We strive to take the gospel of Jesus "across the bridge" to Naples and the rest of the U.S. as often as we can!  This upcoming summer a group will be taking a trip to minister to children with special needs in southwest Missouri, and our missions team will be organizing projects to help feed the homeless in the Naples/Ft. Myers area. The past several years, groups have gone on short term mission trips to reach out to the Cherokee people in North Carolina.

Marco Presbyterian Church - Food Packaging Mission

The goal of the food packaging mission is to provide resources, peoplepower and money, to package and deliver at least 50,000 meals each year for families, especially children, in need.

General Meal Information

Every minute 12 children die from starvation. Marco Presbyterian Church is a part of the solution to world hunger. We partner with civic organizations and package meals that contain all the nutritional requirements undernourished children need for physical and mental development.

One food package contains six servings and costs $1.50. Each package is prepared in less than twenty minutes by adding it to boiling water. One box contains 36 packages, costs $54.00 and feeds 216 children. One pallet contains 33 boxes with 1,188 packages, costs $1,782.00 and feeds 7,128 children!

The food is a rice and soy mix fortified with 21 vitamins and minerals, 6 dehydrated vegetables and chicken flavoring.  This soy (52% protein) and nutrient rich formula reverses the starvation process and its effects. Many feeding organizations feed the hungry through commercial or processed food. The food has proven to strengthen the immune system!

Meals are packaged by volunteers from churches, families, youth groups and individuals.  The distribution of the food is done through local churches that ensure the meals get to the families and the children.

One food package contains the nutritional value to feed a family of 6.