
question to you today is where'sour souvenirs?
I mean, did you bring anythingback from Jamaica for us, or
what's going on?
Speaker 6 (22:30):
I got a.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Jamaica mug here for those watching on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Anything Right?
Well, I didn't.
Must have been, didn't?
Javier and Karen come by youroffice?
And I mean I gave them an extrasuitcase full of Jamaican
coffee and Jamaican candy andall kinds of you know uh all,
all of the different, uh,jamaican spices.
You know, and so they might,you know.
(22:54):
Maybe they got held up incustoms because I didn't come on
to Minnesota, I didn't get tohang out with you guys down in
Florida.
So maybe we'll have to checkwith their maybe in their closet
or something.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
As my wife would say.
How convenient.
Yeah, I believe, andy.
Well, listen, you know,seriously, you know, we're just
really at in just absolute aweof the work that we get to do
together Feed my starvingchildren, food for the poor.
Just to give some statistics,this was in 2022.
(23:25):
3.4 billion for those of youthat did not hear me clearly,
that's billion with a B of meals.
Since the inception of thispartnership, where Feed my
Starving Children has sent out3.4 billion meals across the
globe and, of that, Food for thePoor has been a part of sending
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more than a billion of thosemeals into the countries where
Food for the Poor serves.
Would that be accurate insaying that, andy?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
That is accurate and breaking news.
As you quoted a statistic there.
From 2022, that number hascontinued to climb rapidly, and
just at the end of last year, in2023, and stepping into the
first part of 2024, we havecrested the 4 billion meal mark.
So God is continuing to provideand we are continuing to act,
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and because you know there'stremendous need, global hunger
is greater than any time inhuman history.
The number of people on thisplanet that are in need of food
today, by sheer numbers, isgreater than it's ever been, and
the great thing about that isthis is not like we're searching
for the cure to cancer or anunsolvable problem when I tell
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people about how significanthunger is and think of it as a
disease.
We have the cure.
It is food, and there is plentyof food to go around for
everybody.
It's a matter of distributionand there is lots of reasons
that we could go into why it'snot in the right places, but we
know this, especially for kids,that we're not going to sit idly
by while that happens, thatthere's people that can't care
(25:06):
for themselves or need a hand up, and so, with amazing partners
like you, food for the Poor,over a billion meals Think about
that.
That's a number that you justcan't get your head around.
But you know what?
God knows every one of thosekids and those people that have
received that bowl of foodbecause of your actions and the
actions of the people that comealongside of us.
So we have the cure.
(25:26):
Don't sit idly by.
Act now, because we can helppeople.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Powerful.
You know, one of the things welove is the versatility of these
Manipac meals, also for thefamilies You're talking about
just in your trip to Jamaica andwe're not even going back to
other places that you've beenaround the world but Manipac
Meals in communities feeding innutritional centers, homeless on
the streets, those who arechildren of special needs, every
(25:52):
case, every condition andalmost every environment.
This isn't a one-size-fits-allwith these Manipac Meals,
because it truly is crossing orexpanding its reach into
wherever someone has a need.
As you said, no communicablediseases, no genetic disorders,
it's just hunger and food.
(26:13):
Am I missing anything?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
No, you're not.
It's that simple, paul.
I mean, and it's an issue thatI think a lot of people kind of
look out their window in theWest, or in the US in particular
, and they see food insecurity,they see people that might have
needs, but we're talking a wholedifferent level of simply
(26:36):
people that have the ultra poorthat live on less than a couple
bucks a day, ultra poor thatlive on less than a couple bucks
a day.
You know, we have access andsafety nets in so many places
and I'll tell you, I can sayfirsthand, in Jamaica, food for
the poor is the safety net andso for us to help resource food
for the poor, if you took foodfor the poor out of Jamaica,
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there would be tens of hundredsof thousands of people on the
brink of disaster, would be tensof hundreds of thousands of
people on the brink of disaster.
I saw it firsthand.
You guys are that network andare that gold standard of help
for people at all levels of need.
That is just incredible, and myhat's off to the vision that
the Mahfoud family had andsetting the course in Jamaica
(27:20):
that has expanded well beyondthat.
But firsthand, you have turnedthat country around and the
people in Jamaica are extremelygrateful.
Everywhere we went, when wewere part of Food for the Poor,
they were like wow, thank youguys for being here.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
There was something that was in the DNA of Feed my
Starving Children that we foundout, and we heard this, and we
heard it several times, and weheard it even in your trip to
Jamaica, and I want you toexplain this.
We turn hunger into hope withour two hands.
Yeah, tell us a little bitabout that.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah, you know, the beauty about Femalist Starving
Children is, it's a very simplething, as we've described the,
the solution of food, vitamins,vegetables, soy and rice that
come together in this bag, um,but, but what we found is is
here on this side of the bag.
I talked that that we feed onboth sides of this bag, the, the
(28:15):
bag of food that feeds the, thematerial body, uh, in those
that are starving, um, but thepeople on this side of the bag
that are activated with your owntwo hands.
What's lacking in this worldtremendously is hope.
And who is hope?
You know?
Obviously, jesus, that comes inthe bread of life.
(28:35):
But how you activate people tounderstand that is a way that
when people come together, theyput on those wonderful hairnets
which I?
Those hairnets, yes, I'mtelling you what I mean.
You know, if you, if you don'tthink that that you've had, you
haven't had fun until you put ona hairnet.
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
It transforms you, it does, it really does, it is,
and the beard one, if you rockall.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Both.
For you viewers here orlisteners, I should say that
don't have the pleasure ofseeing this.
Yeah, I am completely bald andI get to put on a hairnet and I
get to say that's a wishfulthinking.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I get to put on a hairnet, I get to put on a
hairnet.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Right, I get to put on a hairnet, but I don't want
to miss out on the fun Because,honestly, here's what happens,
guys.
