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Feeding nearly 200K, all in one afternoon
Methodist churches join for Stop Hunger Now event
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Ryan Sanders, Stop Hunger Now assistant program manager, left, speaks to volunteers Sunday at McEver Road United Methodist Church in Oakwood. “It’s great we’re making 30,000 meals today, and it’s always great when a community of churches comes together,” Sanders said to the volunteers from area United Methodist churches. - photo by JOSHUA L. JONES
Ryan Sanders, assistant program manager with Stop Hunger Now, milled around the crowded room wearing a shirt emblazoned with “Rice Goes Last.” “We surpassed 7 billion people on the Earth in 2011,” he said. “Out of those 7 billion, 1 billion people suffer from hunger and hunger-related illnesses.”