Seed Packing

Every Saturday evening, I help out at the Junior High ministry at my church. Usually we go to service with the kids, and afterwards, all the leaders take a small group of boys or girls and expand on the service with them. But on Saturday April 10, from 5:30pm to 7:00pm, instead of having a normal service and small group time, we participated in seed packing. In the gymnasium of the church, where the ministry is normally set up, there the over 20 table set up as seed packing stations. At each station, there were people scooping seeding in to small envelopes and sealing the envelopes. There were also people who grabbed five packs at a time with a planting instruction sheet and brought them over to the baggers. The baggers put the sets of packs into plastic bags and taped them closed. The boxers then put all the bags in to a box. During this seed packing session, everyone participating packed 23 boxes of cabbage seeds. This will grow 15 million pounds of cabbage. Imagine how many people that will feed! These seed packs are going to poverty stricken countries that the church has partnered with. These packs will be given to people so that they can create their own garden. The food these people grow in their gardens will be used to feed themselves and their families. The excess can be sold to create a form of income. By giving these people these packs of seeds, we are not just given them food, we are giving them skills to increase their quality of life.