Here's what happens when you,you turn hunger into hope, you
actively participate with yourown two hands and you see, what
happens often in our world, inour country, is people get
information coming in throughtheir ears and through their
(29:37):
eyes and it bounces around intheir head and they don't know
what to do.
Well, we know what to do.
Come and put on a hairnet, useyour hands, and what's going to
happen?
You're going to have joyexplode in your heart and your
spirit is going to be fed.
Now, here's a little secret.
I don't usually tell peoplethis, but when you put on that
hairnet, it's actually abrainwave inhibitor.
(29:58):
It slows down your brain sothat your hands can activate
your heart, because your heartis where you will experience the
joy of joys.
And when you turn hunger intohope, because that hope and you
find out right when you're donepacking here's how many kids
that you've helped feed todayand that food is real and it's
going to go somewhere and, asyou mentioned the statistics,
(30:20):
it's over 1.2 million people aday that get fed those very kind
of meals that you have helpedprepare.
If that didn't give you joy, Iwould just say why don't you
just stop and say what is itthat I need in my life that's
going to help me experience thejoy?
And I'll tell you.
Helping other people is goingto do that for you.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
And some of those stories that I was telling Danny
the other day.
I mean it'll make the hair onthe back of your arm stand up.
I mean it's just harrowing.
But what really got us curiousfrom this trip to Jamaica was
the connection that came throughthe eyes of two teenagers, a 12
and a 16-year-old.
Now, before you talk to usabout what they saw and what
(31:01):
they experienced, one of thethings that I can't I think we
can't get over is the fact thatI know what I was doing at 12
and at 16, and it wasn't goingto Jamaica to go feed some
families, you know, on my offtime, spring break.
Wherever, you know, whateverthe case may be, it was, it was
something totally different.
This is what caught ourattention.
(31:21):
So tell us a little bit aboutthese two young people that were
just amazing in their effortsto help families.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Yeah, two special people, Natalie and Brody, that
both came with their moms onthis trip.
And here's the cool thing aboutthem.
You see, when you participatein packing meals with Be my
Sturm Children, you can startdoing that when you're five
years old, and over half of ourvolunteers that actually come
and help put these mealstogether are kids.
These are kids that God isusing and, I believe, planting
(31:53):
the seeds for a better future.
You see, these kids that haveexperienced this, Natalie and
Brody.
Natalie grew up here in theTwin Cities of Minneapolis.
St Paul has relocated recentlyto Denver, Colorado, and two
stories you know.
Also, Brody is from Fargo,North Dakota, and has been up
there where both of these placeswe do things called mobile
(32:16):
packs.
You guys came and saw our sitewhere you were at in Richardson,
Texas.
But you've also seen when we'vecome down to South Florida and
done a packing event, and we'vedone multiple packing events
with food for the poor where wecome together.
Well, you see, Natalie andBrody, Natalie grew up packing
meals with feed my starvingchildren here.
When Natalie went back home toColorado the very next day she
(32:41):
went to a mobile pack inColorado.
They landed at like midnightand went and packed food.
They sent me the pictures Hermom and Natalie.
They had pictures of her thenext day at a mobile pack at her
school, a Christian school outin the Denver area.
Brody, who has been packingsince he was five years old.
We did an event in January inFargo, North Dakota.
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That was the 10th year they hadpacked meals and it was a 10
million meal mobile pack.
We had over 27,000 volunteersover a 10-day period that they
rented out the Fargo Dome, whereNorth Dakota State plays
football, and the whole footballfield was covered where over
2,000 people at a time wouldcome and pack meals.
(33:25):
And guess who was at every oneof those sessions?
Brody, why?
Because he knows the differencethat this makes and so he
wanted to be able to go see thisfood in action.
And so that's what both Natalieand Brody got to do and it was
wonderful.
Everywhere we went, the people.
(33:45):
They didn't want to hear froman old guy like me that was
numbers and all this I do Right,yeah, I mean we, but that isn't
that our hope, that we're doingthe same thing where we're
feeding kids, because these kidsare in some situations.
They didn't pick to be there andthe moms, they aren't there
going.
Oh, I don't think I want tofeed my kids today.
(34:06):
I don't pick to be there.
And the moms?
They aren't there going.
Oh, I don't think I want tofeed my kids today.
I don't think that's the case.
They want to do good.
That's there, and so we'retrying to give them the tools to
make that happen.
And when they see kids likeBrody and Natalie come alongside
a group of people and be like,wow, there's kids that care
about us, and then we get totell them the story about how
(34:26):
this comes together, they'relike oh, my goodness, there
really is hope.
Right, that's what we're doing.
We're turning hunger into hope.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
And I wouldn't doubt that either Natalie or Brody,
maybe sometime in the futureknock on the Feed my Starving
Children door and say can I joinyour team?
Wow, powerful.
We're speaking with Andy Carr,vp of Marketing from Feed my
Starving Children today and,andy, we have a clip of Andy on
location, andy in Jamaica, and Iguess you were in a fancy
(34:56):
kitchen there that preps all theManipac meals and just makes
magic happen.
Let's take a look.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Well, I got to tell you, being down here in Jamaica
and seeing firsthand the peoplethat are using these Manipac
meals the Manipac meals thatvolunteers and donors came
together on that side of the bagto be able to put this food
into these bags.
And this is part of our machinepack that came down here and
provides the vitamins,vegetables, soy and rice and to
(35:26):
see where they are serving thehomeless community here in
Jamaica.
It is an absolute, just joy.
And to see all the staff thatare passionate about helping
people in their community andthey've taken all these local
ingredients.
I mean you've got vegetablesand coconut milk and all kinds
of just spices and flavoringthat's going to be added to this
(35:48):
man pack so that the people onthe streets can have dignity.
They're not just getting anyold food, they're getting
special food.
I got to tell you as much lovethat goes into this bag.
What is happening here has justbeen a joy.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
If I list the ingredients for you once again
vitamins, vegetables, vegetables, soy and rice.
