Mission Feeding Goal: $13,020.00 Achieved: $11,217.13

Mission Feeding Saves Lives

For almost 20 years, LIFE Outreach has been committed to feeding the hungry and impoverished of Africa. Reports confirm that LIFE’s Mission Feeding outreaches have helped save more than 6 million lives. By God’s grace, LIFE’s Mission Feeding program is considered to be one of the most efficient mission works in the world today.

LIFE’s mission feeding program focuses on 400,000 children in Mozambique, Angola, Sudan, and Rwanda. Now, a new challenge has surfaced, and LIFE needs you to meet this need. The devastation in Sudan has sent thousands into isolation and refugee camps. LIFE’s goal is to feed 25,000 more hungry children in the Sudan.

It Matters To The One Saved

Why am I involved in Life Outreach International as a volunteer fundraiser? My passion for mission feeding started approximately 6 years ago when I started watching their program on T.V., Life Today. I know this passion was put in my heart by the Lord, because prior to this, I have never even had a small interest in mission work and yet here I am. I am reminded of the story where a father and son are walking on the beach, the beach is covered with washed up star fish. The father reaches down, picks up a star fish, walks over and places back in the ocean. The sons says, what are you doing Dad, there are thousands and thousands of star fish, you will never be able to save them all. THE DAD RESPONDS, WELL SON, IT MATTERS TO THIS ONE.

In August 2007 I attended a Willow Creek Leadership Summit in Wichita, Kansas. One of talks given by Bill Hybels was on discovering your “Holy Discontent” and how to feed your Holy Discontent and not run away from it. What one area in your life is the Lord working, what is the one thing that the Lord keeps whispering to you? The one thing you feel COMPELLED to do. Mine was Life Outreach Int’l Mission Feeding, even more specifically, those suffering and starving in parts of Africa.

My pastor (Brent Clayton) recently said in one of his sermons that “God is not safe”. He will stretch us, pull us and place us in areas outside our comfort zone, if we ask Him to come into our lives and change/use us.

Maybe part of the answer lies herein. I am 42 years old this year and I started asking myself this question. If I died tomorrow what have I accomplished with the days the Lord has given me besides the routine of everyday living, working, paying bills, doing household chores, yard work etc.

Again, in a devotion written by Pastor Brent, scripture has on-going cautions about spending large amount of time and energy on things of little value or permanence. The only thing that lasts forever is Christians. What more could I do with my life of more significance than trying to raise money for starving children half way around the world.

Where are investing your spiritual gifts, money, time and energy? What is your “Holy Discontent”?

$ 30.00 feeds 1 child for a year, just .08 cents per day.

Thanks for investing your precious time to read this and may our Lord bless you for your gift.

I can be reached at the e-mail address below, if you would like further information, have questions or just want to send me a note.

PLEASE forward this to YOUR family and friends and introduce me to them. This will greatly assist me in extending my reach. I will gladly accept any 1 time gift, but I am in this for the long haul and would like for you to prayerfully consider adding this mission feeding program to your weekly or monthly giving after you have blessed your local church.

In Christ’s name I serve, Scott A. Bannister


s_bannister12002@hotmail.com

Every Day 30,500 children under 5 die of diseases resulting from hunger.

The staple of LIFE's Mission Feeding program this is a vitamin-enriched nutritional soup mix endorsed and often used by the World Health Organization.

LIFE’s food processing plants in Mozambique and Angola can produce up to 500,000 servings of this soup mix each day and keep it flowing to hungry little ones in remote areas.

$ 30.00 will feed one child for a year, not total child care. What more could you ask for, knowing that your gift saved the life of one child.