Church volunteers meet Saturday to prepare 30K meals for African relief

BOARDMAN — A team of some 160 volunteers from 13 Mahoning Valley churches plan to package 30,000 meals in assembly-line style during a Stop Hunger Now event Saturday at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 119 Stadium Drive.

Ruth Brayer said last year she participated in a mission conference in New Wilmington, Pa., and a meals project was part of the event.

“I thought it was a wonderful idea for Youngstown,” said the Stop Hunger Now project coordinator and chairwoman of the mission committee at Westminster. “It’s a great hands-on project.”

Stop Hunger Now is an international hunger relief organization. The food will be going to Africa to help ease a terrible hunger situation there, Brayer said.

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