I think andy carr can putsomething together.
And please, at the end, at theend of the day, I want to hear
you.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Yeah, man, you betcha yeah, man, you betcha, we, we,
uh, we experienced that yaman,all the all over the place and
uh, and I, I told all all thosejamaican folks that, uh, I want
to, I want to teach them how todo it.
The Minnesota style so youbetcha, is a big Minnesota
phrase.
You know that we're known andkind of made fun of, and so I
(36:33):
said we got to add that on, andso by the end of our time
together they were saying I saiddo you guys like Manipec?
Yeah, man, you betcha.
Thank you guys, it's a greatpartnership, as you said.
Uh, you know, kind of at the top, the impact that food for the
poor has.
Uh, I'm blessed to have been toJamaica a couple of times now
and uh hope to make it a regularstop as I get to go out and
(36:54):
visit with folks uh across theglobe, uh, that we see the
impact.
But I've also seen you inaction in other countries uh,
and and walked with uh, yourleadership and every person.
I've been in your headquartersdown there, been out on events
with you guys, and we're alignedbecause of Jesus and the heart
to help people.
We don't have any people in anyof these places.
(37:16):
We ask people for them tosupport us so that we can
support you.
We're really good at findingfolks like Food for the Poor
that are out there in thetrenches with just the love of
Jesus, and we want to give themthe tools so they can go further
, faster and pour into thepeople with basic needs.
They say an empty stomach hasno ears and so the opportunity
(37:41):
to share Christ.
You meet their physical needsand they're like why are you
guys doing this?
And then you get to say it'sbecause of this amazing guy.
You need to meet him.
His name's Jesus.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Amen, I want to end there, but we usually always end
on a positive note.
He had a plethora of positivenotes beforehand, so I just feel
bad asking you, andy you havethe last word today and please
provide us a positive note forthe day.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
You know, the positive note for today is there
right now.
Listen, listen.
Do you hear that?
No, no, you're listening withyour ears.
Okay, listen with your heartfor a second.
Do you hear that?
That's the cry of a momsomewhere across the globe right
(38:32):
now?
Do you hear her?
She's saying God, I can't feedmy kids.
What am I going to do?
Can you hear that?
Now, listen, god's got aresponse.
God's got a response becauseyou heard that, and the response
and a positive note is you cando something about it.
(38:53):
Go help food for the poor.
Come back meals with me, mystarving children.
The positive note is you can dosomething about it and God is
going to do it through you.
He wanted you to hear thatprayer so that he can use you in
a simple way and, if nothingelse, would you say a prayer for
that mom right now, because youare what God has chosen to hear
(39:16):
that today, and if that isn'tpositive, I don't know what is.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
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arises when we share food withothers.
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Speaker 1 (00:49):
Hey guys, it's Giving Tuesday and what an amazing
Thanksgiving we all had, right.
Well, we have an amazingepisode that was recorded not
too long ago with our friendsfrom Feed my Starving Children.
We actually got on a plane toRichardson, Texas, to meet with
the amazing team from Feed myStarving Children.
We actually got on a plane toRichardson, Texas, to meet with
the amazing team from Feed myStarving Children and it was a
party that they had going on atFeed my Starving Children when
(01:10):
we were arriving.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I'm pretty sure it wasn't for us, but it was a
party to feed families in LatinAmerica, the Caribbean and
throughout the world that needus the most.
So I hope you enjoy thisepisode with our friends from
Feed my Starving Children.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
So let's a big shout out to our friends at the
Richardson Distribution Centerfor Feed my Starving Children.
Larissa, the amazing team from.
Feed my Starving Children.
Richardson, that's a commonname to us here at Food for the
Poor, but probably for many ofyou, if you've been living on
(01:45):
the fourth rock from the sun,the third rock from the sun, you
don't know about Feed myStarving Children.
Where have you been?
These guys took us on anamazing tour of their facility.
We'll talk a little bit aboutthe organization, but I was just
amazed by the fact that when wewere there, we got there and
they were so gracious to kind ofwalk us around, because we've
(02:06):
been involved with Feed myStarving Children here at Food
for the Poor for wow, almost,you know, more than 15 years.
But what is really cool is Isaw on the wall Luke, chapter 1,
verse 37.
For nothing is impossible withGod.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I loved it Right, I loved it.
I felt like I was coming out ofa locker room.
Yes, like a, you know, abasketball locker room a
football locker room, a soccerlocker room, nothing is
impossible.
And everybody's smacking thesign and saying, yes, I get it,
and following those wordscompletely, totally.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
And then of course, the dozens of elementary school
kids on a field trip.
That was amazing.
To pack food, I mean like, okay, so you talk about your.
I'm going to give you a second.
I want you to tell me yourquickly your best field trip
ever in elementary school.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
We went to all right.
So I lived in South Florida allmy life.
Yep Grew up, school, all thethings.
So Everglades the Evergladeswas the one thing I mean,
because it's just, it'sbountiful, it covers a lot of
area and just all the animalsthat are there that usually just
see in textbooks.
You know you're pointing at anibis, You're pointing at an
(03:13):
alligator, it's not the same.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
It's not something.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yes, when we went, it was amazing because they took
us up and close and personalwith an alligator.
It wasn't a 10-foot gator, itwas a 10-inch little baby gator
and the mouth is tied but nobodycan touch that thing, and I
think that was one of thecoolest ones, because I really
learned something.
To this day it stays with meand I think that was the last
time I really went into theEverglades as a student, as
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somebody who wants to learnabout the Everglades and its
history and what it really is,how big part of it it is to
South Florida, but not like this.
No, no, no, no, not like this.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Nope, nope, nope, nope.
And every one of these kidswere like screaming, they're
excited, they're like more rice,and you know, and more protein
powder.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Like Wall Street in the kitchen, I need more sauce.
Yes, chef.
Protein powder.
Like Wall Street in the kitchen, I need more sauce.
