Fishes and Loaves Kids Service Project

Each November, we host a service project called Fishes and Loaves where our children prepare freezer meals for foster families. We partner with the 111 Project, but this is an easy service project you could do with your ministry too, no matter where the meals go! (Hint: Check with your Care/Hospitality Team; they’re always looking for meals to bless someone with!) Check this out to see a Fishes and Loaves event in action.

How it works:

• Collect offering from kids church for a few months, or use money from a designated missions budget.
• Use that money to buy the ingredients yourself. (Use a recipe converter to multiply the number of ingredients you’ll need based on how many meals you’ll make.)
• Invite children and their parents to the service project, then divide the kids into groups of 2-3 and (with an adult), let them get to work making their recipes!
• Freeze the meals immediately and give them to your care team or other ministry partner.
• It’s that easy! In just an hour and a half, 8 kids can prepare 9 freezer meals for families in need. I love it when kids serve kids!

This download includes: 

• Recipes for all ages (even the kindergarteners) (PDF + .docx)
• Instructions for prepping and promoting the event (PDF + .docx)
• Detailed schedule of the time with discussion questions (PDF + .docx)
• Recipe labels to put on the freezer meals (PDF)
• Presentation and social media graphics to promote the event (.png)

This product is a digital download, which means you will receive a link to download the files after completing the check-out process. Please note: It is too large of a file to view on a mobile device.

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