Growing Gardens, Feeding Minds - Lunch 'n Learn
Sunday, April 19, Noon-2:30pm
Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, Heartland Hall
About the Event:
A team from Growing Gardens, Feeding Minds (GGFM) will be coming to Grace Covenant to lead a kitchen crew in cooking a Kenyan meal for Lunch 'n Learn attendees. The meal will be like the one their school children enjoy every day. The GGFM team will teach about hunger and hunger solutions they are pursuing in the Kisumu area, and provide opportunities for attendees to join them and sponsor kids. Trish Tull, who coordinates U.S. support for God’s Green Resourceful Earth, will be leading the Lunch 'n Learn. Rick and Jo Randolph, GCPC members, and also part of the U.S. support team will share information.
About Growing Gardens, Feeding Minds:
Growing Gardens, Feeding Minds is the newest project of God’s Green Resourceful Earth (GGRE). God's Green Resourceful Earth is a project of the Africa Inland Church in Kisumu, Kenya. Its mission is to extend human and ecological wellbeing through tree planting, gardening, nutrition, and environmental education.
Growing Gardens, Feeding Minds is designed to feed a nutritious hot lunch every day to primary and secondary school children in western Kenya who would otherwise not necessarily have food in their bellies. A vegetable garden on the school grounds, designed to teach gardening to the children, supplements the meals of green grams and ugali or chapatis. In 2025 GGFM began in one school, but we are working to expand this much needed service to other schools. Many of the students are very poor, living with one parent, a grandparent, or even no parents. Kenya’s government provides buildings, equipment, and teachers, but school children’s families must find the funds for uniforms, school supplies, and meals. GGRE became aware that the students were interested in growing gardens for food, but few of them could afford the negligible $2/week cost to eat noon meals at the schools. Many were walking home in the noonday sun only to find a drink of water, nothing to eat. Education provides a path to success, yet hungry growing bodies must be fed in order to remain in school, learn, and thrive.