Yes, chef, I need more sauce.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I need more meal no, it was a buzz.
It was a buzz I mean itaffected me when we both of us
right.
And then of course we finishedwith that and I remember walking
upstairs and the cool part waswe saw the very first ever
Manipac rice meal.
It's kind of like when you gointo a restaurant and you see
that dollar bill.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
They were hiding it.
They should have put yeah, Iknow what you're talking about.
It's like their first check,the first time they get money,
and it's the first dollar orsomething for some.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Do you remember?
People autographed it, Whoeverit was that packed it?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
they autographed it.
We asked who of that picture isstill here.
Some of them I've moved along.
Some of them I've moved along,but it's a capsule, right, it's
a moment in time and a reminderof the generosity, the power
behind generosity and how itmotivates people to just get out
of their skin and do somethingfor others.
(04:58):
And they have that all nice andframed and right before they go
into the office, like youmentioned.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Right and you walk in upstairs and then, of course,
the thing that got me was weasked the question or I think
you asked the question how manytimes do they do this?
It's five times per day, sixdays a week.
I don't think there are a lotof restaurants that are open
less than this.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Five times, five packing sessions a day, six days
a week more than likely ifyou're listening to this podcast
at any point of the day ornight.
Yeah, there is probably asession going on, obviously
working hours, but they had ifyou listen to this already right
before bedtime.
Trust me, today there was, youknow, five different groups,
(05:42):
five different age groups aswell, because, because, like you
mentioned, when we went in, itwas elementary school kids.
I got a six-year-old at homeand I saw my daughters, you know
, just doing this with theexcitement they were playing
music.
It was a party, a party youdon't want to miss out.
And then, all of a sudden, wesee a new group, right, and it's
the local, I don't know, thelocal bingo shop.
(06:02):
Let out, right, it looked likemy ideas and my egos coming in
and working it the same way thekids did, with the same
enthusiasm.
The party, the noise, Just theatmosphere of giving is just.
It was palpable.
You were like I'm going to dothis, I'm going to get in.
I'm shaking my shoulders nowthinking about it.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And you remember, when I nudged you, there was a
corner of the group that waspacking and helping.
Everyone had differentassignments.
But then there was that groupthere that looked like they had
some developmental challenges,right, but they were there just
with all the rest of the kidsdoing their thing.
I don't know exactly what wasgoing on, but you obviously knew
there was something uniqueabout them, right?
(06:42):
And I was like, oh wow, howawesome that nobody's left out,
nobody.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
No, no, no, you are totally 100% correct.
Where it's, nobody is left out,and I just love the inspiration
that some of you know I'm notgoing to give away just yet.
It's a little teaser, rightSome of the inspiration that
some of the people that workthere were just oozing of with,
and the kids picked it up, theadults picked it up, everybody
(07:07):
in between picked it up, andthen one of those moments were
right before those packing eventends.
They're like all right, guys,don't forget your help today
helped, and they show thenumbers on the screen and I mean
I don't know if it resonateswith some of those kids, but I
know at least out of the 20,there's got to be at least one,
yeah, right, one that says wow,mom, you know what I did today?
(07:28):
Yeah, I fed a family in theother side of the country that
I'm probably you and I wouldnever be.
Yeah, but my hand was in it andmy hand is now helping somebody
else at the other side of theworld.
I mean, I'm excited about it,thinking of it once again and I
want to go back.
The idea is to go back andwe're going to help you go back
through this podcast and throughtoday's episode because it's
(07:51):
otra cosa, it's some other worldthat you didn't think was in
our own backyard.
You know, richardson, texas isvery near to us.
It might be far Lejos, peronunca a la distancia, a la
distancia, a la distancia, peronunca lejos is what I was trying
to say.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I'm trying to teach you that saying before I leave
today.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
So it's very far, but never out of hand's reach or
arm's reach right.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Oh man, I want to go back.
So here we go.
Our ministry partner, feed myStarving Children, just kind of
a little bit about them.
They're a Christian ministrySciences they've developed these
non-perishable meal packs thatcan be assembled, packed and
shipped across the world.
Wait, wait, wait, wow.
Let me say it again, I didn'tsay across the street, I didn't
(08:33):
say across the state, across theworld.
That particular day, I believeit was Tanzania, that shipment
that was going out going toTanzania, africa, powerful right
.
That shipment that was goingout going to Tanzania, africa,
powerful right.
They're partnered with fooddistribution networks that
(08:54):
extend the food but also extendthe gospel around the world.
I told you Luke, chapter 1,verse 37, right there up on the
wall.
And most recently our work withFeed my Starving Children here
at Food for the Poor came in theform of sending food, and of
course we do so much.
But I remember specificallysending food into war-torn
(09:14):
Ukraine.
I mean it was a very touchingtime for us because Ukraine's
halfway across the world.
Food for the Poor works inLatin America and the Caribbean,
primarily Latin America and theCaribbean.
But we couldn't say no when welooked at our brothers and
sisters in need, right.
And then we had a ministrypartner that was there on the
ground and I love a quote fromone of their executives who we
(09:37):
actually are going to befeaturing on our upcoming
episode.
But it said he said feed mystarving children.
Don't enter with tanks and M16s.
Get this, but box trucks,pallets of food and the gospel
for people in bomb shelters anddestroyed cities Drop the mic.
We could end the podcast rightthere.
(09:58):
We won't, but I mean but I meanpowerful, it's strong, powerful
, it's really strong.
And food but I mean powerful,it's strong, powerful, really
strong.
And food, by starving childrenand food for the poor.
Um, when their founder came, Iremember specifically, um, he
simply had one question to theexecutives at the time, more
than 15 years ago how can wehelp you?
They asked us that's wonderful,and you want to give them that.
(10:22):
That, that last step.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
This is my favorite.
Thank you for leaving it for me.
That was something else and, uh, this was as of 2022, so not
too long ago.
All right, more than 3.1billion billion with a b.
