Not waiting for Washington’s direction on how to aid in the fight against Ebola in Africa, American church groups are assembling ground teams and truckloads of food to send to the region beset with the virus.
Texas Baptists, for example, teaming with a Missouri firm, told Secrets today that they are loading up two enormous 40-foot-long containers with 280,000 meals each, or enough to provide over half a million meals.
The effort, also underway in California and the Midwest, is a bid by Christian groups to help those in the area who are starving due to the crisis and the unwillingness of some aid groups to help out.
According to the groups Texas Baptist Hunger Offering, Texas Baptists Disaster Recovery and Restore Hope, farmers in Liberia and Sierra Leone are being hit hard with the virus, and prices for food have escalated.
The Texas Baptists Disaster Recovery is filling the containers with 44,000 pounds of prepackaged rice/soy meals donated by Convoy of Hope of Springfield, Mo.
The food will be distributed by Baptist pastors in Liberia.
Restore Hope is supplying food, thermometers, antiseptic soap, water purification packets, Christian literature and Ebola prevention guides to orphan caregiver and widow households in Sierra Leone.
“This is a Kingdom response, and our prayer is that Christ’s name will be exalted in all that we do minister to the needs in West Africa,” said Ferrell Foster, coordinator for the Hunger Offering.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
