Hundreds of volunteers from the Harrisonburg community and beyond will help out at a MobilePack event at 91短视频 next month, packing more than 100,000 meals to feed malnourished children around the world.

The 91短视频 Y-Serve student club is hosting the two-day event (held March 21-22) in partnership with the Harrisonburg  restaurant and the  nonprofit. 91短视频 students, faculty and staff, as well as volunteers from local church congregations, retirement communities, businesses and civic organizations will join together for the major meal-packing project at the 91短视频 University Commons.

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Brian Martin Burkholder, university chaplain for 91短视频, said he noticed an  in the local newspaper about the Tacos 4 Life restaurant鈥檚 opening and felt that its mission of feeding malnourished children aligned with Y-Serve鈥檚 goal of serving others as the hands and feet of Jesus.

鈥淎s a university steeped in the Anabaptist faith tradition, 91短视频 has emphasized companioning marginalized people and offering whatever resources we have to meet human need,鈥� he said. 鈥淭his is another way we can practice our core values of peace and justice and active faith.鈥�

91短视频 senior Halie Mast, president of Y-Serve, helped organize the volunteer event.

“This is a huge project that our service club has taken on this year, and it’s probably the largest project I’ve ever helped plan,” she said. “A lot of time, planning, and prayer have gone into this undertaking, and I hope that Christ will be elevated through this work.”

This event is part of a larger effort by the Arkansas-based Tacos 4 Life restaurant chain to pack and donate 10 million meals by June 2025 to celebrate its 10th anniversary. For every item sold at Tacos 4 Life locations, the company donates a portion to Feed My Starving Children, which is used to purchase Manna Packs. These rice-based nutritious meal bags are given to missions and humanitarian organizations in more than 70 countries.

Jeremy Hunter, operating partner of the Tacos 4 Life Harrisonburg location, said the 100,000 meals donated by his store for the MobilePack event at 91短视频 amounts to a $29,000 contribution to Feed My Starving Children.

鈥淚鈥檓 excited for us to bring the Harrisonburg community together to pack 100,000 meals,鈥� he said, adding that this is the first MobilePack event his location has partnered with. 鈥淵ou all at 91短视频 have beaten JMU to the punch!鈥�

Read more about the event in the Daily News-Record .