What meals sent globally?
Wow, okay, so the probably what?
The 30 minutes that we we gotto see the kids working on it?
(10:45):
Yeah, times that, like you said, five days a week, five times a
day, six times a week, 365 daysthat's how you get to 3.1
billion meals.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
That Feed my Starving Children has sent around the
world.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
So since I already said that number, that number
has changed, just to let youknow, increased.
Yes, for the good, for the good, for the good, of course it's
gone up.
Feed my Starving Children doeswhat their name entails.
Yeah, feed Our StarvingChildren.
Feed Our Starving Children, ourfamilies, families like you and
I, families that Food for thePoor has helped over 40 years
plus.
And Feed my Starving Childrenhas been along for the ride.
(11:22):
I Feed my Starving Children hasbeen along for the ride.
I mean for the mission to help,to help, more than just a
handout, right?
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
It's a hand up with these meals, and I love that
last line where Food for thePoor steps in.
Since the time that we've beenworking with them, one billion
of those meals.
Okay, just get your head aroundthat.
And it's not to break our armspatting ourselves on the back
here.
So, just okay, just get yourhead around that.
And it's not to break our armspatting ourselves on the back
here, but to understand theimpact of the partnership that
we have and why this was soimportant for us to meet with
them.
That one out of every threemeals in these, in the history
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of Feed my Starving Children,has gone through the hands of
Food for the Poor tobeneficiaries that Food for the
Poor serves on the groundthrough pastors, local ministry
and trusted ministry partners.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And it's making it easier for Food for the Poor to
go into these countries and sayyou're going to get help today,
tomorrow, next week and a wholeyear from now.
I mean I'm applauding loudly inmy head right now for Feed my
Starving Children.
That's why I wear the Be Kindt-shirt so proud.
Get some of that stuff on.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
You can see.
What is that honey?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I'm sorry, I don't know, honey, I don't know what
you're calling me honey.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
All right, all right.
So here we go Back toRichardson, texas.
Right, it's one of many packingand distribution sites in the
country, in the United States,and we met some really awesome
people.
I mean, to me not all heroeswear capes and these were three
heroes, that two of them whichwe met at a Feed my Starving
Children pack here in SouthFlorida, just gosh, it's got to
(12:58):
be last year already and wediscussed with them kind of
their passion for the work andit's become kind of more than a
job for them.
I mean, would you say thatright?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
It's two different people two different times.
One of them is, I would justsay you know Caitlin, right?
We're naming names now, ofcourse.
Yes, of course, caitlin andMegan.
Caitlin and Megan were very,very special to us when we were
there at the installations ofFeed my Starving Children.
Caitlyn would say she's in themiddle of her career.
(13:30):
She's already in the middle ofher life, looking for something
stable.
She lands with Feed my StarvingChildren and she is now part of
that family where Megan isstill trying to figure out life.
She's the younger one of thegroup.
You're 21 years old, stilltrying to figure out life.
She's the younger one of thegroup, 21 years old.
21 years old, still trying tofigure out where the next career
move is Come feed my starvingchildren and is guiding now, is
(13:52):
guiding her now into justmaturing within this company,
within this generosity humongousplace of giving and getting
people fed, giving of peoplefuture, and she is all about
that.
I just I love them, I love themall.
When we met them and we got toshare, we got to share with the
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audience right Right.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
So we asked them.
The very first question waswhat's your why?
Everybody has a why.
So we asked Caitlin, we askedMegan what's your why?
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Ben Lansalo Just seeing the change in the
volunteers when they comethrough and hearing their
stories.
I've heard countless stories ofwhere people have been, and one
that sticks with me is this oneman who packed at a mobile pack
and he said he actually washomeless.
So he knows how it is to behungry and not have food.
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And he found a church and theytook him in, cleaned him up,
brought him in and now he'spacking food for kids who don't
have food as well.
So my why is hearing people'sstories, seeing the change in
their lives and then hearing thechange about the kids and the
lives around the world and thenhearing the change about the
kids and the lives around theworld.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
But my really big why is?
I went to college and I had areally unfortunate year with
lots of unfortunate lifecircumstances and I decided to
take a break because I was notin a good mental space.
But during that time I reallyfound my love for the Lord in a
deepened relationship with Him.
I mean, I grew up in church butI never knew what an adult,
(15:32):
real relationship with Christwas like and I found so much
healing through Him after allthose circumstances and then it
was just so hard on my heart oflike doing something serving and
I had been praying to God like,what do you want me to do with
this break, with this time?
I feel like it's somethingserving.
And my mom, of course, was likeif you live at home, you have to
(15:54):
have a job.
So she's sending me all thesedifferent, you know, like
websites and job applicationsand stuff and I see, feed my
Serving Children.
And I was like, oh, I love Feedmy Serving Children.
And I was like, oh, I love Feedmy Serving Children.
That's what I did when I was akid.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Jules and Amy talk about their family service as a
lifestyle and how, as Amy saidin the opening, anybody can
serve.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Ben blast off Service was always a central part of
our home.
Something we do together andeven like last weekend, we were
at an event and my family waspart of the host team and they,
like we all, like servingtogether.
On every holiday we serve, andso it's always been a very
central part of our household isthat, out of the abundance the
Lord has allowed us toexperience, to give to others
and to serve.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
This past weekend in Fort Worth there was a man with
dementia also, and it remindedme of my mom and she has since
passed away but he was able tosit at the label table and label
and give back, even though hedidn't know what was going on
around him.
He was still able to give backand that is what I love about
this mission is anybody canserve.
(17:00):
We're all children of God.
Is anybody concerned?
We're all children of God.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
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Speaker 1 (18:23):
It's obvious to me when we were there that Feed my
Starving Children is doing somuch more than just sending food
to children and families.
It's changing lives, it'sfostering spirituality.
We here at Food for the Poor, ainterdenominational ministry
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that works across the line invarious churches and ministries,
but it's all for thepropagation of the gospel, it's
all for the building of ourspirituality.
