Check out this great article about our packing event at Queens University last week! 💙💚
https://www.queens.edu/blog/2026/04/21/queens-celebrates-annual-day-of-scholarship-and-service/
We have continued to receive great photos of SWH meals being distributed in Cuba!
This photo (or a drawing from a student at Union Academy in Monroe, NC) is from the town that was in the news recently where there were protests and they lit the communist office building on fire. The translation from our WhatsApp thread is: When we opened one of the boxes of fortified rice we found this beautiful message; Smile! We testify that in recent times this project has brought smiles to thousands of Cuban homes. Many thanks to all the “servants with one heart.” God bless you.
This photo is during the nationwide blackout, showing our meals moving on! The man in the center is Pastor Osmani Sosa, who spearheads our distribution in Cuba through Atulado Ministries.
From our partners at Atulado Ministries, regarding our latest shipment: The last shipment we had in motion was delivered. It was tricky with fuel issues [diesel is very costly, if it can be acquired at all], but God provided—again! Even with the situation in Cuba and the fuel delays, it took 44 days from when we left our warehouse [in Waxhaw NC] until we arrived at the church [in Cuba]. Incredible! God is so good! With this delivery, we’re now at 1,965,168 meals. That’s 9098 boxes or 327,528 bags of fortified rice.
Click for a most adorable Gracias from Guatemala! Thanks to Pineville Chuch!
We are excited to share photos of food packed this past summer by the campers at BeDoTell, a Baptist summer camp that meets at Fort Caswell, NC. The meals arrived safely in Haiti and will be distributed by their longtime partner Go Out Ministries.
Our SWH Leadership Team diligently worked this year to establish the values that Servants With a Heart strives to uphold. At the start of each meeting, we take turns selecting values and sharing examples we’ve encountered since our last gathering. This practice ensures that the values remain fresh and relevant in our minds. We are thrilled to share these values with you! You’ll notice the initial letters form a word that is very important to us. 💙💚
We’ve had an exciting few weeks here at Servants With a Heart. On August 16 we packed our 30 millionth meal at St. Matthew Catholic Church. Last week, we shipped a container to our partner Atulado Ministries in Cuba, and just yesterday a second container was shipped to Go Out Ministries in Haiti.
Thank you to all the volunteers and organizations who have packed with us since we started in 2011—without you it would have be impossible to pack our 30 millionth meal last month! That means a lot of people have received food and felt love thanks to your generosity and willingness to volunteer.
The container shipped to Cuba has meals packed by St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church in Simpsonville SC and St. Matthew Catholic Church in Charlotte NC. The meals headed to Haiti were packed throughout the summer by BeDoTell, a Baptist summer camp that meets at Fort Caswell, near Wilmington NC.
We are grateful to all the many volunteers who helped prepare these meals! We also appreciate the funds that were raised to cover shipping to Cuba by Atulado and to Haiti by the Baptist State Convention of NC. Without the help of everybody involved, we couldn’t do all we are able to do! We’ve attached some photos below of each truck as it was being loaded, as well as our 30 Million Meals box.
My name is Taylor Grant Chabot and I am part of the Ally Bank Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC) Enterprise Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Program team, which sits within the Ally Bank Legal & Corporate Affairs (LCA) organization. Ashley Reynolds joined our team as an intern during the summer of 2025 and immediately made an impact via her contributions, which included the organization of a “Giving Back” event for the LCA organization. Ally prioritizes giving back to the community and when Ashley casually mentioned that she held leadership positions in 2 different non-profit organizations, I encouraged her to take ownership of organizing a volunteer event for our team members.
We had 25 LCA team members participate in the event and packed more than 18,000 meals in 3 hours!
The SWH team did a fantastic job explaining the immediate local and international impact our efforts would have and took the time during our event to provide an overview of the organization, share their personal testimonies, and shared a video highlighting recent meal distribution trips, which allowed Ally team members to visualize the joy, nourishment, appreciation, and gratitude of those benefiting from these meals. The event itself was a well oiled machine! The SWH team has the logistics down to a science and did a phenomenal job explaining the process of meal packing, as well as explaining the importance of the ingredients, package weight, and boxing.
Energetic music played throughout the event and our Ally team members spent time in fellowship, sharing summer plans, learning about current projects, meeting new team members, and fostering a little healthy competition for who could pack the most meals during our event.
I want to personally thank Ashley for organizing this event and introducing our team to SWH! I am looking forward to future opportunities to partner with the organization, both at Ally and personally. Thank you, SWH team!
Today’s blog is by Laura Palmer, from the Young Men’s Service League
Young Men’s Service League (YMSL), Waxhaw Chapter was founded in 2021 and serves Union County, Charlotte and the surrounding area. Mothers and their sons commit to the national mission to assist, serve, and support those who are in need in the community, develop leadership skills among members, and promote mother-son relationships.
Among the 20 philanthropies served by the YMSL Waxhaw Chapter is Servants with a Heart. Over the past year, 55 mothers and sons participated in 5 SWH Impact Days during the ‘24/’25 program year. Mothers and sons served side by side packing meals for hungry children and their families abroad and in the local Charlotte area. A favorite among the Waxhaw Chapter, the SWH Impact event provided a day of service, fellowship and fun.
My son and I eagerly await the release of the SWH Impact Day schedule each season, as it is our favorite event all year! The impact that this event has on us goes beyond the scooping, measuring and weighing of each meal. By providing a basic human need to hungry children and their families around the world, we are contributing to their overall wellness. – Laura Palmer
My favorite part of Servants With a Heart is standing beside my boys, fellow moms, and the young men of our chapter, praying over the meals we’ve prepared—knowing that each one will bring nourishment to someone who truly needs it. – Becky Edwards
We are happy to share some photos from Guatemala, where food packed by Pineville Church in Pineville NC has recently arrived for distribution.
We are grateful for our partnership with Pineville Church; nearly 3000 volunteers have packed almost 800,000 meals with servants with a heart since 2016!
photos provided by John Pina, SWH Leadership Team and Pineville Church Member 💙💚
Here are some new photos from the distribution of SWH meals in Cuba via Atulado Ministries! We remain excited about this partnership and are thrilled that the food packed by volunteers is consistently reaching its intended recipients through the hard work of so many churches and pastors in Cuba. Thank you!
