IRVINE — Eighty-hundred and fifty volunteers participated in a Just Serve event Saturday, May 20, packing 217,792 meals for those in need locally and globally, an organizer said.
The volunteers worked in assembly line fashion at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Irvine. The church partnered with the Power of Ten and Harvest Pack to host the event.
The church will ship 110,628 rice meals to the International Care Ministry in the Philippines and donate 107,304 oatmeal meals to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County.
The Shir Ha-Ma-alot congregation of Irvine also participated in the event.
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![Amy Brown and her two children, from left, four-year-old Celina and six-year-old Winston Brown help fill bags of rice benefiting Harvest Park in Irvine on Saturday, May 20, 2017. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)]()
Amy Brown and her two children, from left, four-year-old Celina and six-year-old Winston Brown help fill bags of rice benefiting Harvest Park in Irvine on Saturday, May 20, 2017. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)
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![Eleven-year-old Kallie Faust helps seal bags of oatmeal benefiting Harvest Park in Irvine on Saturday, May 20, 2017. Over 200,000 meal packets will be distributed to those suffering from hunger locally through the Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, as well as through the International Care Ministry in the Philippines. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)]()
Eleven-year-old Kallie Faust helps seal bags of oatmeal benefiting Harvest Park in Irvine on Saturday, May 20, 2017. Over 200,000 meal packets will be distributed to those suffering from hunger locally through the Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, as well as through the International Care Ministry in the Philippines. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)
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![Just Serve Volunteers, neighbors, friends and community members work together to prepare food packets for Harvest Park in Irvine on Saturday, May 20, 2017. Over 200,000 meal packets will be distributed to those suffering from hunger locally through the Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, as well as through the International Care Ministry in the Philippines. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)]()
Just Serve Volunteers, neighbors, friends and community members work together to prepare food packets for Harvest Park in Irvine on Saturday, May 20, 2017. Over 200,000 meal packets will be distributed to those suffering from hunger locally through the Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, as well as through the International Care Ministry in the Philippines. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)
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![Just Serve Volunteers, neighbors, friends and community members work together to prepare food packets for Harvest Park in Irvine on Saturday, May 20, 2017. Over 200,000 meal packets will be distributed to those suffering from hunger locally through the Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, as well as through the International Care Ministry in the Philippines. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)]()
Just Serve Volunteers, neighbors, friends and community members work together to prepare food packets for Harvest Park in Irvine on Saturday, May 20, 2017. Over 200,000 meal packets will be distributed to those suffering from hunger locally through the Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, as well as through the International Care Ministry in the Philippines. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)
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![Just Serve Volunteers, neighbors, friends and community members work together to prepare food packets for Harvest Park in Irvine on Saturday, May 20, 2017. Over 200,000 meal packets will be distributed to those suffering from hunger locally through the Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, as well as through the International Care Ministry in the Philippines. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)]()
Just Serve Volunteers, neighbors, friends and community members work together to prepare food packets for Harvest Park in Irvine on Saturday, May 20, 2017. Over 200,000 meal packets will be distributed to those suffering from hunger locally through the Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, as well as through the International Care Ministry in the Philippines. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)
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![Volunteer Todd Huisken leads a group prayer before helping to fill food packets benefiting Harvest Park in Irvine on Saturday, May 20, 2017. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)]()
Volunteer Todd Huisken leads a group prayer before helping to fill food packets benefiting Harvest Park in Irvine on Saturday, May 20, 2017. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)
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![Jenna Lines, right, smiles as she helps fill bags of rice benefiting Harvest Park in Irvine on Saturday, May 20, 2017. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)]()
Jenna Lines, right, smiles as she helps fill bags of rice benefiting Harvest Park in Irvine on Saturday, May 20, 2017. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)
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![Just Serve Volunteers, neighbors, friends and community members work together to prepare food packets for Harvest Park in Irvine on Saturday, May 20, 2017. Over 200,000 meal packets will be distributed to those suffering from hunger locally through the Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, as well as through the International Care Ministry in the Philippines. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)]()
Just Serve Volunteers, neighbors, friends and community members work together to prepare food packets for Harvest Park in Irvine on Saturday, May 20, 2017. Over 200,000 meal packets will be distributed to those suffering from hunger locally through the Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, as well as through the International Care Ministry in the Philippines. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)
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