I mean, matthew 25, 40 is thefoundational scripture.
How much more can you saybesides that that whatever
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you've done unto the least ofthese, you've done unto me?
And that's where we hear Amytalk a lot about the
spirituality of why they do whatthey do.
And I love this because, as Isat back, I heard of the
practical change that is takingplace in their lives through
these mobile packs, practicalchange that is taking place in
their lives through these mobilepacks, through the lives that
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they witnessed change.
But then I heard Amy, reallyfrom a place of a center, a true
north, if you will, ofspirituality, talk a little bit
about, well, her motivationspiritually to do what they do
at Feed my Starving Children.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Ben, fire up the engines.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
As kids are growing up, especially in the United
States.
We're given a lot, we have alot, and when we are given a lot
, a lot is required of us andkids just need to learn that
they can give back.
I have five kids of my own, Isee it.
They range from 10 to 24.
So I see all the generationsthat are coming up and just
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being able to serve and to beable to have that relationship
with Jesus Christ, like Megansays.
That is so important Because,just like Megan said, there is
so much going on in this world,they have so much to deal with
these days and just to be ableto give back is so special for
them and just it'll.
It'll stay with them a lifetimeto do that.
I mean, look at Jules Beenpacking since she was eight
(20:27):
years old it has stayed with herand so they come even once.
They're going to remember thatand they're going to want to
come back, andy Carr.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
VP of marketing for Feed my Starving Children.
This guy is funny and at thesame time I'm thinking to myself
if he ever does a podcast, Ithink that's direct competition
and I'm hoping we can beat thatcompetition.
But I digress.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
All right, this is what I want to do.
Once you get a chance to meetAndy Carr in these next few
moments, you'll probably wanthim to be a permanent part of
this podcast, but enjoy thismoment we had with Andy Carr,
vice President of Marketing forFeed my Starving Children.
What a guy.
Listen.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Well, this inspiration that I have here on
my t-shirt says be kind.
That is the one.
That's the number, probablynumber three, number four on a
lot of list of things to be apositive person on the next day,
but I want to join Andy Carr,vp of Marketing for Feed my
Starving Children today.
Thank you for joining us onthis wonderful day.
(21:28):
It's wonderful because you'reon today, that's right, welcome.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Well, thanks, guys, danny and Paul, it's an honor.
It's as we kind of started offtalking before we came on air.
You know, it's been a long timecoming, in the sense of I've
been down to your studios beforebut here I am in my office at
home in Minnesota.
But I think it just representshow connected we are across the
(21:54):
efforts that we're all out theredoing and sharing about the
incredible work of Food for thePoor, and Helping my Starving
Children is a part of that.
So I look forward to chattingwith you guys here today and to
all your listeners.
I'm thrilled to be a part of apartnership that has such
tremendous impact across theglobe.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Both Danny and I wanted to ask a very important
question, because we're going totalk a little bit about your
recent trip to our facilities inJamaica.
The bottom line is, and I'mhere wearing my shirt and the
question to you today is where'sour souvenirs?
I mean, did you bring anythingback from Jamaica for us, or
what's going on?
Speaker 6 (22:30):
I got a.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Jamaica mug here for those watching on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Anything Right?
Well, I didn't.
Must have been, didn't?
Javier and Karen come by youroffice?
And I mean I gave them an extrasuitcase full of Jamaican
coffee and Jamaican candy andall kinds of you know uh all,
all of the different, uh,jamaican spices.
You know, and so they might,you know.
(22:54):
Maybe they got held up incustoms because I didn't come on
to Minnesota, I didn't get tohang out with you guys down in
Florida.
So maybe we'll have to checkwith their maybe in their closet
or something.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
As my wife would say.
How convenient.
Yeah, I believe, andy.
Well, listen, you know,seriously, you know, we're just
really at in just absolute aweof the work that we get to do
together Feed my starvingchildren, food for the poor.
Just to give some statistics,this was in 2022.
(23:25):
3.4 billion for those of youthat did not hear me clearly,
that's billion with a B of meals.
Since the inception of thispartnership, where Feed my
Starving Children has sent out3.4 billion meals across the
globe and, of that, Food for thePoor has been a part of sending
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more than a billion of thosemeals into the countries where
Food for the Poor serves.
Would that be accurate insaying that, andy?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
That is accurate and breaking news.
As you quoted a statistic there.
From 2022, that number hascontinued to climb rapidly, and
just at the end of last year, in2023, and stepping into the
first part of 2024, we havecrested the 4 billion meal mark.
So God is continuing to provideand we are continuing to act,
(24:19):
and because you know there'stremendous need, global hunger
is greater than any time inhuman history.
The number of people on thisplanet that are in need of food
today, by sheer numbers, isgreater than it's ever been, and
the great thing about that isthis is not like we're searching
for the cure to cancer or anunsolvable problem when I tell
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people about how significanthunger is and think of it as a
disease.
We have the cure.
It is food, and there is plentyof food to go around for
everybody.
It's a matter of distributionand there is lots of reasons
that we could go into why it'snot in the right places, but we
know this, especially for kids,that we're not going to sit idly
by while that happens, thatthere's people that can't care
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for themselves or need a hand up, and so, with amazing partners
like you, food for the Poor,over a billion meals Think about
that.
That's a number that you justcan't get your head around.
But you know what?
God knows every one of thosekids and those people that have
received that bowl of foodbecause of your actions and the
actions of the people that comealongside of us.
So we have the cure.
(25:26):
Don't sit idly by.
Act now, because we can helppeople.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Powerful.
You know, one of the things welove is the versatility of these
Manipac meals, also for thefamilies You're talking about
just in your trip to Jamaica andwe're not even going back to
other places that you've beenaround the world but Manipac
Meals in communities feeding innutritional centers, homeless on
the streets, those who arechildren of special needs, every
(25:52):
case, every condition andalmost every environment.
