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Feed the Need With Us On Giving Tuesday

Each week Feed the Need Missions diligently works to meet the physical and spiritual needs in the communities we serve across Texas. Our sites meet at the same day and time each week to provide a consistent free meal to anyone who shows up. Beyond the offering of hamburgers and hot dogs, our volunteers and staff also offer each guest prayers and spiritual encouragement.

When disaster hits, we equip a core team with one of our cooking trailers and load it up with food and supplies, and they willingly go at moments notice to help those communities impacted by disaster.

How can you partner with Feed the Need Missions on Giving Tuesday?

Read more about us here. If you feel like we are a good fit for you, there are several ways you can give:

  1. Simply click here to make a donation online. We are so thankful for our generous donors. You can give this one time or even select a monthly amount for ongoing support.
  2. Check with your employer to see if they match donations. This can double or even triple the financial donations or even volunteer hours you generously give to Feed the Need Missions! Search here to see if this is something your employer offers or check with your HR department and ask about matching employee donations.
  3. Give through other revenues. Take a look at our Ways to Give page to learn more about giving to Feed the Need Missions through stocks, planned giving, and more. And feel free to contact us if you have any questions about these various ways to make a difference in our communities.
  4. Purchase our Give Back Beef. You can purchase one time or sign up for monthly subscription boxes at Community Gardens or from our online shop. Our Give Back Beef program not only gives you a great meal, but it also helps us provide hot meals to individuals in need in our communities. Every purchase goes directly to support our weekly programs, making sure we can serve hot meals, lend a friendly ear, and share the love of Jesus.

Thank you to everyone who has donated, volunteered, sponsored, and partnered with Feed the Need Missions this year.

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A Forgotten Community

Meet volunteers Ben and Debbie Ortiz. They faithfully serve weekly at our Stony Point site.

When asked about the impact on the Stony Point community Feed the Need Missions has had Ben shared, “Stony Point is a forgotten community and people do not want to go in there.”

“Not even the cops,” Debbie chimed in.

“Feed the Need Missions makes people feel like they are somebody and not forgotten,” Ben continued.

Ben and Debbie have lived near Stony Point for 40 years and are far too familiar with Stony Point’s reputation.

“We Christians have an ability to make people invisible, and so many have made Stony Point invisible. You can walk by people and make them invisible, walk by them like they are not even there”, Ben admitted. “Feed the Need Missions has changed that,” he continued.

“People are hungry for interaction, to be seen, to be prayed for,” Debbie added.

Serving has helped Ben, Debbie and countless others to see people the way God sees them and recognize opportunities to demonstrate God’s love to those we might otherwise walk right by without a second thought. Debbie recognized there were still people in the community that were not served and felt the Lord prompting them to go into these rougher areas.

“She [Debbie] reminded me we are forgetting the people in the corner. I have the ability to close my eyes to the things I don’t want to see,” Ben said. This opened a door to reach deeper into the community to serve people who are inaccessible to most.

One night after serving there was left over food and Ben saw an opportunity to serve those who most would ignore. He headed into that dark pocket with provision and purpose. Using the burger as a tool he offered a meal and prayer.

The response was overwhelming. Ben shared how one woman was tearful as she received the food and prayer. “The people that are bad when they see someone praying for them they’ll come up to you to get prayer. That’s what Feed the Need Missions has allowed me to do, to go into those spots in my community. It gave me a reason to go into those places to share the gospel.”

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