Blog - Feed the Need Missions

KERRY-LYNN’S STORY: WHEN A WEEKLY MEAL BECOMES SOMETHING MORE

Kerry-Lynn didn’t know where she belonged anymore. As a single mom navigating a painful separation, ongoing medical challenges, and the daily responsibility of caring for her girls, life had narrowed. Community felt complicated. Relationships…

Bastrop South, Volunteers

THE POWER OF SHOWING UP: RYLEE’S STORY

If you've spent any time at our Bastrop South Site, you've likely seen Rylee. He's the one quickly breaking down tables, picking up trash, restocking supplies, and doing it all with a smile. He is known around the site as someone who gets things…

Bastrop Area

A Halloween Service Opportunity

Trick-or-Treating: A Waning Tradition? Fall is in the air. Costumes, spooky decor, and candy assortments are now fully enveloping aisles of the local grocery store in anticipation of Halloween. A huge money maker, Halloween-related sales accounted…

Stony Point

It All Adds Up: Teresa’s Story

Have you ever been part of something that was larger than the sum of its parts? That is Feed the Need Missions. The parts are important, and they are obvious. Feed the Need Missions provides hamburgers and hot dogs to those in need—at…

Leadership

What Unifies Volunteers with a Vision—and One Another

At Feed the Need Missions, we often emphasize the importance of our mission, vision and values. But simply sharing the information with our team does not build personal buy-in of these things from team members. How do leaders cultivate this?…

Smithville

Full Circle: Cynthia’s Story

When It All Comes Full Circle At Feed the Need Missions, discipleship is at the core of our mission. We do what we do in order to create a guest experience that fosters the building of disciple-making relationships. One of the most exciting…

Testimony

Letting God Lead: Jace’s Story

It’s easy to do what we’ve always done. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” is all too familiar. Change can be incredibly hard, and stepping out into the unknown is often unnerving. Just six months ago, I was on staff at a…

Team Development

3 Tips for Disciple Makers

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very…

Leadership, Newark

Humble, Hungry Smart

Site Leadership at Feed the Need Missions The Right Stuff: What Makes a Great Site Coordinator For Feed the Need Missions, recruiting superstar leaders is serious business—especially when it comes to the site coordinator position. In considering…

Disaster Relief, Testimony

Disaster in My Own Backyard

Unfamiliar Territory My family moved to Texas a little over seven months ago when I came on staff at Feed the Need Missions. Hailing from the Northwest, we've seen little in the way of natural disasters. It wasn’t until a few weeks ago that…

Giving

A Hassle-Free Way to Give While You Shop Online

The Modern Shopping Experience Many of us can remember a time before the rise of the internet allowed us to shop online. Getting the best deal required things like checking a newspaper, cutting a coupon, or getting up before the sun to access…

Leadership, Stony Point, Volunteers

Charlie: A Story of Faithfulness

What is Faithfulness? What does faithfulness look like? While you could simply Google a definition, we have discovered that the most vibrant definition of this most excellent trait is best understood as it is lived out and witnessed by others. Faithfulness…

Bastrop Area, Bastrop South, Volunteers

A Hunger for More: Allen’s Story

When Feed the Need Missions began serving the Bastrop community more than ten years ago, Allen was among the first guests. To be sure, he was in need of the free hot meal each week. He was living on the streets and had no source of income. But…

LBA, Leadership, Volunteers

Beyond the Grill: Celebrating Servant Leadership

It's a late summer afternoon and a line of cars has already started to form. Busy preparations are being made in anticipation of something unusual. A truck and trailer are parked parallel to a very busy road. People begin to arrive and open…

Smithville, Testimony

Changed Lives: Tamika’s Story

Meet Tamika! She is a long-time Smithville resident and regular guest at the Smithville site. Tamika is one of many guests who have attended weekly site gatherings since the beginning of the site’s launch. Tamika is a dedicated guest. She…

General

The Evolution of a Mission Mobile

Every week, beautiful, custom built trailers roll in to sites across Texas, fully equipped to feed communities physically and spiritually. These are the Feed the Need Missions trailers. But it hasn't always been this way. We sat down with Jonah…

Bastrop Area