This isn't a one-size-fits-allwith these Manipac Meals,
because it truly is crossing orexpanding its reach into
wherever someone has a need.
As you said, no communicablediseases, no genetic disorders,
it's just hunger and food.
(26:13):
Am I missing anything?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
No, you're not.
It's that simple, paul.
I mean, and it's an issue thatI think a lot of people kind of
look out their window in theWest, or in the US in particular
, and they see food insecurity,they see people that might have
needs, but we're talking a wholedifferent level of simply
(26:36):
people that have the ultra poorthat live on less than a couple
bucks a day, ultra poor thatlive on less than a couple bucks
a day.
You know, we have access andsafety nets in so many places
and I'll tell you, I can sayfirsthand, in Jamaica, food for
the poor is the safety net andso for us to help resource food
for the poor, if you took foodfor the poor out of Jamaica,
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there would be tens of hundredsof thousands of people on the
brink of disaster, would be tensof hundreds of thousands of
people on the brink of disaster.
I saw it firsthand.
You guys are that network andare that gold standard of help
for people at all levels of need.
That is just incredible, and myhat's off to the vision that
the Mahfoud family had andsetting the course in Jamaica
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that has expanded well beyondthat.
But firsthand, you have turnedthat country around and the
people in Jamaica are extremelygrateful.
Everywhere we went, when wewere part of Food for the Poor,
they were like wow, thank youguys for being here.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
There was something that was in the DNA of Feed my
Starving Children that we foundout, and we heard this, and we
heard it several times, and weheard it even in your trip to
Jamaica, and I want you toexplain this.
We turn hunger into hope withour two hands.
Yeah, tell us a little bitabout that.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah, you know, the beauty about Femalist Starving
Children is, it's a very simplething, as we've described the,
the solution of food, vitamins,vegetables, soy and rice that
come together in this bag, um,but, but what we found is is
here on this side of the bag.
I talked that that we feed onboth sides of this bag, the, the
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bag of food that feeds the, thematerial body, uh, in those
that are starving, um, but thepeople on this side of the bag
that are activated with your owntwo hands.
What's lacking in this worldtremendously is hope.
And who is hope?
You know?
Obviously, jesus, that comes inthe bread of life.
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But how you activate people tounderstand that is a way that
when people come together, theyput on those wonderful hairnets
which I?
Those hairnets, yes, I'mtelling you what I mean.
You know, if you, if you don'tthink that that you've had, you
haven't had fun until you put ona hairnet.
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
It transforms you, it does, it really does, it is,
and the beard one, if you rockall.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Both.
For you viewers here orlisteners, I should say that
don't have the pleasure ofseeing this.
Yeah, I am completely bald andI get to put on a hairnet and I
get to say that's a wishfulthinking.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I get to put on a hairnet, I get to put on a
hairnet.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Right, I get to put on a hairnet, but I don't want
to miss out on the fun Because,honestly, here's what happens,
guys.
Here's what happens when you,you turn hunger into hope, you
actively participate with yourown two hands and you see, what
happens often in our world, inour country, is people get
information coming in throughtheir ears and through their
(29:37):
eyes and it bounces around intheir head and they don't know
what to do.
Well, we know what to do.
Come and put on a hairnet, useyour hands, and what's going to
happen?
You're going to have joyexplode in your heart and your
spirit is going to be fed.
Now, here's a little secret.
I don't usually tell peoplethis, but when you put on that
hairnet, it's actually abrainwave inhibitor.
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It slows down your brain sothat your hands can activate
your heart, because your heartis where you will experience the
joy of joys.
And when you turn hunger intohope, because that hope and you
find out right when you're donepacking here's how many kids
that you've helped feed todayand that food is real and it's
going to go somewhere and, asyou mentioned the statistics,
(30:20):
it's over 1.2 million people aday that get fed those very kind
of meals that you have helpedprepare.
If that didn't give you joy, Iwould just say why don't you
just stop and say what is itthat I need in my life that's
going to help me experience thejoy?
And I'll tell you.
Helping other people is goingto do that for you.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
And some of those stories that I was telling Danny
the other day.
I mean it'll make the hair onthe back of your arm stand up.
I mean it's just harrowing.
But what really got us curiousfrom this trip to Jamaica was
the connection that came throughthe eyes of two teenagers, a 12
and a 16-year-old.
Now, before you talk to usabout what they saw and what
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they experienced, one of thethings that I can't I think we
can't get over is the fact thatI know what I was doing at 12
and at 16, and it wasn't goingto Jamaica to go feed some
families, you know, on my offtime, spring break.
Wherever, you know, whateverthe case may be, it was, it was
something totally different.
This is what caught ourattention.
(31:21):
So tell us a little bit aboutthese two young people that were
just amazing in their effortsto help families.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Yeah, two special people, Natalie and Brody, that
both came with their moms onthis trip.
And here's the cool thing aboutthem.
You see, when you participatein packing meals with Be my
Sturm Children, you can startdoing that when you're five
years old, and over half of ourvolunteers that actually come
and help put these mealstogether are kids.
These are kids that God isusing and, I believe, planting
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the seeds for a better future.
You see, these kids that haveexperienced this, Natalie and
Brody.
Natalie grew up here in theTwin Cities of Minneapolis.
St Paul has relocated recentlyto Denver, Colorado, and two
stories you know.
Also, Brody is from Fargo,North Dakota, and has been up
there where both of these placeswe do things called mobile
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packs.
You guys came and saw our sitewhere you were at in Richardson,
Texas.
But you've also seen when we'vecome down to South Florida and
done a packing event, and we'vedone multiple packing events
with food for the poor where wecome together.
Well, you see, Natalie andBrody, Natalie grew up packing
meals with feed my starvingchildren here.
When Natalie went back home toColorado the very next day she
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went to a mobile pack inColorado.
They landed at like midnightand went and packed food.
They sent me the pictures Hermom and Natalie.
