Saying Grace Community Hunger Project: A lot of meals, a lot of work, a lot of love

Lily Grace Collins, 5, gets a little help from Curtys Quesinberry as the Spring Valley Baptist Church members fill bags with lentil soup mix for the hungry on Saturday. Lily Grace’s mother, Dorothy Collins, said she was trying to teach her daughter about helping people in need. “We’re doing it so she understands that other people do not have food and are hungry.” Renee Ittner-McManus SPECIAL TO THE STATE

COLUMBIA, SC

Spring Valley Baptist Church and the national group Feeding Children Everywhere partnered Saturday with 600 volunteers to pack healthy meals at Spring Valley High School.

The groups are working toward packaging 100,000 meals to be served in the Midlands as part of the Saying Grace Community Hunger Project.

The bags of all-natural lentil and rice soup mix will be distributed locally to the Richland School District 2 Backpack Food Program, Sacks of Love Ministry, God’s Storehouse, InsideOut of South Carolina, the Harvest Hope Food Bank and Community of Hope Food Bank.

This story was originally published August 22, 2015 at 7:28 PM with the headline "Saying Grace Community Hunger Project: A lot of meals, a lot of work, a lot of love."

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