Numana

This morning Riley and I went to help an organization called Numana.  The name is taken from when God provided the Israelites with 'new manna' every day.  The organization brings food to the poor all over the world.  Our shipments of food will be going to the country of Malawi to feed children at an orphanage there.  We packaged 125,000 meals in just a few hours.

Riley and I helped out at Station One today.  Our job was to make sure the food was sealed correctly and flatten out the bags.  Then help load them into boxes when we had 36 bags ready.



Riley wrote sweet messages on the boxes and drew cute pictures.  She worked very hard to flatten the bags and was smiling the whole time.  Not one complaint!  The people working with us commented how well behaved she was and how helpful and sweet they found her to be.




Riley grew tired after an hour or so of helping and we had a bag of things ready just in case.  She had a snack and then read her reading books for school.  Then played on her iPod for a short time.

Whenever we reached a goal, the Numana Leader would announce from the pulpit how many meals we had packaged and then someone would use a large mallet to strike a gong.  At first, Riley didn't want to hit the gong, but later she changed her mind.  He had announced that any kid wanting to hit the gong just needed to tell him and he'd have them come up.






So when we got to 70,000 meals packaged, Riley went on stage holding the large mallet.  She was smiling and a little nervous.  He asked her name and she said it into the microphone.  Then he asked how old she was and she said that today was her birthday.  (It was actually two days ago, but trying to tell him that over all the noise and music and everything would have been difficult.)  He asked me if it was true and I just shook my head. She then had a very large "Happy Birthday Song" from the entire 600 workers in the sanctuary!!  Riley then rang the gong when we followed it by saying we had packaged 70,000 meals.  She rang it so soft that he had her bang it harder which she did.  She loved it!!

Later I told her that she got to play a percussion instrument.  We've been talking about those in class.  That made her very happy!

We finished packing the boxes and after three hours, went to pick up her birthday cake and head home for lunch.


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