They had pictures of her thenext day at a mobile pack at her
school, a Christian school outin the Denver area.
Brody, who has been packingsince he was five years old.
We did an event in January inFargo, North Dakota.
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That was the 10th year they hadpacked meals and it was a 10
million meal mobile pack.
We had over 27,000 volunteersover a 10-day period that they
rented out the Fargo Dome, whereNorth Dakota State plays
football, and the whole footballfield was covered where over
2,000 people at a time wouldcome and pack meals.
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And guess who was at every oneof those sessions?
Brody, why?
Because he knows the differencethat this makes and so he
wanted to be able to go see thisfood in action.
And so that's what both Natalieand Brody got to do and it was
wonderful.
Everywhere we went, the people.
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They didn't want to hear froman old guy like me that was
numbers and all this I do Right,yeah, I mean we, but that isn't
that our hope, that we're doingthe same thing where we're
feeding kids, because these kidsare in some situations.
They didn't pick to be there andthe moms, they aren't there
going.
Oh, I don't think I want tofeed my kids today.
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I don't pick to be there.
And the moms?
They aren't there going.
Oh, I don't think I want tofeed my kids today.
I don't think that's the case.
They want to do good.
That's there, and so we'retrying to give them the tools to
make that happen.
And when they see kids likeBrody and Natalie come alongside
a group of people and be like,wow, there's kids that care
about us, and then we get totell them the story about how
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this comes together, they'relike oh, my goodness, there
really is hope.
Right, that's what we're doing.
We're turning hunger into hope.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
And I wouldn't doubt that either Natalie or Brody,
maybe sometime in the futureknock on the Feed my Starving
Children door and say can I joinyour team?
Wow, powerful.
We're speaking with Andy Carr,vp of Marketing from Feed my
Starving Children today and,andy, we have a clip of Andy on
location, andy in Jamaica, and Iguess you were in a fancy
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kitchen there that preps all theManipac meals and just makes
magic happen.
Let's take a look.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Well, I got to tell you, being down here in Jamaica
and seeing firsthand the peoplethat are using these Manipac
meals the Manipac meals thatvolunteers and donors came
together on that side of the bagto be able to put this food
into these bags.
And this is part of our machinepack that came down here and
provides the vitamins,vegetables, soy and rice and to
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see where they are serving thehomeless community here in
Jamaica.
It is an absolute, just joy.
And to see all the staff thatare passionate about helping
people in their community andthey've taken all these local
ingredients.
I mean you've got vegetablesand coconut milk and all kinds
of just spices and flavoringthat's going to be added to this
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man pack so that the people onthe streets can have dignity.
They're not just getting anyold food, they're getting
special food.
I got to tell you as much lovethat goes into this bag.
What is happening here has justbeen a joy.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
If I list the ingredients for you once again
vitamins, vegetables, vegetables, soy and rice.
I think andy carr can putsomething together.
And please, at the end, at theend of the day, I want to hear
you.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Yeah, man, you betcha yeah, man, you betcha, we, we,
uh, we experienced that yaman,all the all over the place and
uh, and I, I told all all thosejamaican folks that, uh, I want
to, I want to teach them how todo it.
The Minnesota style so youbetcha, is a big Minnesota
phrase.
You know that we're known andkind of made fun of, and so I
(36:33):
said we got to add that on, andso by the end of our time
together they were saying I saiddo you guys like Manipec?
Yeah, man, you betcha.
Thank you guys, it's a greatpartnership, as you said.
Uh, you know, kind of at the top, the impact that food for the
poor has.
Uh, I'm blessed to have been toJamaica a couple of times now
and uh hope to make it a regularstop as I get to go out and
(36:54):
visit with folks uh across theglobe, uh, that we see the
impact.
But I've also seen you inaction in other countries uh,
and and walked with uh, yourleadership and every person.
I've been in your headquartersdown there, been out on events
with you guys, and we're alignedbecause of Jesus and the heart
to help people.
We don't have any people in anyof these places.
(37:16):
We ask people for them tosupport us so that we can
support you.
We're really good at findingfolks like Food for the Poor
that are out there in thetrenches with just the love of
Jesus, and we want to give themthe tools so they can go further
, faster and pour into thepeople with basic needs.
They say an empty stomach hasno ears and so the opportunity
(37:41):
to share Christ.
You meet their physical needsand they're like why are you
guys doing this?
And then you get to say it'sbecause of this amazing guy.
You need to meet him.
His name's Jesus.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Amen, I want to end there, but we usually always end
on a positive note.
He had a plethora of positivenotes beforehand, so I just feel
bad asking you, andy you havethe last word today and please
provide us a positive note forthe day.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
You know, the positive note for today is there
right now.
Listen, listen.
Do you hear that?
No, no, you're listening withyour ears.
Okay, listen with your heartfor a second.
Do you hear that?
That's the cry of a momsomewhere across the globe right
(38:32):
now?
Do you hear her?
She's saying God, I can't feedmy kids.
What am I going to do?
Can you hear that?
Now, listen, god's got aresponse.
God's got a response becauseyou heard that, and the response
and a positive note is you cando something about it.
(38:53):
Go help food for the poor.
Come back meals with me, mystarving children.
The positive note is you can dosomething about it and God is
going to do it through you.
He wanted you to hear thatprayer so that he can use you in
a simple way and, if nothingelse, would you say a prayer for
that mom right now, because youare what God has chosen to hear
(39:16):
that today, and if that isn'tpositive, I don't know what is.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Hey everyone.
Thanks for listening to Beyondthe Plate.
We love having you here.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Keep up with us on Instagram and TikTok at
beyondtheplatepodcast.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
And if you enjoy the show, don't forget to subscribe
to our YouTube channel and giveour videos a like.
Just search Food for the Poor.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Beyond the Plate.
Your support means the world tous.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
All right, folks, we'll see you on the next Beyond
the Plate episode.
I'm waving.
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